Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
SINCE “Hackers” was released more than 20 years ago, the number of Internet users has grown from 25 million in 1994 to more than 3 billion in 2014. Do the math. The term also is more engrained in our brains because of people like Edward Snowden, who leaked information about the National Security Administration accessing information about millions of Americans without their knowledge. And because of retailers like Target, which had information on 40 million credit card users stolen by hackers. But, 20 years ago, computers remained a mystery to many in the general public, and the information on the Information Super Highway was sporadic and mediocre at best. That’s why Rafael Moreu’s screenplay for “Hackers” and subsequently Iain Softley’s (“Backbeat,” “Inkheart”) direction gave this movie its time-capsule stamp for years to come. A lot of that has to do with Moreu’s extensive research, hours and hours of interviews with the hackers of the day. They included Emmanuel Goldstein, editor-in-chief of 2600, a hacker quarterly, and one of the film’s consultants. Unfortunately, Moreu was not interviewed for the hour-long, high-def bonus feature. But he gets credit from Goldstein and Softley. “Rafael asked a lot of questions,” Goldstein remembered. “He wanted […]
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