When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

[desatyr@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina
Remenber well, how jealous we were about his acoustic modem.

We didn' t even know about things like that.

And about the passwords....

nah, don' even mention it, or I' ll get nuts

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@nina_kali_nina that can't be happening, right?

[oggie@woof.group]

@ii_infinitum @nina_kali_nina

Honest to god what I 'want' is a sort of faux 'old school' setup in a few ways, and among other things a nice heavy clunker of a landline rotary phone (if it doesnt' weigh at least 7 or 8 lbs and couldn't be used as a murder weapon in a 1940s movie, get out of here), that I can drop onto that cradle which could ping to a pi to open the firewall for that machine, etc.

Just lots of silly retro/fun touches like that.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@nina_kali_nina "We built Joshua, from the hit film 'Don't Build Joshua'."

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@mmu_man from the script:

- General, we know they're fine men, but in a nuclear war we can't afford to have missiles lying dormant in those silos because those men refuse to turn the keys when the computers tell 'em to!

- You mean when the president orders them to.

- The president will probably follow the computer war plan. That's a fact!

I wept T_T

[ii_infinitum@mastodon.social]

@Oggie @nina_kali_nina I’d very much like to hang out in the office you describe. I’ve wanted an old school TTY for similar reasons, but the old western union one I found was way too heavy to sneak out.

[ptmesis@writing.exchange]

@nina_kali_nina Well, they didn't want to get left behind.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@desatyr @nina_kali_nina The only thing unrealistic in War Games are the huge screens and that the computer actually learns.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@nina_kali_nina
And some researcher had enough access to run a personal project directly on prod.

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@nina_kali_nina

Released 1983-06-03. Of course, a Friday.

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@nina_kali_nina Ha-ha.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina Just let em cook.

That's a good film too.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina

Actually…. as in admin admin?

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@xs4me2 no, just some random name

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina

Louvre's video surveillance system password was "Louvre"…

Can’t make stuff like this up…

[brewski@mas.to]

@nina_kali_nina

Me, today: You connected WHAT to an MCP service!?

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina

[nocturnalnessa@infosec.exchange]

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lmucho still cannot get my head around the idea of "negotiating" with a computer and gaslighting it with natural language, as a real hacking technique

[0mega@sk.zehnvorne.social]

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt Welcome to War Games 2026 🫠

[moonshine_fox@meow.social]

@nina_kali_nina