Data banks become kids' stuff
"It was really easy," said one of the perpetrators. "It didn't take too much intelligence to get into the things."
In the movie WarGames, a bright teen-ager uses his home computer to gain access to the key U.S. military computer. Inspired by the film, a group of youths, including Explorer Scouts from a troop taught and sponsored by IBM in Milwaukee, used their home computers to penetrate a dozen computers in the U.S. and Canada. Included were Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N. Mex., both of...
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