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A list of movies about hacking

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Re: A list of movies about hacking

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Post by nabla9 »

mayoff wrote: post #10

What makes a movie “must watch” for “every hacker and cyberpunk”? Two criteria come to my mind: - The movie is likely to teach you something that will make you a better “hacker” or “cyberpunk”. - The movie depicts what it's actually like to be a “hacker” or “cyberpunk”. Now, which of the movies on this list are going to do either of those? Probably some of the documentaries, and probably almost none of the fictions.

cypherpunk vs. cyberpunk

cypherpunk: hacking, computing cryptography and related culture.

cyberpunk: subgenre of science fiction and related subculture.

Re: A list of movies about hacking

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Post by duskwuff »

oblio wrote: post #36

I'm going to go against the grain and say: don't watch these. Or rather, don't prioritize watching these. Try to balance out movies and books related to your profession or hobby with those outside of it. The world already has enough stereotypical geeks loving Ghost in the Shell, Star Wars and Star Trek, it needs more geeks having an interest in what "regular people" do and like.

Not to mention, a lot of these movies are awful. For instance, the first movie on the list is, inexplicably, "WarGames: The Dead Code". Not the classic "WarGames", but a horrible direct-to-video sequel released in 2008.

Re: A list of movies about hacking

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Post by nickpsecurity »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #12

This doesn't appear to be so much a curated list of much-watch movies so much as a list of all movies about hacking ever. Here is my curated list of movies ever hacker and cyberpunk enthusiast must watch: * Sneakers * Ghost in the Shell * Tron Why is Tron there? Because the screenwriter loosely based the character around her husband. Who was her husband? Alan Kay. Tron's protagonist is Alan Kay.

Blackhat should probably be on there for being about only one to get hacking right in recent times.

"Because the screenwriter loosely based the character around her husband. Who was her husband? Alan Kay. Tron's protagonist is Alan Kay."

Had no clue his wife wrote it or portrayed him. That's neat! Brings in some irony given Tron character is fighting the slavery of MCP but Kay told me here on HN he loved Burroughs B5000. Also implied its lead creator, Bob Barton, was a genius and revolutionary overturning all the bad software, hardware, and engineering that came before it in one fell swoop. As in, the movie could've just as easily had MCP as the hero. ;)

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