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Dale Drew, chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, sees WarGames as a surprisingly accurate depiction of the state of hacking and cybersecurity in 1983. "When David, the main character of the movie, used his computer connected via dial-up modem to scan for telephone numbers to find other computers, and then brute force those computers for user names and passwords—that was all spot on," he says. "When David was confronted with a mysterious system that was unbreachable without the correct password, but did provide a hint to its owner, he performed pre-Google research to try to get inside the owner's head enough to guess his password. When it worked, it was a great victory for hackers everywhere."