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my willing suspension of disbelief twisted and crashed into the river long before this
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.
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.
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.
More far-fetched is the idea that the computer's main interface would be a natural-language chat program.
Even more far-fetched is the idea that a remote terminal would be unmonitored by any security personnel and allow a user to impersonate a dead man with a closed user account.
But the biggest farce of all is that a war games program would be connected with a live missile launch facility in such a way that any scenario entered would be interpreted as the real thing. The boy and his sidekick, thinking they are simply playing on a game publisher's computer, simulate Soviet launches against Las Vegas and Seattle.
The movie ends with a "convincing" rationale, that the only way to deal with the risks of international nuclear war is to "refuse to play", presumably meaning that the US should have adopted a pacifist approach such as [[unilateral disarmament]]. Fortunately, [[Ronald Reagan]] did exactly the opposite and outspent the Soviets to win the [[Cold War]].
The movie ends with a "convincing" rationale, that the only way to deal with the risks of international nuclear war is to "refuse to play", presumably meaning that the US should have adopted a pacifist approach such as [[unilateral disarmament]]. Fortunately, [[Ronald Reagan]] did exactly the opposite and outspent the Soviets to win the [[Cold War]].