Your sentiments on Hackers?

[moonshinemadness]

I just watched the film 'Hackers' ...great film but what are your sentiments on the art of hacking? Do any of you practice it? Have you been a victim? Do tell...

 

[Soybomb]

The film depicts hackers about as accurately as your average lesbian porn movie depicts my love life.

Final rating: the suck

 

[Rapidskies]

Ug didn't like that movie, and I don't like "hackers".

 

[biffbacon]

i like cheese

 

[DaveSimmons]

Most hackers these days are just Script Kiddies, for whom I have nothing but contempt. They run canned scripts to vanadlize, with no more "art" than someone throwing a rock through a window.

The real hackers are wasting their talent building rocks and crowbars instead of the next Counter-Strike, but I have a little more respect for their skill if not thier work.

No, I've never hacked, I use my 1337 coding skillz for Good instead of Eevil

 

[loup garou]

Good in that cheesy sorta way.

 

[hdeck]

i like the hackers that find vunerabilities in security and then help the person fix them.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: hdeck
i like the hackers that find vunerabilities in security and then help the person fix them.

that's how i would do it.....but then again i lack 1337 skillz

 

[rudeguy]

the movie was pretty funny...as for hacking...for the most part they are little teenage mongrils that need to be castrated and prevented from reproducing

 

[Emveach]

Originally posted by: biffbacon
i like cheese

Me too. I prefer chedder.

 

[Metalloid]

The movie was ok. I love how they navigate through the file database visually as if traveling in a spaceship.

 

[leung324]

hackers sucks. you should watch Hackers 2: operation take down. hackers is a kiddie movie compare to hackers 2

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: hdeck
i like the hackers that find vunerabilities in security and then help the person fix them.

Exactly. There's a big difference between legitimate "white hat" hackers that act as security consultants and the "black hat" hackers that are acting maliciously.

That said, I thought Hackers sucked. Definitely one of the biggest wastes of 90 minutes I ever saw.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Metalloid15
The movie was ok. I love how they navigate through the file database visually as if traveling in a spaceship.

Just like real life!

The music rules though.

 

[moonshinemadness]

Haha, i will check out hackers 2 some time. I didnt realise there was all the different degrees of hackers, its a whole new world

 

[Nocturnal]

I'll be truthful, the move Hackers gave me a deep urging to work with computers. It is what got me into computers a helluva lot more.

 

[moonshinemadness]

Ye i got that kinda feeling from it, same from swordfish...weird!

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: Emveach

Originally posted by: biffbacon
i like cheese

Me too. I prefer chedder.

Je suis le fromage!

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: Emveach

Originally posted by: biffbacon
i like cheese

Me too. I prefer chedder.

nah, it's all about havarti

 

[cressida]

there is that one girl that thinks she is a hacker, I can't find the thread though

 

[moonshinemadness]

Originally posted by: AunixM3

Originally posted by: Emveach

Originally posted by: biffbacon
i like cheese

Me too. I prefer chedder.

nah, it's all about havarti

Nahh Austrian Smoked

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: leung324
hackers sucks. you should watch Hackers 2: operation take down. hackers is a kiddie movie compare to hackers 2

No that would be the movie thats supposed to portray kevin mitnicks experience that is more fabrication and fiction than truth I do believe. If you want a REAL hacker movie watch Freedom Downtime from www.2600.com

btw: Gouda.

 

[Hammyton]

Feta

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: Synergy
there is that one girl that thinks she is a hacker, I can't find the thread though

I could only find this repost, and I don't feel like doing any more digging for the original, but I knew exactly what you were talking about.