Movies About Hacking

    Well, the following are some movies that at least try to talk about or tell a story about hackers and hacking. I am not going to claim the validity of any of them or how "close" they really don't come to portraying hackers or hacking correctly. But if you are interested in hackers or hacking they may give you a vague idea about them and may even be entertaining in the process.

War Games

Hackers

The Net

Johnny Mnemonic

Sneakers

Assasins

we are sure there are many others, we just couldn't think of them off the top of our heads.

Here are some reviews from Mr. Karpinski

War games is probably the first hacking related movie. A high school computer aficionado breaks in to the top secret Pentagon computer controlling the U.S.'s nuclear missiles with his modem. The movie concludes with the kid saving the world from World War 3 by teaching the computer that there is no way to win a nuclear war.

Assassins doesn't have a whole lot to do with hacking, but the hit men in it use the internet to contact their employers and receive information about their jobs.

Sneakers is about a "black box" item that can decode secret government files. The good guys have to steal the box from an evil company for the government.

The Net involves a computer junkie who discovers a giant computer conspiracy. The bad guys find out what she knows, and try to kill her, until she uploads the evidence of their misdeeds to the proper authorities.

Hackers is about some teen-agers who discovers an evil corporate conspiracy. The bad corporate guys try to kill them...etc.

Johnny Mnemonic is about a futuristic courier who carries the information to be delivered in his cybernetic head.