Module 11; WarGames

For this assignment we were able to watch some sort of computer related movie which did not bug me one bit.I decided to watch WarGames because I absolutely love this movie and this was the perfect reason to watch it again. This time I noticed a lot more since I was watching more for the assignment and not solely on entertainment.

The movie is about a teenage hacker who hacks into a top secret computer game which unbeknownst to him the game is actually a United States military computer programmer that is programmed to predict possible outcomes of a nuclear war. When the hacker plays the game and picks a country he wants to nuke he is actually playing in real life as well and putting a lot people and countries in danger and almost starting World War III as a result.This is something that it is not very likely to happen today not necessarily the hacker part but the computer programming aspect of it. However, I do believe it could have 100 percent happened when computers were just becoming popular, but not so today. When computers have been around for a long time you learn how they work and what to do and not to do. And, because of that a few years ago the real nuclear plan was drawn out never computerized. But, back then when computers were the new up and coming no one knew just how it could work even the government was new to everything and trying to learn the new technology. So, you store everything on this computer thinking oh it will be fine not knowing it could somewhat endanger lives if it ends up in the wrong hands if you're careful. Trust was a very deal back in the early 80's we are all working together and to have someone hack into your system not just anyone but a kid is a big deal. When the movie came out some kids got the idea to hack their way into the defense department computer system and succeed. Hacking has come a long way since then and it is taking over by the minute. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) the computer programmer in the movie is actually designed to withstand a heavy bombing and tracking Santa.

Social awareness was a big theme in the movie basically act in a way you know is right and accepted and know the consequences to those wrongdoings. Hacking into anything and gathering information you know nothing about or doing it to hurt others for fun is not socially acceptable when that person knows its wrong in doing so and can have some dire consequences for either parties. In the movie the hacker gets caught and ends up trying to prove his innocence that he did not do this on purpose and wasn't some type of "spy". Moral of the movie do not hack or (just watch what you are hacking into).