Nice followup to that thread a few weeks ago, about movies with tech / hacking / security themes.

Thanks for the read, unsupported.

Hrm.. I tend to disagree, unless I just haven't seen the movies you are talking about j0rDy.  The popular movies where the young playing in his room?  I think that applies to two movies, Hackers and Wargames.  A borderline movie would be Anti-Trust, but he is a college student living on his own. 

Oh, wait, I think I missed Wargames 2: The Dead Code.  Even though it is blasphemy, I believe the kid is young and in his mothers basement.

There are other movies in this list (http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Publications/HackerMovies/Dataset.htm), where the "hacker" character is under 25, but I do not qualify most of them as living in their mothers basement.  Like The Italian Job, Serenity... but then I am just starting to split hairs between living in a basement and living on your own.

In regards to the older movies, he references Deskset, which is a good movie... even though it is in black and white.

You should see more hacker movies.  If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

uhm...werent we all "ethical"?  and what i learn from most hollywood movies is that the profession is hyped ALOT! remembering flashy screens, countdown timers until youre traced etc. good example:



the only situations i can think of are the following: or you succeed, or you dont. worst case scenario is you knock down a few (production) servers. and for that we have the NDA with an additional responsiblity part wich summons the following: for whatever I do, YOUR responsible

Isn't Gerard Butler (Leonidas in 300) the new "gamer" stereotype? Oh, wait...pimply kid eating hot pockets in a basement ran him like a puppet...nevermind.