Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Top ten bad hacker movie moments

[Trevor O. <tr...@gm...>]

Other 'good' hacking movies:

Sneakers, a movie about a mathematician who creates a chip that can factor
large prime numbers (well, it's not about that, it's about a group of guys
hired to steal it).
Primer, which is more about time travel than hacking, but it approaches
computer science from an accurate angle. an amazing movie considering the
$7000 budget.

2009/10/18 matt donohue <mm_...@ya...>

> That Core looks almost watchable.
>
> Sandra Bullock's the Net has to excluded as it's plain awful in any context
> and set a REALLY bad trend.
>
> Swordfish could be the worst of the new with the hacker/dance video vibe.
> It has the classic tap,tap, tappity tap - enter - BOOYEAH hacker sequence.
> I think only the movie PI pulls that off:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQYYGwYTPuY
>
> I just finished reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" which, has some
> passable hacking and some soon to be ridiculous hardware references.
> Look for that to get garbled in the movie version.
>
> I heard this was good-" 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint"
> Going to watch this today (full movie):
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4392076678080895410
>
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> From: Trevor Oldak <tr...@gm...>
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>
> CSI might be a TV show, but man, do they stink at technobabble.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
>
> Swordfish has probably 5 of the top 10 scenes.
> This one has some bad language and some insinuated sex, but it involves
> hacking the Dept of Defense (with 128-bit encryption, no less!) in 60
> seconds.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY8HysBzsE
> There's another scene where the protagonist writes a virus, by watching a
> cube spin around and going "OH YEAH!!!" over and over like the Kool-Aid
> man.
> Seriously.
>
> Probably the most famous bad hacking scene ever is in Jurassic Park...
> "It's
> a UNIX system... I know this!"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
>
> Hackers from 1995 is a two-hour-long bad hacking scene, with bits of
> Angelina Jolie spliced in
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0
>
> Untraceable clearly had a writer who consulted with a computer guy, because
> they actually did a half-decent job at trying to make a believable hacking
> scenario. It still fails miserably, but they get bonus points for trying.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZGp_oAFQU (skip to the 4 minute mark)
>
> Firewall is a painfully bad one, too.
> There's one scene where Harrison Ford needs to get data off a computer.
> Instead of uploading it to the internet or putting it on disk, he  takes
> the
> light sensor from a scanner, plugs it into his ipod, and then tapes it to
> his computer screen.
> I couldn't find video of this.
>
> The Italian Job uses hacking almost as a Deus Ex Machina plot device. That
> was painful to watch too.
>
>
> The Core is a movie about the core of the earth's rotation stopping, and
> they need to send people with nukes and a computer hacker to the center of
> the earth to jumpstart it again
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiRuHKNrEw
>
> Antitrust has some great awful hacking scenes. The opening credits are the
> best part, though, where it flashes computer code up on the screen. This
> computer code is just HTML though. The premise to the plot is that the Big
> Evil Corporation steals code by reading it via hidden camera from basement
> hackers' computer screens as they code.
>
> Prison Break, another TV show, has a part where some hacker dude builds a
> device that can download all the data fron nearby electronics (a 20 foot
> radius or so), be it RAM memory, a CD, a SSD or a normal hard drive.
> Presumably through Van Eck Phreaking or something like that.
>
>
> That's about all I can think of.
>
> 2009/10/17 matt donohue <mm_...@ya...>
>
> > My son insisted on watching Independence Day on cable.
> >
> > The part where they are going to 'upload' a virus to the mothership might
> > make a top ten.
> > I said to my son, "we need to run to Radio Shack and get a Mothership
> > adapter."
> > and then- "what luck, the Mothership OS is Windows".
> >
> > What are your top ten bad hacker movie moments?
> >
> >
>
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