When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. 

@nina_kali_nina @glyph you were correct then, you couldn't have accounted for how dumb the world has gotten since
@cap_ybarra @nina_kali_nina infosec practices in the era of modems and plaintext TELNET were in fact pretty loose, what is depressing is the “flowers for algernon” shaped arc of the industry’s development