Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by daniellarusso | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

daniellarusso

My favorite “hacker” movie is “Sneakers”.

View on HN

Well the correct answer is WarGames I'm afraid.

Yeah, that is up there. More phreaking than hacking, though.

Mister potato head, mister potato head -- they're not mutually exclusive!

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.

I think sneakers was the successor to either wargames or hackers.

Either way, great movie with a realistic story and minimal hacker stereotypes.

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.

Great movie.

"Cattle mutilations are up."

Has Dan Akroyd ever played a bad character?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Swordfish is right at the bottom of my realistic-hacker-movies list.

Here's a page listing "Movies Featuring the Nmap Security Scanner": https://nmap.org/movies/

I see no one thinks IPv6 will catch on.

Well, add the nmap web site to the list of sites I can only see through a VPN while on Tesco Mobile.

Setec Astronomy: https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com