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A chance viewing of WarGames by Ronald Reagan influenced US Cybersecurity policy -- (link)

Posted by Reagen Mar 2 '16, 20:55

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I'm presuming his aides kept him from seeing Ghostbusters the following year (www.nytimes.com)

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He also directed the pentagon to cover that exhaust port on the Death Star. (nm) - howie Mar 2, 21:33
Big, if true. -- nm - Spawn Mar 2, 20:58 11
- That came out too late for him to do anything about it. -- nm - Reagen Mar 2, 21:01 10
  - it says everything about Reagan (with an a) that this question only occurred to him after watching a teen sci-fact movie - sweet baboo Mar 2, 21:05 9
    - Reagan was Trump before Trump. -- nm - Mop Mar 3, 00:13
    - The web wasn't conceived until 1992. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 2, 22:14 5
      - But some of the Government networks were accessible by phone before that. -- nm* - nic to be determined Mar 2, 22:59 4
        
        "The web" refers to HTTP and the World Wide Web, which was first put online by Tim Burners-Lee in 1992 at CERN in Switzerland. - Beryllium Mar 2, 23:22 3
        
        That is covered to some degree in that article. -- nm - nic to be determined Mar 3, 00:31 1
        
        The IM, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 01:13
        
        (double post) -- nm* - nic to be determined Mar 3, 00:29
    - Imagine being in the room when he started yammering on about Matthew Broderick -- nm - Reagen Mar 2, 21:07 1
      - "he's in NORAD right NOW, you idiot!" -- nm* - sweet baboo Mar 2, 21:08
*sigh* - sweet baboo Mar 2, 20:57

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