WarGames

In this post, I will discuss the movie that we saw in class: "WarGames" directed by John Badham in 1983. 

I'm really enjoying reading Ready Player One, the novel has many references, some of them are really important to the plot, one of them is the WarGames movie.
When I do not recognize any of the references mentioned in the book, I rush to Google it, that happened with WarGames, it aroused my interest and I planned to see it eventually and even more after reading that chapter where interpreting the movie is the challenge to pass the first gate.

I am happy now that I have seen it, the production of the film impressed me, the plot of the story is also very good. The film tells the story of David Lightman, a brilliant boy passionate about computers, a hacker, who accidentally and curiously discovers a system that catches his attention and that eventually manages to access it through a back door.

David begins to play, something he believes is a game, but actually connects to the WOPR system, which starts a simulation of a nuclear attack that alerts NORAD. WOPR is an artificial intelligence, which learns from scenarios, the simulation alerts more and more to NORAD and prepares a real counterattack. WOPR does not differentiate between simulation and reality, it tries to win, so it is ready to launch real missiles. To avoid this, the system must play tic-tac-toe to learn from the tie scenarios. Finally, WORP comes to the conclusion that there is no way to win and stops the attacks. (Uff! it was close)

The film was full of excitement and suspense, now I see why many young people of that time were introduced to the world of computers, to study computer science or to be a hacker. It was an extraordinary way to present to the world the scope of computers, computer systems and, of course, hackers.

I really like this kind of movies, to tell the truth, watching certain movies motivated me to be ISC, WarGames reminds me how incredible and powerful my career is.