[dylan604]

After your reco after the GP's reco, I would have to agree. This is well done. However, coming from a coding/dev background, it was easy to follow and it all makes sense.

However, it goes to show why hacking will never be made interesting in movies without a bunch of fake nonsense like hacking the Gibson's 3D virtual environment.

[currymj]

“Hackers” is interesting because there’s two depictions of hacking in the same movie.

One is flying through the holographic city of files.

The other depiction is quite realistic: they show the protagonist spending all night reading through many pages of assembly to reverse engineer a virus, people do social engineering, etc. “Hackers” made this seem cool too!

[dylan604]

"Sneakers" - 1992

"Hackers" - 1995

Sneakers had them going through the trash, setting up a mark on a fake date, and staking out a building and the security company it used with all sorts of stuff not once looking at a computer screen to "hack" three years earlier.

I like Hackers for the campy side of things, but Sneakers will still take a higher spot on my list.

[pajko]

"Matrix" - 1999

That ssh exploit was so cool...

[alternatetwo]

Wasn’t that Matrix Reloaded?

[jasonvorhe]

Yes.

[latentsea]

Hack the planet!

[kevindamm]

The best and worst examples were in the same movie, IMO: Nedry's finger-wagging admonishment and all hell breaking loose, then later, "it's a Unix system, I know this!" and some exotic file manager visualization.

[dylan604]

Mr Robot has some decent hacking scenes. At least they put up prompt windows with commands that are generic enough to not be hackTheGibson.exe type lame.

[nfriedly]

I used to work with a couple of the guys who consulted on the technical aspects of Mr Robot. From what I recall, the general idea was to use realistic hacks, but speed through the boring parts to keep the show interesting.

[comprambler]

That exotic file manager vis was a real SGI prog called fsn. Exists for sunos as well.

[kbenson]

Are you thinking of the one shown in Jurassic park? The scene in hackers was much more CGI, and while I don't doubt it was inspired by fsn, I'd be very surprised if it actually was fsn.