Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Since hacking became a thing, Hollywood has wanted to make movies about it. The worst of these movies regard hacking as some sort of magic, such as 2008’s Eagle Eye, in which a supercomputer hacks into a power line and somehow makes it physically fall on someone. Hackers was not only one of the first movies to tackle the subject, way back in 1995, but also one of the silliest, with director Iain Softley’s camera roving through the inside of a computer as if it were the Death Star trench and depicting a virus as a weird organism of keyboard characters that forms something resembling the tail of a peacock. Yet, 20 years later, Hackers endures in a way that Swordfish (Password Accepted) and Firewall don’t, because while Softley took visual license with hacking’s dullest aspect (people sitting at terminals and typing), he and screenwriter Rafael Moreu put effort into getting the culture correct. As a child, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller), handle “Zero Cool”, hacks into a Wall Street computer and causes a massive crash, which earns his parents a hefty fine and gets him banned from computers until he turns 18. When that day arrives, he’s just moved […]
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