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Hollywood vs hackers: Vulture cracks Tinseltown keyboard cornballs

Jeremy Allison

Re: SNEAKERS

Yeah, I was gonna mention this too.

If you mentally convert the 'magic' SEATEC ASTRONOMY box to a method be quickly breaking DES, then just about everything else in this movie makes sense :-).

Even down to James Earl Jones saying "We're the US Government, we don't do that kind of thing" to the request for "peace on Earth and goodwill to all men" :-).

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