[nh23423fefe]

you didn't love swordfish?

[scoutt]

I hated it. IIRC, there is this part where the main character is trying to assemble a virus, shouting "compile, compile, please compile... YES!".

I wasn't convinced about this hacker having problems to compile a program...

OR

There is another possible explanation but I have to check dates since I think the movie was released way before the first version of Rust!!!

[TheMaskedCoder]

Vulnerability discovery and programming are different skill sets. I've seen terrible code written by talented security researchers.

[sp332]

I liked one bit of that movie, when Hugh Jackman is pacing around muttering "I'm too old for this shit" and finishing a bottle of wine during a coding session.

[acidburnNSA]

That "building the worm" scene has got to be my favorite depiction of software development of all time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY

[Octoth0rpe]

I mean, it got the "% of spoken words that are profanities" part correct.

[achr2]

Why did I just watch that again. I knew it was going to be pure cringe, but I clicked it anyway.

[usgroup]

lol -- brilliant. Notice he was using Github Copilot -- that's what all those green blocks are. He' just got the 31337 CLI version.

[CodeMage]

Oh, man. I forgot how much I hated that particular scene. It was almost as bad as the "60-second crack" scene.

[gwbas1c]

I hated it, personally. The special effects were so bad that I lost my suspension of disbelief; and the ending where John Travolta (it was a long time ago) was part of a super-secret organization that was so secret that no one knew about it nearly made me laugh.

[Brajeshwar]

That was not a bad movie. Prior to the movie, I read about the Carnivore and the Magic Lantern program. Then heard them mentioned in the movie, and thought "Ah! Nice".

[liampulles]

My dad always used the ball bearing explosion scene to demonstrate his surround sound system to guests :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHZWeeoEUg

[sschueller]

The only good part was Halle Berry...