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'''WarGames''' (1983) is a typical liberal "[[anti-war]]" movie, that is, a movie with the premise that America is wrong and American government leaders are stupid. The movie begins with a war exercise to discover what percent of missile launch teams will fire nuclear missiles with no information other than the fact that the launch order has been transmitted. Management is disappointed to discover that 1 in 5 teams refused to launch. So the old system, which requires two men to agree independently that the launch order is valid, is replaced with an automatic launch mechanism.  

'''WarGames''' (1983) is a typical liberal "[[anti-war]]" movie, that is, a movie with the premise that America is wrong and American government leaders in the [[Reagan]] era were [[stupid]]. The movie begins with a war exercise to discover what percent of missile launch teams will fire nuclear missiles with no information other than the fact that the launch order has been transmitted. Management is disappointed to discover that 1 in 5 teams refused to launch. So the old system, which requires two men to agree independently that the launch order is valid, is replaced with an automatic launch mechanism.  

Matthew Broderick plays a teenager whose hobbies are video games (like the classic [[Galaga]]) and cracking into computer systems (in one scene, he hacks into his school's system to change his, and his girlfriend's, grades).  In typical liberal style, the movie takes as a premise that a crucially important military computer system would provide a list of its resources to someone who had not logged in.  But it also has the not so far-fetched idea that someone might use his own son's name as a login code. This is such an elementary breach of [[computer security]] that it provides redeeming value to an otherwise useless piece of liberal propaganda.

Matthew Broderick plays a teenager whose hobbies are video games (like the classic [[Galaga]]) and cracking into computer systems (in one scene, he hacks into his school's system to change his, and his girlfriend's, grades).  In typical liberal style, the movie takes as a premise that a crucially important military computer system would provide a list of its resources to someone who had not logged in.  But it also has the not so far-fetched idea that someone might use his own son's name as a login code. This is such an elementary breach of [[computer security]] that it provides redeeming value to an otherwise useless piece of liberal propaganda.