SELINGER@RU-GREEN.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/20/83)
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I stand corrected, many times over. The Dept. of Energy IS responsible for nuclear weapons, as well as nuclear reactors. The point that I was trying to make was, and is, that the newspaper report really did not go out of its way to distinguish between what actually happened, and the sort of thing that happened in Wargames. A reader could walk away with the impression that the computer infiltrators had come >that close< to getting hold of some nuclear weapons and setting them off. The radio news broadcasts I heard were even more guilty on this point, only mentioning that the teenagers HADN'T gotten to any top-secret information, when the truth was that they COULDN'T get to any, the top-secret computer not having any dialup lines. Marla Selinger [SELINGER@RUTGERS]