I'm currently watching WarGames on AMC. Nothing like it. 8-inch floppy disks, wardialing with acoustic coupler modems, voice synthesizers, stealing 6-character passwords, black-and-green screens and dot matrix printers, global thermonuclear war...ah, the technology of my youth. What a great movie...it embodied so many fears of that time. The emergence of computers in high places, mirroring what would eventually become the computer-driven doomsday scenarios that led to The Terminator. Nuclear war, the ever-present geopolitical demon of the Cold War, as evidenced by the classic The Day After. It's on AMC again tomorrow night; check it out for a blast from the past.
Even the scenes with Matthew Broderick hacking are pretty realistic. He finds his target, he does lots of research, performs some recon, and makes his attempts slowly and deliberately. That's the way today's best attackers still do it.
Great line:
Ally Sheedy causes Matthew Broderick to lose his game of Galaga.
Matthew: "You owe me a quarter."
Sheedy: "Sorry you lost your game."
Back when they were only a quarter.
Speaking of Ally Sheedy, she was SO hot. Too bad I was only 10.
"Greetings, Professor Falken. Shall we play a game?"
Flash-forward to my future with Broderick's line: "I don't believe any system is totally secure."
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