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The movie was partially responsible for creating the stereotype. This was 1992 and hacker culture wasn't yet mainstream.

• aa-jv 1y ago
  Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first. I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
  • glimshe 1y ago
    The movies you mentioned were far from any type of hacker culture. They were much more about the power of computers, then a mysterious machine people knew little about.
    • aa-jv 1y ago
      War Games is literally about a hacker. Tron is literally about a hacker. Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks. Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.
  • duxup 1y ago
    I feel like those films were sort of "along side" the hacker world. Sneakers to me was more on point.
  • digger495 1y ago
    _incorrect_ stereotypes? Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.