en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

This infobox date conflicts with Cannes records.

• The official Festival de Cannes page for WarGames identifies the film as "Film de cloture" (closing film) for the 1983 festival.
• INA’s archive page for the "Closing evening of the 1983 festival" gives the closing ceremony’s date as 19 mai 1983.

Because a closing film is shown at the festival’s closing, listing the Cannes date as May 7, 1983 is incorrect; the Cannes screening was on May 19, 1983.

The chronology here is wrong.

Department of Justice and Congressional Research Service materials both explain that Congress had already enacted federal computer-crime provisions in 1984. The DOJ states that the law was first enacted in 1984. A DOJ manual further says that in 1984, Congress enacted legislation which for the first time specifically defined several computer-related offenses, and that those offenses were amended significantly by enactment of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

Likewise, the Congressional Research Service says "The first major federal computer-crime enactment came in the form of the ... Act of 1984" and that "In 1986, Congress substantially amended the 1984 Act."

So the 1986 CFAA was not the first federal law/policy in this area; it was a major amendment to an earlier 1984 federal computer-crime statute.