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For me, it's a close second to "Swordfish" for movie depictions of computer programming (at least the way I do it at home).

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What about Trinity's port hacking in Matrix Reloaded?

http://camworld.org/archives/001066.html

I don't really see how that could be. Zuck was using emacs, wget, and PHP is plausible ways to accomplish things that a tech-savvy viewer would see as realistic. In Swordfish, Jobson was visually programming a "hydra" matrix-textured rubiks cube and dropping "logic bombs" into the DoD web login forms.

I did say "a close second".

I do have to say that the hacking scene in "Swordfish" was cooler, though again, highly unrealistic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOgkgnZAdc&ob=av3n

In CSI, they use Visual Basic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

EDIT: Here's the final product (watch this second):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GD4ehJ25o&NR=1

While getting a blowjob, IIRC.

I mean, come on... that's only happened to me a handful of times.

That was just during the job interview. And they say Google is a tough interview.

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