Movies

You may also want to check out the following thread, where nearly all of the "hacker" movies I've ever seen or even heard of were discussed. There are __ posts, and granted, some movies were mentioned more than once, but there's a great deal of information to be found there. Hope it helps.

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231570

AJ

I seem to remember a book called "Cyberia" check it out.

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Originally posted here by avdven
check out the following thread, http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231570

AJ

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Remeber to try a search prior to posting a topic you think may have been covered before. You don't want to get negged for being annoying.

and here is my input on your question...

Contact the 2600 "www.2600.com" for a copy of Freedom Downtime. Their version of the Kevin Mitnick Story. There is also a the Movie "TakeDown" which is also the Kevin Mitnick Story.

There is also of course:
WarGames, Office Space, Password: Swordfish, AntiTrust, Hackers, Sneakers, etc.....

a few that were not mentioned
dreiundzwanzig, a german hacker movie
Ghost in the Machine

and found an intersting link about the hacker movie site getting hacked:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/out/...002/05/13.html

For me, the movie "Hackers" does a good job exposing some of the real hacker traits and interests, mostly having to do with the hacker sub-culture.

The perception of 'hacking' has taken a dramatic shift in the past 2 decades...

Number one "hacker" movie is probably "Wargames"...I mean honestly, how many people can utilize Hayes commands and put their phone the cradle anymore...and actually do something with it? Not to mention working in a text-only environment (Linux users have an advantage here)...

Otherwise, the perception of 'hackers' and 'crackers' and such are skewed by modern users who can't even REMEMBER a life without a computer in it. There was such a time, trust me, when a computer meant a big, clunky piece of machinery that would be easily overshadowed by the chipset in a gaming console nowadays...
The only thing that hasn't changed is the desire in some people to dig into the workings of any system, beit digital or analog, and understand exactly how it works...and perhaps exploit it...
Those that expect things and use them with no attention to how all of it came about are lost to the generation, IMO. Use, use, use without understand, understand, understand is profoundly ignorant...
Oh, wait...movies...ummm....TRON is a good one, too...:) The Matrix, although a good movie in itself, just plays on the expectations of the ignorant.

Ouroboros

I agree with cyb3rn3tik. I thought those movies were at best "weak" and with the lone gunmen on the x-files only furthered the public's misunderstanding of what hackers and hacking is all about.

I mean, how many times do you see one of these idiots say something completely incorrect, inept, idiotic and off the wall like..."I'm going to hack the mainframe database gigabyte system" Then 17 seconds later they have broken into the DOD's database to find exactly what they're looking for.


I'd say steer clear of these movies and just get down to some real research at some place like
http://packetstorm.decepticons.org or www.securityfocus.com and last but certainly not least antionline.com

You might want to check out http://www.antionline.com/showthread...ghlight=movies