Top five hacking moments on film

5. Independence Day: Using an old space ship as cover for two humans to infiltrate the alien mother ship and upload a virus to destroy it.
4. Hackers: Dumpster diving in the target company's trash in order to obtain financial data from printouts.
3. War Games: Password cracking the military computer system by studying its creator.
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Faking a grandmother's death to get Ferris's girlfriend excused from school through multiple phone calls and answering machine recordings.
1. Star Wars: R2-D2 gaining access to the death star main computer and shutting down the garbage dispensers (remember the com link!).

I thought they were too funny not to post here.. :D

That aside, the list is part of a better article called Social engineering reloaded, which is a worthwhile read.

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Ah, no mention of Trinitys' use of NMap in The Matrix Reloaded?

I'm shocked!

I gotta go with Swordfish...talk about incentive :D

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I gotta go with Swordfish...talk about incentive :D

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Complete forgot about Swordfish! How does anything from the movie Hackers beat Matrix and Swordfish???

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Ah, no mention of Trinitys' use of NMap in The Matrix Reloaded?

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I know! That's what I was amazed at too - although to be fair IIRC that scene didn't last too long ;)

I haven't seen Swordfish, so can't comment on that. The second one on the list is horrible but hilarious :D

What about Hackers 2 - The Takedown (Story of Kevin Mitnick) ... Dramatized and Romantized (is that a word :D) ... There's some hacking and social engineering in that.

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Jurassic Park
when the GIRLIE sorts out the encrytpted stuff

been a while since I watched
but I definately remember 'puters in there :O

American psycho...

He gets a guy drunk and drags him into his appartment which he had covered in plastic... he puts on some music and this puts a little swing in his step as he hacks away at the guy with an axe. Any sort of "social engineering" pretty much took a life of its own.

I beleave he was mistaken as the man mentioned above for most of the movie... and everyone was so stoned/drunk or caught up in their who's-who that they pretty much made lies about being with certain people at certain times. Puts Mitnick's phone antics to shame, IMHO.

Mission Impossiable had some 1337 hax0r1ng in it... did it not?

I thought "Sneakers" had some compelling PC work going on.....

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Tagline: We could tell you what it's about. But then, of course, we'd have to kill you.

Plot Outline: Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal

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Sneakers

Sneakers hands down. Thats got to be one of my favourite Geek related films

Howdy.

?I've always found the movie Electric Dreams pretty amusing.

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This is a must-see old 80's movie! It's actually a love story that goes something like this - a nerdy guy who knows nothing about computers buys himself a home computer. Within days he's hacking into his boss's computer and downloads everything from the massive system in just a few seconds on his speedy acoustic coupler modem. The download overloads his computer so he does what any ordinary man would do - he dumps a glass of champaigne into the keyboard.

So as you probably guessed, the computer isn't fried - instead it comes to life, starts talking to the nerdy guy and becomes jealous of his girlfriend. In no time, the movie goes into a plot similar to The Net where the computer is making the nerdy guy's life hell by calling the police on him, canceling his credit cards and locking him into his apartment.

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There's also Ghost in the Machine witch is another oldie i get some laughs from..

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Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books.

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5. It's a movie about ALIENS. Enough said.
4. No financial company is stupid enough to throw out their printouts WHOLE in a DUMPSTER. Shredded or whatnot.
3. No idea.
2. Hahaha that was great, I loved that scene. Great movie too.
1. Never really got into HOW R2-D2 did it, he just plugged his little USB 5.0 connector into the deathstar and BAM. :P

Great list though

Got to severely disagree with that...

#2 shouldn't even be on the list, much less #2...

#5 I'm sorry, but that whole part where he talks about viruses just makes me cringe and the level of BS...about as bad as listening to Dr. Brown talk about jigawatts in Back to the Future :rolleyes:

Definitely agree with earlier comments about trinity using the SSH exploit and nmap to get into the power grid...

And War Games...completely didn't mention that he got the password for his school's computers from the secretary and then used it to log in and change his grades...all that before he got into the military computers...IMHO that movie deserves to be #1, it was way ahead of its time (think about it, you STILL hear discussions of what happens if someone hacks into the power grid, into this infrastructure, or that infrastructure). It is, at least for me, one the major reasons I became interested in security...

What about Office Space or New Jack City? Both had some sort of hacking in them.