WarGames

In order to better understand a recent Dinosaur Comic, I sat down and watched WarGames tonight. I must say, this film does an admirable job of exposing NORAD for the slipshod operation it apparently is. I mean, just off the top of my head I can think of a laundry list of critical security breaches and serious design flaws:

• Entire computer system that controls nuclear missiles can be accessed via six-letter password from a public phone
• Civilian tour groups are allowed to visit strategic nuclear war room even when US is at Defcon 4
  
• Imprisoned fifteen year old was able to escape from the base by eluding single misogynist guard
  
• The same fifteen year old, under arrest on suspician of espionage, was left in a room by himself with computers that could access nuclear missile computer system
• Computer system that controls nuclear missiles equipped with powerful AI that can override human-inputted commands
• Computer system able to override actual radar data with its own fabricated data

And so on and so forth. Although I must give those early 1980s government devs props for inexplicably implementing natural language capabilities in the system. Passing the Turing test must have been, like, a C feature on that project.