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Hollywood Treats Hackers Pretty Well

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sandra-bullock-on-the-other-hand dept.

angry tapir writes "According to Damian Gordon, a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, hackers are treated pretty well by movie-makers. Gordon studied 50 movies, produced over five decades, to help write an academic paper for the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. The results amazed him. In the movies, most hackers aren't teenaged whiz-kids. They're professionals, over 30 years old, who work in IT."

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  1. Re:Yes, but by rsborg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Too bad scenes of someone typing furiously at a computer are boring as hell.

    You know, I think movies like Wargames, Matrix (and to a smaller extent, Sneakers) did this pretty decently. For example, the scene where Neo is first contacted by Trinity is a great example of how powerful text can be, if used properly.

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  2. Re:Yes, but by Jeffrey_Walsh+VA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    check out the "ease-of-use of the Zeus crimeware toolkit":
    http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zeus-king-underground-crimeware-toolkits
    In the YouTube video at 1:48 you can see the ZuesBuilder gui