Is the film war games based on a true story.? ?
I was working at the city newspaper when the film was released. It might not have been based on a real incident, but one did happen! The report came over the AP wire that they had gone on alert for a certain length of time; it was traced to a teenage hacker! I’ll see if I can find the story. // I haven’t been able to find that story; none of the names I’ve come across haven’t led to anything. I found this interesting article that would be interesting to explore further. Perhaps it was all of the talk about hackers that did inspire the movie. Try reading this one, titled “MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life ‘WarGames’ Hacker in 1980s”: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/mys… Similar coincidences have struck before: the wartime conference in Casablanca that suddenly made “Casablanca” notable; and Three Mile Island, which was a real-life “
