Has anyone here seen this flick?  I was kidnapped and forced to at gunpoint recently. Well not really, but if I knew what I was going to see, it would have taken that!  Now to be fair, I was very tired and was half asleep when I was watching it so take what I say  in that light.  Any one here that watched, please correct me if I am wrong.

Was it true that the “hacker” had high jacked thousands of boxes in Russia?  The FBI could not stop him because every time they black holed his high jacked computer another one of his would connect to the DNS server?   Is that it?  Did I miss something?  I must have.  First of all, so what if he had 1000 or more boxes, just keep black holing them if need be. So what if it took a few days. In the movie, the FBI agent gave up after about 2 tries I think. Why not take out the first and secondary DNS servers if you actually had the power to black hole?  That should do it.  Where these servers or normal home boxes he high jacked?  Can’t remember.  There is no way a home machine could host thousands upon thousands of connections with live streaming video.  No way he could have really owned that many high speed servers even in a 3rd world country.  Oh well, just another movie stereotyping hackers as evil I guess. Again, please correct me if I missed something.

Untraceable?  That's 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Just couse his acting was kinda wooden doesn't mean that there is no hope for him. Hope that your movie is better than kev's.

haha... guys,what did you expect ??

movies will never get over the idea of flashy GUI's and all powerful computer criminals who seem to be able to do anything in like..20 seconds ??  (a good example of this would be Die Hard 4... which i barely survived)

as long as it sounds technical... most ppl wont know any better...  its a shame they cant just get it straight though...   

Think that about sums it up nicely. From my point of view I actually enjoy all of the 'bad' hacking related films. Whilst the 'action' is completely unrealistic as long as the premise is believable I've got no complaints.

• Hackers: bad guy was corporate insider
• Die Hard 4.0: all prep work prior the attack was social engineering
• Swordfish: erm... OK Halle Berry may have helped this one
• etc.

From ChrisG's point Hackers actually does show the protoganists reverse engineering some code to figure out what it does. Also quotes Mentor's manifesto and shows clueless law enforcement out of their depth. (*)

Films that really get my goat up include the likes of Ocean's 13 (really bad film and not just for this reason). Something went wrong and one of the team gets cuffed (the IT specialist) so a stand-in man-in-the-middles a connection from the FBI (wirelessly, from a transit van) listing known acomplaces(sp?). seriously...

(*Disclaimer: until I saw Hackers as a kid I wanted to be suit so may have a slightly biased viewpoint)

Hackers was an awesome movie. Hack the planet!

say hello to my boomstick!

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