"Hackers" wasn't accurate but it did bring about awareness for the need for computer security and strong passwords.
I think Hollywood should reboot it for the modern times.
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#12love the film to pieces, never for the accuracy (tho it did accurately introduce many to the concepts of phreaking etc, simple stuff, tonedialing etc.whether technically displayed properly.....oh gosh it's all coming flooding back now)
There was a quote from Softley in the Art of the Title article about the opening titles http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/hackers/ where he says it was a Bridge. Being of a certain age, this totally was part of it. It was for the most part the peak of the modem/bbs days... and there was a transition between the more analog days to the real digital days, the days of the internet - where alot of the hacker culture, and things like the demo scene etc...became diluted. Anyways, never took it that seriously, I mean the characters alone are so out there, but it was inspiring from the whole computer thing to the music (legendary soundtrack, introducing a lot of ravey/UK type stuff to ppl, on the cusp of the whole electronica thing) and just the 90s nostalgia/tech nostalgia - it's great! And come on! Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller alone...the former going on to such massive success....
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#13I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
I still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
That's the joke. Dade was utilizing social engineering to obtain information from a security guard.
Realistic or not, it's a great example of how technology is never stronger than its weakest link, and often that link is human.
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#14"Hackers" wasn't accurate but it did bring about awareness for the need for computer security and strong passwords. I think Hollywood should reboot it for the modern times.
Please, not with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman...
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#15I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
I wonder if that's possibly an east coast vs. west coast thing. We always said point (south east).
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
That's the joke. Dade was utilizing social engineering to obtain information from a security guard. Realistic or not, it's a great example of how technology is never stronger than its weakest link, and often that link is human.
The abuse of acronyms causes wetware buffer overflows, I guess.
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#17"Hackers" wasn't accurate but it did bring about awareness for the need for computer security and strong passwords. I think Hollywood should reboot it for the modern times.
Please, not with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman...
Ugh why them? The main characters in Hackers were teenagers who went out to explore cyberspace and see what was there and hack into it.
They had a "Hack the Planet" message in that movie.
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#18I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
I still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
He looks at his sandwich before he says it; he's showing that you don't even need accurate information to get people to do what you need.
sound potentially important, hurried.. and desperate for a favour- and people will try to help
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please, not with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman...
Ugh why them? The main characters in Hackers were teenagers who went out to explore cyberspace and see what was there and hack into it. They had a "Hack the Planet" message in that movie.
It's a reference to Swordfish.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik Because, you know, that's how hacking works...
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#20And here I thought, "Steven Levy's book has been out longer than 20 years..."