WarGames

The movie that we saw, wargames, was a little old, we could see many references to years back and look on with nostalgia at what once was. A much simpler time where you could hack into a government facility that has one of the most powerful computers at the time used for war simulations, with a simple telephone. The way the movie starts may not give the right idea of what the whole movie is about, a really tense sequence between submarine missile controllers ordered to launch a missile that ended up being a test, but they shouldn’t know about that, making the military think about removing humans for launching sequences. But then we are introduced to our protagonist David, who likes to goof of and hack into systems using a telephone, back when that was a thing. David hacks into the WOPR, a supercomputer in charge of war simulations. Thinking “Global Thermonuclear War”, David almost starts World War III by telling the WOPR to “play” with him. He is taken by the military, thinking he is a Russian spy. He then escapes and tracks down the creator of the WOPR to help him disable the machine. To do this, they make the machine play tic tac toe against itself thousands of times, so that it learns that sometimes it’s best not to play and stopping the attack on the Soviet Union.

Even if its an old film, we can still learn many things from it, the 2 most important things in my opinion would be that while machines and computers do make things easier, humans will never be obsolete, we always have somethings computers have yet to be able to recreate, and that is a conscience. Also, never use personal data as passwords, as someone could learn about that from you and exploit it for their personal gain