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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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt you play an imsim with stealing computer passwords off unlocked tablets strewn carelessly everywhere as a central exploration mechanic and it looks silly. then ha-ha

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@nina_kali_nina So much movie hacking where someone just twiddles a few things and breaks in. Or an AI is defeated with a logic paradox. “That’s not how that works!” I’d scream at the screen.

Turns out that is how it works, reality just needed some time to catch up.

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@nina_kali_nina @glyph you were correct then, you couldn't have accounted for how dumb the world has gotten since

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@cap_ybarra @nina_kali_nina infosec practices in the era of modems and plaintext TELNET were in fact pretty loose, what is depressing is the “flowers for algernon” shaped arc of the industry’s development

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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".

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@nina_kali_nina

I really wanted that sort of modem.

I honestly, still do, but I have ENOUGH TECH TOYS. I don't even have a landline at this point...

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@karyxdragon @nina_kali_nina I started wirh a vic-20, 3.5k of memory. and ahl's basic computer games. good times. I do oppose the rest of the sentiment, though, deploy to production is a liberating thing, everybody should deploy to production. power to the people.

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@Oggie @nina_kali_nina I had one in my office for years. Haven’t been to that building in a while, but I should rescue it if it’s still there.

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@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

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@nina_kali_nina that can't be happening, right?

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@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.

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

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@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

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@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.

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

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

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

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@nina_kali_nina

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

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@nina_kali_nina Just let em cook.

That's a good film too.