The Movie That Changed Cybersecurity: A Tech Focused Look At WarGames If you work in cybersecurity or artificial intelligence today, you have likely suffered through your fair share of absolute nonsense Hollywood “hacks.” We all know the tropes: green text flying across a screen at terminal velocity, a protagonist fiercely mashing random keys, and someone screaming “I’m in!” just in time to save the world, every time I hear or see that line I cringe the deep cringe of annoyance. It is just painful exercise in suspension of disbelief.But forty-three years ago, a movie hit theaters that didn’t just respect the foundational logic of technology—it actually terrified the leader of the free world so deeply that it fundamentally altered United States national security law.That movie was the 1983 sci-fi thriller WarGames, I was just finishing my junior year of high school already with plans to go into Computer Science, and I was fascinated with the idea of Artificial Intelligence, but in the 8...
The Movie That Changed Cybersecurity: A Tech Focused Look At WarGames If you work in cybersecurity or artificial intelli...
