WarGames (2/11) Movie CLIP - Hacking the School (1983) HD

[@addictedtonotsmoking2893]

"They change the password every couple of weeks, but I know where they write it down." That's why he made sure to get sent to detention on purpose.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Never thought of that. 38 years too late!

[@LeroyBraun]

A regular Jason Bourne.

[@deltaray3]

And the principal isn't surprised to see him, showing that he makes a habit of it. Wow that's dedication to getting in trouble. Great character development on the part of the writer.

[@garethflattery3010]

@@Ingens_Scherzit’s never late it was just a clever hidden detail

[@jeffersonrundell7540]

@@Ingens_Scherz, I hadn't either. 👍

[@eltfell]

Ah - the sound of an 80s rock solid keyboard.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Today's kbds are toys!

[@xeronicus]

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 My corsair Begs to differ :)

[@moonscar119]

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 I have a mechanical viper keyboard... complete with programmable led backlighting

[@alerey4363]

clickety click

[@liamwatson5125]

Who could forget the sound of the buckling IBM Model M?

[@MinecraftGuy5145]

How could I possibly go to school on a day like This?

[@Horkslair]

Ferris Bueller you're my hero!

[@rogercolque]

thanks

[@LeroyBraun]

You're still here? Go home. . . .go.

[@epcotman32]

Life moves pretty fast you don't stop every once in awhile, you could miss it.

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

Actually legit one of the most accurate scenes of hacking. Kudos

[@michaelcole8196]

The school systems are still using these computers.

[@sophiebrown2622]

Are you serious or just exaggerating?

[@badmeme486]

@@sophiebrown2622 take a look at the IRS video by LGR. They're still using IBM machines with vacuum column tape drives

[@stoneyj1a1]

ok, not

[@Wes8761]

Up until 2009/2010 my high school was using an Apple 2. Then the shop teacher got it and he shows it every year at the end of the year.

[@tobiasra1]

One major U.S. university got caught using computer from 1976 for billing and accounting up until just a year ago. Can't find the article right now, but I am 100% sure.

[@willt9172]

This movie never seems to get old, amazing!

[@KandiKlover]

This reminds me of when I RATed the school PCs to get into the database and change my grades too lol

[@rj6288]

@@KandiKlover you never did that

[@actioncom2748]

That's because only the interfaces have changed. The underlying principle has remained the same. You log in, you pull up a record, you change the record, you save the record, you log out.

[@collegeman1988]

The computers are old, but the story is timeless.

[@nonplayerzealot4]

Lightman was the nerdy-but-cool version of Ferris

[@pugapino]

The most unrealistic part of the whole move this that Ally Sheey’s character Jennifer would be interested in a computer geek hacker.

[@Horkslair]

She was interested in him because he made her laugh in class at her teachers expense and took all the heat for it.

[@tommym321]

Back in the 80s nerds were cool. At least in the movies.

[@AUBCodeII]

@David Ferguson Based zeus said hi

[@eltfell]

@David Ferguson They would rather complain about the "gender paygap".

[@coolcat6303]

As my 80’s buddy Aaron once said to me “I get why he’s into her. But her being into him? I don’t get it!” 🤷🏻‍♂️ Haha

[@Scrapla1]

One of the very few movies that actually portrayed hacking legitimately.

[@johnlycott8538]

Not even in the slightest

[@rsmeaton]

@@johnlycott8538 Social engineering. Exploiting vulnerabilities (written down passwords). Dialing into a system during that time period. It's fairly well portrayed, imo.

[@johnlycott8538]

Perhaps for the time, yes. But that's not fair to say when you talk about it in general. Security was way less complex back then.

[@quelorepario]

@@johnlycott8538 it was portrayed accurately, period. You can't judge an 80's movies with the standards of the current state of the art, what do you expect? They don't have a time machine to know what might happen 30 years in the future.

[@Auxified]

@@johnlycott8538 What were you even thinking with this comment?

[@chrisklecker]

Probably the most realistic movie about hacking and computer intelligence.

[@piotrd.4850]

You know, actually quite recently model trained to play Tetris PAUSED THE GAME when it became unwinable....

[@Themoneystore44]

​@@piotrd.4850yeah that's cool but uh but uhhhhhh I'm uhhhhhhhhh I'm gonna say something disheartening to hear but...... WHO ASKED SON NOW IM BOUTA GET TO THE BLAZING ON UR AHH U LIKE "guys I made.a tetirs mod and uh 🤓🤓🤓" nah bro you built like A NOTORIOUS SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENT BRUH U MADE A TETRIS BLOCK OUT OF UR GRANDMOTHERS CRUSTED BUTT FLAKE U EAT CRICKETS FOR DINNER NAH U WRONG SON WHO ASKED? NO ONE? WHO ASKED? NOBODY.

[@spearPYN]

I always loved those scan lines on 15khz monitors of the 80's...

[@stefanieprejean6609]

Me too --- I thought I was the only one who even thought about that

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

Matthew Broderick is hilarious LOL

[@scottm8579]

I love how it shows David getting an F in Biology but a B in Calculus and a B in Trig.

[@FalconFlyer75]

David - "how can anyone get a D in Home Ec Jennifer - "how can anyone smart enough to hack a school's network get a D in English?"

[@xeronicus]

Sleep mostly...When the class bores you, you tend to not pay attention

[@BenCos2018]

@@xeronicus agreed I wasn't the best at english either tbh I only got a H4 in english leaving cert if only it was that easy to hack a school pc

[@liamwatson5125]

FalconFlyer75 David would have been sued by the FBI if he altered Jen’s grades. That is forgery.

[@FalconFlyer75]

@@branescan I know i'm just saying it would have been a good comeback both Home Economics and English are considered relatively "Easy" subjects where as long as someone is reasonably smart they should be able to sleep their way through it (getting an A might be tough but getting a C should take minimal effort) yet despite being rather intelligent he passed by the skin on his teeth, so if he's gonna judge her for being bad at home ec, she could just as easily judge him for being bad at english

[@gumlus1257]

He doesn't hav3 to be that smart though lol. It's not like he actually did anything he pretty much just stole a key.

[@ezrablock3218]

I think that Jennifer's emphatic demand for Lightman not to use the computer and cheat for her is reflective of the ultimate theme of the movie being that humanity should fight its own battles and not rely on technology to make tough decisions for it.

[@curtisberard7831]

Whst about when she asks him to change it later?

[@VRichardsn]

Or you are just reading too much into it.

[@alerey4363]

@@curtisberard7831 well, she's a woman and even when she's legit and don't wanna cheat her grade she also is volatile and hormone driven 😂

[@liamwatson5125]

She asked him to change her grade back, because she didn't want him to end up in jail.

[@mistermonologue2442]

Lmao that is not the ultimate theme of the movie and I don't think it was even inferred at any point. It's that Nukes=us dead=stupid Or just war=us dead=stupid Either way

[@diamonddog13]

So THIS is how he lowered his absences from 9 to 2.

[@Cooldog3798]

I absolutely want this movie on VHS

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Pretty sure I have it somewhere...

[@Watcher3223]

Of course, check out David's grades. He has a B for Trigonometry 2 and Calculus 1. The other classes, he's got two C grades, one D, and an F. So, he's good at math, signs of his talents with a computer.

[@TheBeresford7]

It's times like this that I miss about security loopholes back in like 2011 my best mate Matt found a loophole using CMD and sent a pop up message box saying " do a barrel roll " to EVERY school computer , within 5mins there was a knock on our science class door and it was the deputy principal and 2 IT workers....😂😂😂

[@MichaelMcClenaghan]

Good ol' netsend

[@erictaylor5462]

Aw the days when the internet was young.... Hacking was so easy!

[@rock3tcatU233]

Eric Taylor Today is not so much different, a large number of mainframes and computers of big institutions that you can find on the internet don't even encrypt data like user ID's and passwords...

[@erictaylor5462]

rock3tcat (ⵙⴰⵔⵓⵅ) Just don't ask any of them to play "Global Thermal nuclear war"

[@gregson99]

+rock3tcat (ⵙⴰⵔⵓⵅ) really? I would think everyone would have some sort of default encryption. Even cheap consumer equipment has it by default.

[@erictaylor5462]

Spill Burg Are you expecting the government to do the right and correct thing?

[@gregson99]

good point

[@cdevidal]

The kathunk-kathunk of his mechanical keyboard is so ASMR

[@flashkraft]

Mr Ligget is like: I remember giving this girl an F and referring her to a summer school class and I have the hand written test in front of me that says it was an F, but now the computer says its an A. Well I guess the computer must be right.

[@fubukifangirl]

He probably didn't have direct access to the main school computer.

[@JB-uv4hm]

Teachers are checked out 90% of the time.

[@Jharrison6014]

0:14 her look of I'm nervous, then his look of I know.. I'm clever...

[@phuckewe178]

The acting was just so much better in earlier movies.

[@sh0bez]

You're right, unfortunately :(

[@robertromero9488]

So Hopkins, Cumberbatch, RD Jr, Meryll Streep, Holland, Crowe, Denzel, etc aren't good actors?

[@aglayamajorem9546]

@@robertromero9488 OP stated "BETTER". Not that those ones weren't good. Although there are names you've dropped in that were actors from past 30 years that were in classic movies of all times so that doesn't counter well against what OP remarked on.

[@robertorr2687]

I miss the good 'ole days before Graphical User Interfaces!

[@mattrodgers2911]

What’s funny was that later on when she asked him to change the grade back, he said he already did and she was upset with the “grade” that he gave her lol 😢

[@RedMarioXIIINanaki36]

Jennifer: Well, whadid I get? David: You got a "D". *Nodding* Jennifer: You GAVE me a "D"?! David: No, you got an "A"! *Laughs* I was kidding.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

So this is what Adult Simba did when he was young

[@MegaSaginaw]

How could anyone get a D on Home ec!. LOL! She can't cook.

[@rock3tcatU233]

I would still give her the D.

[@RetroGamer-zz5jn]

your " D" is too small for her @@rock3tcatU233

[@user78405]

she burn too many toasts ...no wonder she had bad taste in relationship

[@stefanieprejean6609]

@@user78405 She had great taste in relationship, being with someone who believed on her and didn't want her to flunk

[@dorkmax7073]

To this day, randomly dialing numbers to find computers is called wargaming

[@PV1230]

wardialing

[@miblish5168]

I remember when this film came out. I had an Apple II and thought this was so high tech.

[@VampiresCrypt]

Can it play Crysis ? :/

[@sundhaug92]

theoretically: yes practically: no, no way in hell

[@pferreira1983]

+sundhaug92 But would you want to?

[@sundhaug92]

P Ferreira Of course not, the IMSAI pictured has many orders of magnitude less computing power than needed

[@pferreira1983]

sundhaug92 I'm talking about the game itself. Would you want to play that or Galaga like in the movie.

[@sundhaug92]

P Ferreira That wasn't clear from context. Despite my relative youth, I've played more Galaga than I have Crysis and I found Galaga a fun game so why not?

[@yaywhewclips242]

My friend had a modem with his Apple II circa 1987 and used to browse those BBSs the early internet web sites.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Your comment is nonsense.

[@jedijones]

My brother ran a BBS in 1987. People could only dial in one at a time. Usually just local people called in. I chatted with a lot of kids from around town that way.

[@e84fresh]

It would be funny if someone was still using this computer. Lol 😂😂😂😂

[@karlhans6678]

nobody does

[@jameshay7247]

It still exists.

[@ninja0329]

JAMES HAY doesn't mean they use it for daily tasks

[@jameshay7247]

I think she means that individual computer, used in the movie as a prop. That individual computer is still in existence.

[@ninja0329]

It says "it would be funny if someone was still using this computer" the person never stated whether or not it still exists it does lots of old tech still do the person said it would be funny if someone was still using it not saying "imagine if it still exists"

[@kipperbill]

that little cheat!

[@alansmithee183]

Bite the Big One Lightman

[@LB__1]

He had the gall to ask how anyone could get a D in Home Economics, yet he had a C in PE. How anyone could not get at least a B is beyond me.

[@JB-uv4hm]

Absent.

[@dodgymalaka7345]

When you bot the schools kahoot

[@danthegreat8411]

*"Hackerman"*

[@allanavalos4379]

James Halliday approves!

[@davidbolha]

10 people were more into Ally Sheedy than outdated computers. 😃😆

[@photophone5574]

That is actually scarily accurate. He dialed up a system and he put in a password. That could work back in dial up.

[@lunarfriday]

When this movie came out dial-up service didn't even exist yet. There was no security because they didn't expect anyone else to know that network even existed, let alone have the right equipment to access it.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

@@lunarfriday Umm, yeah. It did. Learn computing history.

[@j.trades9691]

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 He's right, actually; dial-up wasn't commercially available for homes in the US until the 90s; before that, it was mainly limited to the government, universities, and certain companies.

[@guillermobrandt291]

Fantastic movie. But I never understood why put a diskette if it connects to the school

[@britlaker]

Who would have thought less than 5 years after this film was made Mathew Broderick would go on to kill 2 people in a car crash due to his negligent driving. He paid only a $175 fine for killing 2 people.

[@paulkerrigan4051]

A pedant writes - his fine was 100 pounds, about $175.

[@britlaker]

@@paulkerrigan4051 fixed :)

[@omarreyes2206]

He is a pamper man

[@Daud76]

0:18 he hacked when in high school on his day off too! Save Ferris! 😉

[@MarkSkids]

If his parents had got him that car he wanted instead of a computer then this movie would have been very different.

[@jameshaggerty8348]

You never watched Christine? When it comes to rebellious teens, in the 80s they’re unpredictable no matter what.

[@jazzman92478]

This is what happens when you're born under a bad sign.

[@Inkling777]

Look at how slow words are painted onto his screen. That's how slowly dial-up modems used to work. Forget streaming video. Words would stream so slowly, you could read them as they came in.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Not just internet content (if you can call it that), but some programs and the computers itself could not do it any faster, sometimes because the refresh rate of the screen was limited, sometimes literally the processing power as a whole.

[@bennyfromthebroncs]

when you go to see how to fix something on your computer and your friends anonymous.

[@djjess9553]

I been watching this lately,1983 he knows more bout computers than I do in 24 😂

[@hongkongcantonese501]

Ally Sheedy was my crush. Ten years after this movie, she stood in front of me on the subway and I sent her a silent hello.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Too bad you don't have one of those voice amplifiers people who got throat surgery used. Her interest in the computer voice makes me think she'd dig it.

[@andrewomahony9260]

The remote user has the same password as the local user? Oh nevermind. :D

[@samuelclemons-d7p]

Someone should make videos of Mathew Broderick in every 80s teen movie 😅 sixteen candles, breakfast club, etc

[@BAB00215]

So this was Ferris buller 3 years before his big break he still acts like the same him he never changed

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

The plot thickens

[@johndeluca230]

Apparently, this was before Usernames were invented.

[@HeathenMetalhead221]

"I asked for a car I got a computer. Hows that for being born under a bad sign?"

[@generalfluffyproto]

By a 2018 technical standerd. That 1983 computer tech is considered ancient.

[@jacksong6226]

That computer isn’t even from 1983, its an altair clone from the mid to late 70s

[@wetwarefed]

the speakers are in the back of the pump me up boots -

[@fivehundrediq5212]

The OG Neo & Trinity

[@michaelscholl4116]

Save Lightman

[@TAXXfromTheLenz]

What’s funny about this scene is he also did this in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

[@totallyrevv]

Its not really hacking he just new the password lol

[@WhoIsRokky]

What kind of computer is it at 0:23

[@oliviamann556]

RTP I think it was a terminal computer

[@onlytrueanonymousfanszzzzzz]

I love this movie!

[@labpman7227]

He hacked into the school with no Internet

[@johnsmith651]

Great movie and Ally Sheedy was a total dream girl

[@cainster]

I think he was lucky that his parents never needed to use the phone. I can't seem them having a second line just for him and his room.

[@andrewomahony9260]

Why would the school computer even need to be connected to a phone line?

[@Horkslair]

So that they can transfer grades to the school district would be my guess.

[@JosephFlores-h7o]

Now we know how he hacked into ed rooneys computer.

[@randyduyck6254]

8 inch floppys, impressive! Bigger than our 3.5s!

[@Mister_Soyuz_on_YT]

Aaah-haaa! So, that's the scene from Ferris Beullers day off. That movie copied the scene from Wargames.

[@ManiaxOnYT]

Matthew Broderick was in both so it may not be a coincidence.

[@michaelmclaughlin261]

It was meta. ;)

[@P7777-u7r]

Proto internet being done via phone lines was wierd Im guessing the telephone companies were also very pleased (not) that their systems were being used for data transmission

[@NightfallVeilwing]

0:19 what is that green thing he put the handset on?

[@alh5238]

Acoustic coupler - were used before modems

[@NightfallVeilwing]

@@alh5238 Are they still in use or are they obsolete?

[@Gold586]

JOHN WICK... I saw him take out three people with PENCIL... do you get it pass word pencil!!!!

[@malakitaub9024]

I personally agree with Ally Sheedy. Hacking the grade database is never a good idea, and can lead to serious trouble!

[@月曜日にはペットボトル出す]

but can it run tic tac toe?

[@wetwarefed]

scene 0:58 is now - it's happening -

[@fearandloathingintraffic6679]

I love how he calls it hacking into the schools computer system when he had the password. He signed into the system.

[@usernameisuckatusernames7130]

Hacking is unauthorized access into a system. David had access but its unauthorized, ergo, hacking

[@fearandloathingintraffic6679]

@@usernameisuckatusernames7130 no that might qualify as lazy social engineering but a password grab does not hacking make.

[@Captain_Blue_Beard]

@@fearandloathingintraffic6679 it was 1983 probs the closest your getting to hacking other than taking a hammer to a hard drive

[@mikevanroy9356]

Your son has been absent 9 times...

[@fanaticalplel1003]

If only it was that simple to hack right now

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

Hacking into the school computer and changing your flunking grades can get you EXPELLED!!!!

[@nonplayerzealot4]

HuhAlready done...

[@thefirepolo25]

2:00 Really?!

[@TimonSuricata]

I miss those good old days haha

[@darriskinggamez4831]

He really cares about her

[@williamkirby1940]

Ally Sheedy was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute

[@flyguille]

That con terminal, really does that sound when receiving characters ? Or just movie sfx?

[@EctoJedi]

Purely movie sfx. I have it on good authority from a member of the Vintage Computer Federation, to whom I asked this very question: "It's a really common movie convention, but, man, in real life sticking a beeper on the incoming data stream would probably get real annoying real fast. (And if it were one "bleep" pulse per character you probably couldn't be communicating at a lot faster than 110 baud before it would start blending together into a continuous tone. 300 baud would result in about a 30hz pulse if you sent a single "tick" to an attached speaker, and that's around the bottom end of what humans can perceive as a deep continuous base sound.)"

[@JETZcorp]

Boy: I'm really good with computers. Girl: I suddenly don't like you and need to leave immediately.

[@markperacullo7541]

HACKERMAN

[@topologyrob]

Is this Hollywood's first portrayal of the Internet?

[@sandal_thong8631]

I don't think they used the internet. Just direct dial-up from computer to computer.

[@versetripn6631]

Ferris Bueller could erase Absent days. At least he preferred baseball to WW3

[@links5957]

Remember computer class my teacher show us this movie back in high school. Funny now it's in player one ready

[@ItsJustJimOkay]

Dat mechanical keyboard

[@sce2aux464]

He's taking Trigonometry 2 and Calculus simultaneously?

[@PV1230]

beast

[@YouthFreedomFighters]

And that is how Suzie changes Dustin's grade in Latin.

[@Joanafandrade]

I wish i could do this. It would save me lot of times 😂

[@FILNAT2011]

I sure a guy with his talent brains would not get a F in anything .

[@jamescollinson2456]

I agree with him. Jennifer is definitely an "A".

[@user78405]

only downside back then during late 90's ....is it takes phone line entire time when browsing the web...so sharing is a pain for entire family and data became more complex times goes on...and slower for dialup users....by 2000's thats when cable companies solved problem by using its system as traffic that does not used phone lines anymore....and faster speed can access data quicker now ....

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

I got a second line just for the modem. ☺️

[@dq1275]

Amazing that the cybersecurity and hacking principles depicted in War Games are still valid in 2023. This is an incontrovertible fact. Right of the bat, techniques used include "brute force attack, IAM Authentication Violation-Password Complexity, open-source intelligence, vishing, back doors, war dialing (whose updated variant today is war chalking of wireless access points.), tailgating (at NORAD), script-kiddie, suspected APT actor. Good stuff? Any other official cybersecurity concepts seen that I missed?

[@piotrd.4850]

Espeically, part about backdoors and password guessing and guys (Malvin & Jim) recongnizing list of games as those teaching basic strategy.... as in reinforced learning.