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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:You call that well treated? by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You call that realistic? Realistic would be an obese mouth-breathing zit-encrusted neckbeard with eyeglasses taped together screaming "LOL I troll you!" while typing furiously into a sticky keyboard, piss-bottle at the ready, bound in a semen-crusted dragon shirt and yellow skid-marked briefs.

    What's surprising is that Hollywood dosen't use the actual stereotype as described above. The truth would be more amusing than the fiction they've churned out thus far.