February 11, 2009
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PlayIdentify the movie and the term that was named after these scenes:
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Movie: Wargames. Term: Wardialing: the process of electronically dialling a giant list of numbers (possibly in numerical order) hoping to find an open system (usually attached to a modem) where you can poke around.
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The scenes showing a computer dialing every number in Sunnyvale led to the term “war dialing”, and indirectly to the newer term “wardriving.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_dialing
The scenes showing Lightman’s computer dialing every number in Sunnyvale led to the term “war dialing”, a technique of using a modem to scan a list of telephone numbers to search for unknown computers, and indirectly to the newer term “wardriving.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
2 – War Dialing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
2. Wardialing
and wardriving, indirectly
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Term – War dialling.
War dialing
The movie is WarGames and I think the term named after it was the video game WarGames: Defcon 1
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Wargames and “Firewall”
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