Reminds me of an acquaintance who used to live off the end of an air base runway. He had a game called "Defcon" or some such on his TRS-80 (this was some time ago), and his young boy fired it up one afternoon. It was a simple series of messages starting with "Good day, Mr. President. Enter nuclear launch code now," proceeding through several 'you SURE about this?' challenges, and ending with "Launching attack." It didn't matter what you typed, it still progressed. At the end, just after the 'launching' message, a plane happened to take off from the air base. In a panic, the poor kid ran out into the street shouting, "I've just started a war!"
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