wargames

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wargames - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  WarGames
  Whopper
  
     <recreation> (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)