[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!