WarGames is far from having the most ridiculous hacking scenes. In fact, if I had to write a list of technically accurate movies I would have it on my list. I

WarGames is far from having the most ridiculous hacking scenes. In fact, if I had to write a list of technically accurate movies I would have it on my list. It showed: 1) War Dialing - Dialing phone number sequentially in order to find machines that you could connect to. 2) Redbox-esque recording of tones from the locked door and playing them back to open the door. 3) Shorting out the coin mechanism of a payphone in order to make a free phone call. 4) Attempting to login with common system accounts and brute-forcing passwords. It was obvious to me that someone involved with the movie was pretty familiar with phone phreaking and computer hacking techniques.