<![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers]]> it's easier to find bad depictions of hackers in movies and TV then good ones.

It's hard to show hacking accurately, because it generally:
1. Takes lots and lots of time
2. is repetitive
3. Doesn't do anything all that impressive when you gain root/finder/admin access

The best hacking for movies or TV is hardware hacking because it's visual.

A friend once argued to me that the stuff in Hackers was supposed to be a metaphor, because of how boring actually showing people typing code is.

Maybe the killer website movie Untraceable will be better. Even if it does look like a complete rip off of the episode of Chris Carter's Millennium called The Mikado.

One can only hope.

gryftir

]]> <![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers]]> Swordfish is a favorite.

zolielo

]]> <![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers]]> I prefer robot tinkerer movies like "Hardware" myself. Then again "War Games" always made me WISH I was a hacker, while "Firewall" made that wish all go away. I think the next wave of crap hacker-esque movies will be less about programming and actual hacking and more about Wiki, web and texting hence --"Untraceable."

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Hacker Movies That Please Hackers]]> Although it is not pleasing to hackers, one of my favorite movie representations of a hack was in Jurassic Park. After Samuel L. Jackson is killed off, they need somebody to reboot the park, and the only person available is the grand-daughter. As she sits in front of the computer, her eyes get wide and she says "It's a Unix System" like she had just found a million dollars. Makes me crack up every time.

Mokers

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