tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post6327178487356897086..comments2024-03-14T05:11:06.565-04:00Comments on The Knight Shift: WARGAMES and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983Chris Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-6468694472502661192008-06-07T14:40:00.000-04:002008-06-07T14:40:00.000-04:00Also WarGames proved that even computer geeks / ne...Also WarGames proved that even computer geeks / nerds could nail a pretty girl. :)<BR/><BR/>Wonderful film. I was hm.. 12 years old back then and I have seen the movie two dozen times - and have it on DVD.<BR/><BR/>I even tried to look for the songs from the movie, but that's hard to find.<BR/>I did get some LP with the text, but I don't have that anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-61684041930278606182008-06-05T12:40:00.001-04:002008-06-05T12:40:00.001-04:00Re: The Voice of the Whopper.I have searched high...Re: The Voice of the Whopper.<BR/><BR/>I have searched high and low for that voice myself. However...<BR/><BR/>In the writer's commentary on the DVD, thay said the voice was created by having an actor read the words in the sentence backwards (to avoid any inflections) and then processing the recording a bit to get the synthesized sound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-23260867062818929442008-06-05T12:40:00.000-04:002008-06-05T12:40:00.000-04:00Your name "Chris Knight" indeed reminds me to one ...Your name "Chris Knight" indeed reminds me to one of the characters of a really nice eighties films "Real Genius".<BR/><BR/>This one plus Wargames and Tron are my favorites of this soft of films ... and also a later one called "Sneakers".<BR/><BR/>Nice environment, nice effects, and possibly the right moment to release them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-50874035605122937152008-06-05T11:31:00.000-04:002008-06-05T11:31:00.000-04:00What was great about WG is that it showed two elem...What was great about WG is that it showed two elements of hacking. One, that social engineering is what leads to the biggest hacks. And two, that hackers have to do research to hack. You don't just press buttons.kuriharuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466511969578138882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-48462342505290099542008-06-05T10:40:00.000-04:002008-06-05T10:40:00.000-04:00Chris:Here's the link to my article on your post a...Chris:<BR/>Here's the link to my article on your post and Wargames 25th anniversary (in Spanish)<BR/>http://picandocodigo.net/index.php/2008/06/05/wargames-cumple-25-anos/<BR/>How about a nice game of chess?<BR/>Regards!<BR/><BR/>Fernando<BR/><A HREF="http://picandocodigo.net" REL="nofollow">PicandoCódigo</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-53104108891417004792008-06-05T10:20:00.000-04:002008-06-05T10:20:00.000-04:001964's Dr Strangelove was actually based on a 1958...1964's Dr Strangelove was actually based on a 1958 Book, Red Alert. Although the I think the 1964 movie, Fail Safe (based on the 1962 book of the same name) is a lot closer to War Games.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421466073822716958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-72672835110970343612008-06-05T10:16:00.000-04:002008-06-05T10:16:00.000-04:00Max Headroom was ground-breaking and has never bee...Max Headroom was ground-breaking and has never been appreciated for being as prescient as it was. Watch a few episodes, then turn on CNN or Fox News and tell me it didn't come true!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-48575605052446188972008-06-05T09:11:00.000-04:002008-06-05T09:11:00.000-04:00One thing that WarGames illustrated better than pr...One thing that WarGames illustrated better than pretty much every other hacker movie was the fact that while computers were becoming more and more ubiquitous, the general public using them were less and less aware of how the damn things actually worked. Average Joe Eighties might have easily known how to change a tire on their car, change a tube in their television, swap a belt in their washing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-29142888801165842422008-06-05T02:42:00.000-04:002008-06-05T02:42:00.000-04:00Great article.. It was Wargames that got me on my ...Great article.. It was Wargames that got me on my path of hacking... just seeing how David went from hacker to saviour planted a nice seed in my brain. Luckily neither of us ended up in Jail but these days I don't think I would have been so lucky.. Global Thermonuclear war vs "Possibly the single biggest threat to world peace since Adolf Hitler".... you have to love it really 8-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-65547982515731015332008-06-04T23:56:00.000-04:002008-06-04T23:56:00.000-04:00yeah it was actually Steve Jobs who said it duuuuh...yeah it was actually Steve Jobs who said it duuuuhAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-36956017197439336802008-06-04T23:09:00.000-04:002008-06-04T23:09:00.000-04:00Don't forgot to watch "Paper Man". It was before ...Don't forgot to watch "Paper Man". It was before "WarGames" and an excellent candidate for hacking movies. Think "Dragon Naturally Speaking" is newer? Watch the movie.<BR/><BR/>NoisomeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-2712886830420357782008-06-04T22:12:00.000-04:002008-06-04T22:12:00.000-04:00" Chris Knight said ... (5:06 PM, June 04, 2008): ..." Chris Knight said ... (5:06 PM, June 04, 2008): Plenty enough people are sending me e-mail about how Gates supposedly didn't say that. But I am also inclined to believe that there's some validity to the notion that he did say it, then denied it as you suggest."<BR/><BR/>So he must have said it because he denies he said it?<BR/><BR/>Have you stopped beating your wife?<BR/><BR/>Gates is a jerk, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-43735017986631623602008-06-04T21:32:00.000-04:002008-06-04T21:32:00.000-04:00"And Bill Gates once declared that the average per..."And Bill Gates once declared that the average person would never have a need for more than 640 kilobytes"<BR/><BR/>I despise Bill Gates as much as the next geek but there is no proof that he ever actually said that. Until anyone can come up with proof, the 640k quote is pretty much an urban myth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-29079800706291858252008-06-04T20:24:00.000-04:002008-06-04T20:24:00.000-04:00Why wouldn't Bill Gates have said that 640K was al...Why wouldn't Bill Gates have said that 640K was all a user needed? It was the maximum the processors of the time could handle. At the same time I was building business computers based on the Motorola 6800 microprocessor with 2 (very large) diskette drives [8 1/2 in. diameter] and 480kb of memory (640kb was optional). The computer did Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, text editing (no,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-24219626203730408112008-06-04T18:57:00.000-04:002008-06-04T18:57:00.000-04:00umm...Fail-Safe?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-...umm...Fail-Safe?<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_(1964_film)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-42873276429318982202008-06-04T18:56:00.000-04:002008-06-04T18:56:00.000-04:00"Bill Gates SAYS that he never said it. That's not..."Bill Gates SAYS that he never said it. That's not quite the same thing. Bill can deny having said it all he likes, but it has the smell of truth about it."<BR/><BR/>Of course it's the same thing: Bill Gates is just rectifying a malquoted statement. Once he rectifies it, it becomes truth, and whatever is true now is true from everlasting to everlasting. It is quite simple. All that is needed is Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12020574228014620933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-73236942659656614072008-06-04T17:06:00.000-04:002008-06-04T17:06:00.000-04:00Plenty enough people are sending me e-mail about h...Plenty enough people are sending me e-mail about how Gates supposedly didn't say that. But I am also inclined to believe that there's some validity to the notion that he <B>did</B> say it, then denied it as you suggest.<BR/><BR/>"NOTE: Greedo did NOT shoot first."<BR/><BR/>You should watch <A HREF="http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2005/06/forcery-quicktime-video-download-page.html" REL="Chris Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-81163268634524594142008-06-04T16:57:00.000-04:002008-06-04T16:57:00.000-04:00Bill Gates SAYS that he never said it. That's not...Bill Gates SAYS that he never said it. That's not quite the same thing.<BR/><BR/>Given that the original statement is consistently said to have been made back in 1981, way before usenet or even the internet generally, was established, finding an attributable source for the original statement is going to be difficult, and therefore very easily denied if (e.g) it was made verbally or only Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-54966692241679834252008-06-04T16:55:00.000-04:002008-06-04T16:55:00.000-04:00Ah, War Games. Great movie, and many a fond memor...Ah, War Games. Great movie, and many a fond memory did I rekindle last year while playing <A HREF="http://everybody-dies.com/" REL="nofollow">DEFCON</A>.<BR/><BR/>I still want to replicate whatever vocoder/modulator they used to do the computer voice from the movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-16488576173117602022008-06-04T16:33:00.000-04:002008-06-04T16:33:00.000-04:00NO! BILL GATES NEVER EVER SAID THAT 640 KB OF RAM ...NO! BILL GATES NEVER EVER SAID THAT 640 KB OF RAM IS ENOUGH FOR THE AVERAGE USER!<BR/><BR/>Read this post on usenet<BR/><BR/>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/msg/99ce4b0555bf35f4<BR/><BR/>again i am disappointed that one would use a quote that is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-53211442924961085722008-06-04T11:53:00.000-04:002008-06-04T11:53:00.000-04:00Yup, it's true that they're making a direct-to-DVD...Yup, it's true that they're making a direct-to-DVD sequel called WarGames: The Dead Code (but it's really WarGames in name only, because there are, as far as I know, absolutely no characters from the first movie involved.) The DVD is scheduled for release on June 10th, and also on the same day will be the release of WarGames: 25th Anniversary Edition 2 Disc DVD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-38973584911831614032008-06-04T11:02:00.000-04:002008-06-04T11:02:00.000-04:00"How was Dr. Strangelove about computers being at ..."How was Dr. Strangelove about computers being at fault?"<BR/><BR/>?!?!?<BR/><BR/>Computers were TOTALLY what went wrong in Dr. Strangelove! First there was the attempt to recall the planes, and then there was the Soviet doomsday machine (the "network of computers" as Strangelove even describes it) that bombs everything at the end of the movie.<BR/><BR/>Roxanne, yeah the original should stand Chris Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07772661137673181295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-69728236428755021992008-06-04T10:57:00.000-04:002008-06-04T10:57:00.000-04:00I love WarGames, and wish I would have been home t...I love WarGames, and wish I would have been home to watch it. My Dad told me that they were remaking it, but I think I read somewhere that they're actually trying to make a straight-to-DVD sequel ... <BR/><BR/>They just can't leave well enough alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-89520802264653788452008-06-04T10:46:00.000-04:002008-06-04T10:46:00.000-04:00How was Dr. Strangelove about computers being at f...How was Dr. Strangelove about computers being at fault?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115278.post-67909476330811918642008-06-04T10:07:00.000-04:002008-06-04T10:07:00.000-04:00Wow,I thought I was the only geek who watched last...Wow,<BR/><BR/>I thought I was the only geek who watched last night. :)sKevin Busseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348284292255381355noreply@blogger.com