As someone who has never seen Sneakers, I would have loved a clip of the button press that spawned this journey. What did it sound like?
Do yourself a favour and go watch that movie. There is a huge Hollywood sized grain of salt needed any time you deal with: Hacking, Computers, Internet, etc.. but this movie is EXCELLENT at showing 'Red Team' activities, social engineering, physical bypasses, and true historical hacking (debugging an IC to see what it does). There is great comedy, action, and intrigue in this film and should be in the top 3 of any ne…
Now I have to watch it again. I was thinking of Angelina Jolie with short hair and modem relays connecting public phones... but that was hackers.