Telenet, the 1983 Hacking Incidents, and the Construction of Network Security in the United States (2024)
1983 marked an important point in the development of how people behaved regarding security on data networks in the United States. The confluence of the movie WarGames with a series of high-profile network breaches of Telenet, one of the biggest commercial data networking providers at the time, created a great deal of popular media attention. This public attention exposed how multiple social groups approached security in the formative period of data networking. As seen through these hacking incidents, persistent problems in network security such as the use of insecure passwords were well established and understood in the 1980s, and led to shifts in social behavior and expectations rather than a change in the technology.
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