Many movies portray hackers and phreaks in various, mostly inaccurate ways, from the fun but fantasy of movies like "Hackers" to the more recent depictions like The Rat in the new movie "The Core", who uses a comb as a whistle to phreak someone's cell phone.
My question is: How do you feel about these depictions of phreaks and hackers? Is it good that media largely glosses over the reality, and focuses on making them look hip, or is it vaguely insulting?
The Hollywood depiction of hackers is flawed and misleading. It's just Hollywood's attempts at trying to keep things at a level most people understand (they have to appeal to the masses), so verious technical scenerios are going to be "simplified" to the point where the casual movie goer wouldn't be grossly confused.
Yet, the Hollywood depiction of hackers has been good and bad to the scene. The Media and press have always depicted hackers as Evil criminals, when in fact, to "hack" means just writi
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you got to be shittin' me. Not that I had any inclination to see this movie,but now I don't know how to finish this sentence.
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