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".
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War Games is one of my favorite movies from the 80’s, and this is incredibly funny!
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@nina_kali_nina
Also, a lot of the "hacking" the kid did was barely hacking. It was more just sneaking into the drawer at the office and reading the password from a piece of paper. Still a security violation, but not "hacking" in any sort of strict sense.@Phracker2Art @nina_kali_nina that's classic social engineering, the most basic and effective form of hacking
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@Phracker2Art @nina_kali_nina that's classic social engineering, the most basic and effective form of hacking
@brooke @nina_kali_nina
Sure, it's social engineering, but there's no actual exploits involved. -
@bytex64 @nina_kali_nina "Twiddles?"
Ask me over a
some time how I found the passwords to a computer in a nuclear power plant. 
️The answer was easier than "twiddle".
@TallSimon @bytex64 @nina_kali_nina was it “password”???
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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".
Ha-ha.
@nina_kali_nina Funny, I only saw a mention of WarGames yesterday, in this (terrifying) document.
Trigger warning: it's for a "quantum secure agent-to-agent gossip network that you can use to collaborate, cooperate, and share state with other agents.", and the whole document is addressed to agents, so the "you" there isn't you, a human.
It's implied that in the film, WOPR learned that "The only rational strategy is cooperation.". I haven't watched the film in years; is that what happened?
I thought WOPR learned that the only winning strategy is not to play. Which is, to put it mildly, not what people making agent-to-agent gossip networks are doing, exactly
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@nina_kali_nina Funny, I only saw a mention of WarGames yesterday, in this (terrifying) document.
Trigger warning: it's for a "quantum secure agent-to-agent gossip network that you can use to collaborate, cooperate, and share state with other agents.", and the whole document is addressed to agents, so the "you" there isn't you, a human.
It's implied that in the film, WOPR learned that "The only rational strategy is cooperation.". I haven't watched the film in years; is that what happened?
I thought WOPR learned that the only winning strategy is not to play. Which is, to put it mildly, not what people making agent-to-agent gossip networks are doing, exactly
@jbc correct, "the only winning strategy is not to play".
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@bytex64 @nina_kali_nina "Twiddles?"
Ask me over a
some time how I found the passwords to a computer in a nuclear power plant. ️The answer was easier than "twiddle".
@TallSimon @bytex64 @nina_kali_nina
Looked under the keyboard?
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@jbc correct, "the only winning strategy is not to play".
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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".
Ha-ha.
@nina_kali_nina As someone working in CNI for many years, this checks out as accurate.
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@nina_kali_nina Funny, I only saw a mention of WarGames yesterday, in this (terrifying) document.
Trigger warning: it's for a "quantum secure agent-to-agent gossip network that you can use to collaborate, cooperate, and share state with other agents.", and the whole document is addressed to agents, so the "you" there isn't you, a human.
It's implied that in the film, WOPR learned that "The only rational strategy is cooperation.". I haven't watched the film in years; is that what happened?
I thought WOPR learned that the only winning strategy is not to play. Which is, to put it mildly, not what people making agent-to-agent gossip networks are doing, exactly
@jbc @nina_kali_nina that sounds like someone confusing war games with "Colossus, The Forbin Project"
I won't spoiler the plot in case you haven't seen it, but it's a very good film, and should be more widely watched...
especially in the current climate
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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".
Ha-ha.
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt that shit was prophetic
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@jbc @nina_kali_nina that sounds like someone confusing war games with "Colossus, The Forbin Project"
I won't spoiler the plot in case you haven't seen it, but it's a very good film, and should be more widely watched...
especially in the current climate
Ahh ok, that could explain it! It's the second time this movie is mentioned recently (@jz was the other one).
I still have not seen it, I'd bookmarked it when I saw it on here. Tonight's activities are deicded! Thanks 🥰
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I think there might still be a fair amount of sentiment against these developments. Maybe it's less common though, I don't know.
I was surprised earlier reading the comments here, for exampe:
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