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My favorite “hacker” movie is “Sneakers”.

jcadam 6y ago
Yes! Not to mention, Sneakers is slightly(ha!) more realistic than "Hackers." And also Swordfish while I'm thinking about it. Now I need to watch it again.
- leetrout 6y ago
  I tried Swordfish again and just couldn’t get in to it. I’ve had that feeling about a lot of movies from my teens.
  - jcadam 6y ago
    You know, when somebody mentions Swordfish the first thing I think of is the "Interview" scene. There's a joke in there somewhere about high-pressure SV technical interviews.
- prepend 6y ago
  Didn’t swordfish have some manually “hack” 128bit encryption in 2 minutes or something stupid? Swordfish seemed like the most out of touch of any hackers movie I’ve seen.
  - panpanna 6y ago
    Swordfish is right at the bottom of my realistic-hacker-movies list.
    - Jugurtha 6y ago
      Here's a page listing "Movies Featuring the Nmap Security Scanner": https://nmap.org/movies/ https://nmap.org/movies/
      - dariusj18 6y ago
        I see no one thinks IPv6 will catch on.
      - sincarne 6y ago
        Well, add the nmap web site to the list of sites I can only see through a VPN while on Tesco Mobile.
headmelted 6y ago
Well the correct answer is WarGames I'm afraid.
- daniellarusso 6y ago
  Yeah, that is up there. More phreaking than hacking, though.
- wyldfire 6y ago
  Mister potato head, mister potato head -- they're not mutually exclusive!
- criddell 6y ago
  The Tron movies are up there for me as well. The most recent Tron movie is one of those movies that I can watch with no sound or listen with no video and still enjoy it.
panpanna 6y ago
I think sneakers was the successor to either wargames or hackers. Either way, great movie with a realistic story and minimal hacker stereotypes.
- castillar76 6y ago
  Wargames! The writers for Sneakers, Lasker and Parkes, first encountered the ideas they used in Sneakers while doing their research for Wargames, and apparently generated a good deal of the plot for it in '81.
PoachedSausage 6y ago
Great movie. "Cattle mutilations are up." Has Dan Akroyd ever played a bad character?
- dole 6y ago
  Perhaps the groundskeeper in Caddyshack II but I’m not sure who could’ve saved that role.
pmiller2 6y ago
Setec Astronomy: https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-how-the-movie-might-have-influenced-a-real-life-u-s-intelligence-agency.html https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-...

Yes! Not to mention, Sneakers is slightly(ha!) more realistic than "Hackers." And also Swordfish while I'm thinking about it. Now I need to watch it again.

leetrout 6y ago
I tried Swordfish again and just couldn’t get in to it. I’ve had that feeling about a lot of movies from my teens.
- jcadam 6y ago
  You know, when somebody mentions Swordfish the first thing I think of is the "Interview" scene. There's a joke in there somewhere about high-pressure SV technical interviews.
prepend 6y ago
Didn’t swordfish have some manually “hack” 128bit encryption in 2 minutes or something stupid? Swordfish seemed like the most out of touch of any hackers movie I’ve seen.
- panpanna 6y ago
  Swordfish is right at the bottom of my realistic-hacker-movies list.
  - Jugurtha 6y ago
    Here's a page listing "Movies Featuring the Nmap Security Scanner": https://nmap.org/movies/ https://nmap.org/movies/
    - dariusj18 6y ago
      I see no one thinks IPv6 will catch on.
    - sincarne 6y ago
      Well, add the nmap web site to the list of sites I can only see through a VPN while on Tesco Mobile.

headmelted 6y ago

Well the correct answer is WarGames I'm afraid.

daniellarusso 6y ago
Yeah, that is up there. More phreaking than hacking, though.
wyldfire 6y ago
Mister potato head, mister potato head -- they're not mutually exclusive!
criddell 6y ago
The Tron movies are up there for me as well. The most recent Tron movie is one of those movies that I can watch with no sound or listen with no video and still enjoy it.

panpanna 6y ago

I think sneakers was the successor to either wargames or hackers. Either way, great movie with a realistic story and minimal hacker stereotypes.

castillar76 6y ago
Wargames! The writers for Sneakers, Lasker and Parkes, first encountered the ideas they used in Sneakers while doing their research for Wargames, and apparently generated a good deal of the plot for it in '81.

PoachedSausage 6y ago

Great movie. "Cattle mutilations are up." Has Dan Akroyd ever played a bad character?

dole 6y ago
Perhaps the groundskeeper in Caddyshack II but I’m not sure who could’ve saved that role.

pmiller2 6y ago

Setec Astronomy: https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-how-the-movie-might-have-influenced-a-real-life-u-s-intelligence-agency.html https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-...