Did you think that Trump was the first president to see something on TV and then try to turn it into policy? Think again. In this regard, President Ronald Reagan was far ahead of his time, thanks to a movie called WarGames, which was about what would happen if someone broke into the country’s nuclear defense network and tried to play tic-tac-toe with the supercomputer controlling it.
No, seriously — what do you think National Security Decision Directive 145 was all about???
Hackerz, duh…
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