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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. 🙂
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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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@j0rDy wrote:
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 8)
You should see more hacker movies. If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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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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@unsupported wrote:
@j0rDy wrote:
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 8)
You should see more hacker movies. If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. 🙂 🙂 🙂
uhm…werent we all “ethical”? 8) 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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@Ketchup wrote:
…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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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. :-
@unsupported wrote:
@Ketchup wrote:
…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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