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« on: February 25, 2010, 01:13:52 PM » |
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It appears hackers have a good Hollywood agent, because a study of 50 movies involving hackers show that on average a hacker is 30 years old, a professional, and works in IT. Pimply faced teens who live in their mothers basement and live for hacking the Gibson, need not apply. Also, the majority (73%) of hackers are the good guys to boot. Yay good guys! I gotta respect this guy because he hits on the classics, Superman 3 and Wargames.  http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/337522 |
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2010, 01:22:57 PM » |
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Nice followup to that thread a few weeks ago, about movies with tech / hacking / security themes.
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 04:25:33 AM » |
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Good article! however i believe that the most populair ones always feature the young playing in his room with computers type. There is a link in the article referring to the 50 movies he used for his study. so if your on a friday night at home and dont have anything to do, just work up that list.
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 07:48:38 AM » |
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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. |
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 12:24:05 PM » |
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hmm...maybe my opinion was based on the movies i saw and not the list. i see i missed quite a few. someway i see alot of movies like for example swordfish where the hacker is profiled like that. i really like the part where they compare languages, hehe  |
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2010, 12:39:44 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2010, 12:49:05 PM » |
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I think that there was always a level of mystery surrounding hackers. I think that most people are more interested in what a hacker does, than what he or she looks like. I don't think that a particular appearance is attribute to hacker. The pimply faced, hot pockets eating dude in a basement is more of a gamer stereotype.
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2010, 06:08:04 AM » |
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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  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2010, 08:04:26 AM » |
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...The pimply faced, hot pockets eating dude in a basement is more of a gamer stereotype.
The first shot has been fired. Let the Gamer/Hacker flame war of '10 begin!!!! |
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2010, 10:42:53 AM » |
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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.  ...The pimply faced, hot pockets eating dude in a basement is more of a gamer stereotype.
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