My wife who is a doctor rented this for us to watch when it first came out on video since I am a programmer. She couldn't understand why I kept rolling my eyes at many scenes. I think she understood when I got her back by renting some hospital drama movie and watched her roll her eyes at all the improbable medical situations it presented.
The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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I vaguely remember being able to hack it to display an animation…
>I vaguely remember being able to hack it to display an animation… I can remember as a kid downloading executables that claimed they would do this for you. In retrospect they were probably just malware…
IIRC the bitmap was saved as a .sys file to make it a secret for some reason.
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Aside from crypto startups, could you share an example?
The presenters in Defcon seem like they enjoy what they do, for example.
Amen to that. The reality though seems to be that being a really good hacker/reverser, is still a relatively lonely endeavor. Don't get me wrong, high level stuff is absolutely a team endeavor, but it requires hours and hours and hours of extraordinary concentration and effort done mostly by yourself. It's tough (but not impossible) to do that and conventional things like raise a family and maintain a relationship with your spouse or friends.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#154Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…
Post of the day award!
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#155Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…
I imagine there’s still cool gigs. It’s just not with The Enterprise doing Webscale.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#156the hackers soundtrack is fantastic and includes some of the best electronic music from the era. the version of halcyon and on is in my opinion almost as good as the original 11 minute 12" uk promo edit [0], which may not have fit on this soundtrack.
in 2020 varese sarabande released an expanded 2xCD of the hackers soundtrack [1]. the second disk includes full length versions of the instrumental electronic music composed for the film by simon boswell [2] but not included on the 1 disk soundtrack and is absolutley essential listening while rollerblading to the payphones at penn station.
[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/42711-Orbital-Halcyon
[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15991139-Various-Hackers-Ori...
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#157the hackers soundtrack is fantastic and includes some of the best electronic music from the era. the version of halcyon and on is in my opinion almost as good as the original 11 minute 12" uk promo edit [0], which may not have fit on this soundtrack. in 2020 varese sarabande released an expanded 2xCD of the hackers soundtrack [1]. the second disk includes full length versions of the instrumental electronic music comp…
Get with it grandad. we scoot to the Uber while using our iPhone these days.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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#159Everyone knows Angelina Jolie, but did you know Jonny Lee Miller (Zero Cool) has had a prodigious acting career after Hackers? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001538/ My favorite character of his was Sherlock Holmes in "Elementary"
He was great as Sick Boy from Trainspotting.
He also played Graeme Obree in the Flying Scotsman.
That's a good film too.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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Not a movie but have you seen Mr. Robot?
Fight Club is the same plot in movie form right? Unreliable narrator, secret society (starting with "F") of anarcho-capitalists bent on bringing down Big Credit, cheesy hacking lingo etc?
The first season of mr. robot borrows a hell of a lot from fight club, but it diverges as the show goes on. One of the rare shows that sticks the landing.