War Games: Interesting Facts from the Flick - Mil-OSS

W H O O P S

Matthew Broderick
BEFORE HE GAVE US
-Ferris Belier’s Day Off
-Glory
-Godzilla
-The Lion King

Matthew Broderick
A FEW FUN FACTS
-Was first choice for Alex P Keaton
-Debuted with Keifer Sutherland in
Max Dugan Returns
-Shares birthday with Rosie O'Donnell
-Married to Sarah Jessica Parker

Ally Sheedy
BEFORE SHE GAVE US
-The Breakfast Club
-Short Circuit
-The Interrogation of Michael Crowe

Ally Sheedy
A FEW FUN FACTS
-Couldn't play baseball well enough
for lead in A League Of Their Own
-Dated Woody Harrelson
-Turned down Female lead in Top Gun

For the computers or for
Jennifer?

One sure way to get fired…

Inactive Modem
When receiving and sending text from his home
computer, the modem RD and SD lights do not flash.
On a 300-1200 baud modem, the flashes would be very
visible.
In reality, the computer was programmed to display
the correct lines regardless of what was typed.

Why did all voice synthesizers sound the same?

Security
‘80s Style
6 character password
easily learned through
social engineering
Classified system’s
modem publicly accessible
Open terminal in
classified area

With a door like this you’d think David would have
been caught escaping!

The Launch
Codes
Such a short step to Armageddon
Locking one character at a time
would have only taken 360 tries
to definitely find the code.
Fastest brute-force crack ever
The code keeps changing.
Is it CPE1704TKS, JPE1704TKS,
or FDH3723HCS?

W O P R
Reconnects phone calls BEFORE caller ID was invented
When David is communicating with WOPR, words appear onscreen
before he types them
Outstanding worthless light displays
Actually made of plywood!

Factual Errors
22 Typhoon class Soviet submarines are mentioned, however
only 6 Typhoon Class Soviet Nuclear Ballistic Missile
Submarines of were ever made. By 1983 only 2 had been built.

Yet More Factual Errors
The 43rd Bomb Wing was in Guam not Loring AFB. The 42nd Bomb
Wing was stationed at Loring.
The satellite early warning system (SEWS) is DSP, not DBS
42 nd Bomb Wing at Loring AFB in Limestone Maine
Built in the 50’s, active through Gulf War I

Still More Factual Errors
The satellite early warning system (SEWS) is DSP, not DBS
Currently 5 satellites in system, 3 active with 2 spare
In service since 1970 with continual upgrades and
improvements.
Detected SCUD launches in Persian Gulf War

What the ????
A tour escort asks a woman with a camera around her neck to
sit in the command chair. A visitor would NEVER be allowed to
bring a camera into NORAD.
The news story before the WOPR break-in is an announcement
for a prophylactic recycling center.
USAF Chief Master Sergeants do not typically guard logbooks
as one did in the Minuteman silo scene.

More what the ????
1980s DOD classified computers were not allowed
connections to modems or networks.
There WAS an early NORAD computer called BRGR (Burger)!
Some of the attack scenarios WOPR runs through are the
Gabon Surprise, Chad Option, and Bulgarian Clandestine.

Had WOPR been open source
The backdoor would have been found!

You don’t have to ‘piss on a spark plug’
for open source to work…