Wargames

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  WarGames
       
           (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy
          {cracker} using a {wardialer} to try to break into a games
          company's computer and accidentally connecting to a {backdoor}
          into "Whopper", a ficticious {C3} computer at Norad (USAF).


          He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear
          warfare.  Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper
          that the only way to win the game is never to play.
       
          {IMDb (http://us.imdb.com/Title?WarGames+%281983%29)}.
       
          (1999-03-08)