WarGames

recreation (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy

cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games

company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor

into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF).

He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear

warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper

that the only way to win the game is never to play.

IMDb .

(1999-03-08)