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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."

2 of 216 comments (clear)

  1. Search burbling, no cursors, huge fonts by uberchicken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I try to allow for artistic license, but real computers DON'T MAKE CUTE R2D2 NOISES WHEN THEY'RE SEARCHING!

    Grrrr..

    Not strictly on-topic, but that felt good for me.

  2. HACK THE PLANET! by kaizokuace · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    HACK THE PLANET!

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    Balderdash!