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War Games


On today’s blog I’m going to talk about a movie released in 1983, War Games, which has been directed by John Badham.

The movie shows the story of David Lightman, a kid who is kin of a genius in topics of computer science, the plots consists of how this kid started to hack to the system of the US military by accident because he thought he was hacking a videogame company instead, when he hacks the system he discovers a simulation created by the military called Thermonuclear War, now, Lightman thinks is a game so he stars to play it, the “game” consist on two sides or teams, the USSR or the United States, and after choosing sides, the teams decides where to launch a nuclear bomb, all of this is situated during the Cold war so the simulation has  that theme; the problem starts when the simulation actually prepares to launch real bombs and Lightman gets caught by the government because of the hacking, then when they explain the situation to him he finds the creator of the simulation and then together they stop it.

I watched this movie during my class of Software Architecture, and I must say that I enjoyed it, I have heard about the movie before but never got the chance to actually see it, and I think I should have done it a long time ago, this movie shows one of the reasons of how important is the computer science in the actual world, unfortunately it also shows how dangerous it is, but like all the things that do good for the people, it can also harm them, nowadays the security is way more better and advance so that this cases never happen but is never to cautious to keep improving the security to really ensure it will never happen.

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