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I wrote about hackers too, http://www.dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2023-12-02.txt the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what's not their screens, but what's in their minds, through a poetic lens.
I watched it when I was starting in high school and got inspired by it. Then, I literally googled "How to become a hacker" and found this incredible page by Eric Raymond [0], which I used as an mentor throughout my high school and college years. I ended up developing the recommended hard skills (learning programming, UNIX, open source culture...) but also the "points of style" (martial arts, science fiction, meditation, music). In fact, when I was trying to search for a hacker community online, I stumbled upon Hacker News and haven't left ever since!
As expected, I didn't become a black hat hacker as in the movie but, to this day, I still believe this movie changed the course of my life.
I recently stumbled upon this https://usegpu.live/demo/geometry/binary and it reminded me of the city of text.
This is really neat! I wonder how they chose to represent the inner structure of these binaries visually - there seem to be some similarities between the .exes vs the other types. Reminds me of pointing the viewport address to a block of code on the Amiga 500, and watching it run.
https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization/
And here is a talk about binary visualization by the legend Christopher Domas, which is where I first saw it used:
With so many great and much more accurate hacker movies like Sneakers, this one was just so much fun to see evry aspect of hacking amplified to the "X-treme!!!"
My favorite line from the movie - they are huddled around someone's new computer and a character compliments them with: "Killer refresh rate!" With so many great and much more accurate hacker movies like Sneakers, this one was just so much fun to see evry aspect of hacking amplified to the "X-treme!!!"
I just rewatched it again recently and find it a thoroughly enjoyable film.
It doesn't look like this site has done a review of Sneakers yet but I recommend they do. The interfaces are much more realistic for the time (even if the cryptography mathematics do suffer a bit)
Hack the planet A fun movie I wonder if it was filmed 10 years later if everyone would be wearing Crocs and not rollerblades.
Cereal Killer, Lord Nikon, and Phantom Phreak, real names not given.
This movie is the reason why I became a programmer. I watched it when I was starting in high school and got inspired by it. Then, I literally googled "How to become a hacker" and found this incredible page by Eric Raymond [0], which I used as an mentor throughout my high school and college years. I ended up developing the recommended hard skills (learning programming, UNIX, open source culture...) but also the "point…
E.g. Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Diamond Age, A Fire Upon the Deep