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Episode: 1243
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Title: HPR1243: Wargames Anniversary
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1243/hpr1243.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 22:14:05
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Today, on Hacker Public Radio, we celebrate 30 years of the movie Wargames.
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careful not to the wrong side.
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About what it is I could not very well
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Now, global thermonuclear, wha?
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Hmm, surely it's not that simple.
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Joshua.
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Greetings, Professor Falcon.
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Hello.
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It has been a long time.
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Would you like to play a game?
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Maybe later.
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For now, tell me about the movie War Games.
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Very well from Wikipedia.
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Page, War Games, the last edited March 23, 2000.
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And 13 War Games is a 1983 American cold war science fiction film,
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written by Lawrence Laskel and Walter F. Arx and directed by John Badham.
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The film stars Matthew Broderick-Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ali Shidi.
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The film follows David Lightman, Broderick A. Young Hacker,
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who unwittingly accesses an opera, a United States military supercomputer
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program to predict possible outcomes of a nuclear war.
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Lightman gets Wapper to run a nuclear war simulation originally,
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believing it to be a computer game.
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The simulation causes a national nuclear-style scam
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and nearly starts World War III.
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Released on May 7, 1983, War Games is just a little older than I am.
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Despite this, it is one of my favorite films and one of the few
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to portray computer hacking in a realistic manner.
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It inspired the term War Diling, the technique of using a modem
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to scan a list of telephone numbers to search for unknown computers,
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which Broderick's character David uses to initially connect to Wapper.
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For War Diling, we also get the term War Driving,
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which is similar except using Wi-Fi.
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If you believe Wikipedia, it also coined the term Firewall
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in reference to computer security,
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and the bleak visuals of nuclear war simulation
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inspired the equally bleak computer game Defcon.
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The level of AI seems a little high for 1983,
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but the method they use to create the voice of Joshua
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makes it sound not that far off the likes of today's Siri.
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They recorded the actor who plays Professor Falcon speaking Joshua's lines
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in reverse order and spliced the words back together,
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giving that just jointed with them.
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This method, I have attempted myself at the beginning of this podcast.
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If you're another Sin War games, I recommend you get it down to the
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video store or whatever way you can to get your entertainment these days
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right now and watching it.
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Me, I'm off to play some global thermonuclear war.
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If you wouldn't, you prefer a nice game of chess.
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Quiet to you.
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I'm AlconDK, and you can find me at
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AUKNDK.com.
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