• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    If you recall the movie War Games, for the most part that was shit you could actually do. Provided you know the right phone number and login. I mention publishers clearing house, because we still got junk mail back then, and all of those names weren’t stored in a Rolodex and manually typed into an envelope. So there were databases. But having the dog’s name, that would be hard to find. Maybe if you got real lucky, their vet would have a computer system and a modem.

    The kid was hacking ATMs. Surely a T1000 could get access to that bank data. Which would have plenty of personal info. But again, probably no dog name.