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Hollywood vs hackers: Vulture cracks Tinseltown keyboard cornballs

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Re: Oh come on, you missed the best one!!!

South Park has on occasion had fun with the Hollywood hacker stereotype along the lines of :

"hacking into the Department of Defence", tap, tap, "through the firewall,... wait it's encrypted", tap tap, "ok we're in"

But to be honest I'm grateful Hollywood takes these liberties, who wants to see someone spend several hours accurately coding a worm or restarting a major island wide IT system?

Probably the most believable mainstream film I've seen was Antitrust (in it's depiction of using IT rather than overall premise and plot!) which did a good job but then again some good IT industry guys were advising them or had bit parts (Linus Torvalds, Tim Lindholm, Miguel de Icaza, Scott McNealey and others, apparently the credits lists a section titled "Geeks" lol), the on screen depictions of code and command line entries were pretty good.

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