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Subject: War Games (Spoiler!!)
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Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 20:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 22 20:57:00 1983
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From:  Greg Skinner 

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I would like to start some discussion about War Games, first
expressing my delight in seeing the movie -- it was action packed,
exciting, filled with believable characters and just a joy to watch!
However, there are a few (minor) details about the movie that seemed a
bit beyond belief to me.  I would like others' response to these.

1) (what was the kid's name's) ability to call the computer.  I don't
know exactly how the DoD provides access to its most internal
computers, but I would imagine that they do not have dialups for them.
(I would hope not ... imagine if someone actually DID start WWIII by
cracking an internal defense computer?)

2) The idea of a "back door".  Again, for security reasons, I would
imagine that access would be severely restricted and there would be no
access for a random user by supplying a random name.  Also, I was a
little surprised that the users did not have to supply passwords, just
usernames. 

Comments would be greatly appreciated.

--Greg  (gds@mit-xx.arpa, uc.gds%mit-eecs@mit-mc.arpa)
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