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From: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Wargames inaccuracy - maybe not so bad
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Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 15:41:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.437
Posted: Tue Jul  5 15:41:50 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jul-83 00:39:20 EDT
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I've been reading all the reviews of Wargames in this newsgroup, and it
seems that most of the complaints are about the little technical points
that they messed up in the movie.  But I have also seen sensible reasoning
used by people to explain them away.  The worst one, which seems to be one
of the worst, is the idea that WOPR asked only for a "LOGON", and no
password.  I watched for this and saw no reason to believe that this is so.
Joshua had no password, but this was a "back-door" and was probably not
subject to normal protocol.  The only other person we saw try to login was
McKittrick, but at that stage WOPR had destroyed the password file, so we
don't know that it wouldn't have asked him for a password.  It seems that
if you weren't allowed in, you got told right away, before a password was
asked for.  UNIX may ask you anyway, but all systems don't have to.  The
only technical thing that bothered me was the display on the kid's terminal
that continued changing after he was disconnected.