War Games Movie Review

Hsin Hung Wu

Professor Poirier

ACCT 3040

War Games

1. The movie war games is about David, a high school student who is really into computer games and computer technology. One lazy afternoon David finds himself rebuffed by a mysterious computer system that he accidentally calls up on his home screen. Because this particular system appears to offer an extremely diverse assortment of games (checkers, chess, thermonuclear war, among other games), David insists in his attempts to crack the system's code. When he does, all hell breaks loose. This computer got him into a top secret super-computer called "WOPR" which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3.

2. The security problem of the password would be the school staff should wrote down the password of on a booklet and place it in a safe place or a vault. And the system shouldn't be so easy to let everyone that knows a little bit computer knowledge can to break down school's system. The school should hire a computer engineer to create a system that is more difficult to breakdown, and it should have more procedure to enter to the grade page. I just think it should not be so easy to break in, especially by a high school student. There is also way too easy for David to connect to the WOPR, which should be the most advanced technology in the country, and it shouldn't be that easy to find a way to get connected. But, in my perspective, I think it's that easy to break in is because there wasn't much of antivirus software or antihackers around, because we are talking about the 80's the computer age just start to boom. And people thought that computer technology would grow too fast and computers might become too powerful and could take over.

3. David is a bright and smart high school student who lives with his nerdy parents in Seattle. According to his teachers, he has an attitude problem. David loves video games and computer technology. Because of the technology knowledge he has, he turned his bedroom into an electronics laboratory. One afternoon, David finds himself randomly connected to a mysterious computer system that he accidentally calls up on his home screen. Because this system appears to offer some diverse games to play, so David play the game that will jeopardize the world, which he has plugged into WOPR, the United States Air Force's supersecret supercomputer, and started the countdown to World War III. I think he is a realistic character, because a teen who is interest in computer could really become a hacker and interrupt to some secret system, include national sites. I think David fit the hacker profile, because with the equipment and the technology knowledge he has,