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Top 10 Hacker Movies You’ve Missed

Introduction

Yeah, I’m doing one of these.

I’m going to list and rank ten movies that feature hackers as major characters or hacking itself as a major plot point and discuss what makes them good or bad.

I am purposefully not including WarGames, Sneakers, Hackers or Swordfish, all movies that have existing rabid fans and detractors in the hacking scene.

10. Prime Risk (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiU7hkMe4_M

Prime Risk is a weird movie, despite how much they talk about hackers and computers it is obvious that the writers had no idea about either so we get an odd movie about electronics causing ATMs to spit out money. Add in a conspiracy by a shadowy cabal to undermine the entire financial system and you have something approximating a coherent movie.

I like that the hacker in this is a woman though, and her sidekick is a goofy guy.

9. Hide and Seek (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQnucHby8Y

This movie is based on a sci-fi novel from 1977 but it is essentially a lower budget Canadian WarGames, there’s a certain charm to it though.

A high-school student hacker befriends a rogue AI and mischief ensues before the plot takes a hard left turn into averting nuclear disaster.

8. Takedown (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgDMYy9mzM

This movie about Kevin Mitnick caused so much controversy, as he was still in prison when they started filming it, that it never saw a proper release. You can find copies online though.

Skeet Ulrich is serviceable as Mitnick, Donal Logue is great as Lewis de Payne and if you can separate the film from the actual story and person it was based on and just see it as a work of fiction it becomes a lot more watchable.

7. Blackhat (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CA95Bzpy7s

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this movie, I watched it and then heard there was a director’s cut that was longer and more cohesive. I purchased a special edition Blu-ray so I could watch the director’s cut and I still don’t know how I feel about it.

A lot of people in the hacking scene hate it, but it looks great, it is very visually stylish and Mann seems really engaged with the subject matter. Chris Hemsworth is miscast though, or he was told to act in a way that renders his character an emotionless hulk for most of the movie.

6. The Net (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsHYQjHrhKY

I really like this movie, it meanders a bit in the middle but the overall concept is tight and if you can ignore the hand waving over whether any of it is technically possible you will have a good time.

Sandra Bullock is great and the plot captures genuine anxiety from the mid-90s as to how this thing called the internet was steadily encroaching on people’s lives and threatening to change society.

You can find a video I made about it over at the YouTube channel.

5. 23 (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDWU4RBtds

The first of two German hacker movies on this list, it is set in the 80s and really feels like it. I’ll warn you now though this is based on the real life case of young German hackers who handed data over to the Soviet government, it does not have a happy ending.

You may have trouble tracking down a copy with english subtitles for this one, I don’t think there is any dubbed version.

I’ve made a video on this movie over on my YouTube channel.

4. Masterminds (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5gtXzHnN7M

This is an action comedy with Patrick Stewart holding a school full of rich kids hostage while a teen hacker who was previously expelled from the school tries to thwart his plans.

The plot moves along quickly, there is a satisfactory amount of action and Patrick Stewart makes a wonderful villain, I recommend checking it out.

3. Enemy of the State (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mrRv-1khI

I recently rewatched this movie, having originally seen it in the cinema when it came out with my local 2600 meetup, and I still like it. The concerns over privacy seem really outdated now, as we all hand over so much data to corporations and the government.

It is a solid movie about a man (Will Smith) who isn’t the most technically minded person finding himself up against a vast and nefarious surveillance apparatus. Plus you get Jamie Kennedy and Jack Black as smart ass government hackers, I feel like both of them played similar roles in multiple movies.

2. Who Am I (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vnjheCqRIs

The second German movie on this list, I love this movie. A dark thriller about a young man who joins a sort of Anonymous like hacker group, has various thrills and spills with them before disaster strikes.

A little bit Mr Robot, you need to check this movie out if you like your hacker movies with tangled plots and absolutely soaked in paranoia.

1. The Steal (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxvGaIK2eE

I only discovered this movie recently and until it appeared on some streaming services it was quite hard to track down.

It is a whimsical British crime caper involving a free spirited American con artist and an uptight British computer programmer being pursued by a British aristocrat, while they try to drain bank accounts belonging to an evil corporation.

Hacking and social engineering play a heavy role in the movie and I love the cast.

You can watch the entire movie on YouTube, linked above.

Conclusion

I was going to include some honorable mentions here, but honestly there are so many movies I could have added to this list that a follow up blog is inevitable.

If you enjoyed this blog head on over to Bluesky for similar thoughts on hackers in pop culture.

#23 #Blackhat #EnemyOfTheState #film #films #Germany #hackers #hacking #HideAndSeek #history #KevinMitnick #list #Masterminds #Mitnick #Movies #PrimeRisk #Sneakers #Swordfish #Takedown #TheNet #TheSteal #WarGames #WarGames #Webmaster #WhoAmI_

This:

via @bruces

https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115054842756129105

reminded me of this:

https://youtu.be/Eme5A7qZ37k

note: Real "vibe coding/cracking" action starts roughly at 1:22 of that clip.

#Swordfish #movie #vibecoding

Как разработать CSI-драйвер с поддержкой Swordfish API и запустить его без железа

Контейнерные приложения все чаще требуют постоянного хранилища, будь то базы данных, кэш или файловые серверы. Но Kubernetes по умолчанию не «умеет» работать напрямую с системами хранения данных, в этом ему помогает CSI (Container Storage Interface). А если хочется управлять хранилищем через единый стандарт и без привязки к конкретному вендору, на помощь приходит спецификация Swordfish. В статье расскажем, как мы в лаборатории реализовали CSI-драйвер , поддерживающий спецификацию Swordfish и создали сервер-эмулятор, позволяющий тестировать и разворачивать такую систему без физического оборудования — и поделимся этим эмулятором , чтобы вы могли попробовать сами.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/yadro/articles/934084/

#software_engineering #swordfish #redfish #схд #хранение_данных #оптимизация

#Jellyfish are taking over the world – and #ClimateChange could be to blame

Jan 8, 2019
by Sean Fleming
Senior Writer, Forum Stories

"For 500 million years, jellyfish have been part of the maritime #ecosystem, but now they’re poised to take over the earth.

"They have no brain, no eyes, no spine, not even blood, but they have a remarkable capacity to reproduce and can pack an impressive sting, both literally and figuratively.

"Most recently, vast numbers of bluebottle jellyfish were pushed ashore by unusually strong winds and spells of hot weather in #QueenslandAustralia, stinging thousands of people and forcing the closure of popular swimming spots. About 13,000 stings were recorded in the past week.

"In June last year, over the course of just one week, over 1,000 people were stung in Volusia County, #Florida, following a period of exceptionally prolific jellyfish blooms. The explosion in their numbers has been attributed to warming seas and even increased pollution; unlike many other marine creatures, jellyfish can cope with reduced oxygen levels.

Small but deadly – at least some of the time

"Typically, jellyfish range in size from 1cm to 40cm. But they can be significantly larger – the #LionsManeJellyfish, for example, can reach 1.8 metres wide, with tentacles over 15 metres long.

"For the most part, the sting of a jellyfish is more unpleasant than it is harmful. The pain comes from venom delivered via millions of microscopic barbs in the creatures’ tentacles. Most jellyfish stings will only have a localized effect on the victim – redness, swelling, and discomfort where the barbs make contact with the skin.

"Some, however, will prompt a systemic, whole body, reaction. These may take several hours to emerge and can include symptoms such as headaches, nausea and drowsiness.

"In rare cases, the sting can be fatal. This is true of the #BoxJellyfish, which is spreading into waters that had previously been too cool to support it; its venom causes a severe reaction that can cause death within minutes.

A force of destruction

"But these booming jellyfish populations are doing far more harm than ruining people’s trips to the beach. In fact, the scope of their disruption has extended far beyond the water’s edge.

"In 2011, both reactors at the #TornessNuclearPowerPlant in #Scotland were shut down after an invasion of jellyfish started blocking the cooling filters. Two years later, the jellyfish struck again – this time in #Sweden. They forced the closure of the #OskarshamnNuclearPowerPlant, which contains the world’s largest boiling-water reactor.

"The island of Luzon, home of the Phillippines’ capital Manilla, suffered a blackout in 1999 due to jellyfish, and in 2006 the #USSRonaldReagan, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was brought to a standstill by thousands of the little creatures. And while these events may stand out as exceptions, they are increasing in both scale and frequency.

"From sea-bed diamond mining in Namibia to salmon farming in Ireland, even jeopardising the sustainability of beluga caviar farming in the Caspian Sea, jellyfish are as destructive as they are abundant. And that abundance is being caused by a variety of factors, many of which are related to human activity.

Some like it hot

"Over the last hundred or so years, the average surface temperature of the world’s seas has risen by about 0.9°C. As the oceans get warmer, marine animals are able to spread into areas that had historically been too cold. Oxygen levels in the sea have fallen by around 2% over the last 50 years, due to rising temperatures and #pollution [including #NuclearOceanDumping, which reduces oxygen levels]

"Jellyfish can thrive in areas with lower oxygen levels, where other animals suffer. But there are other factors at work, too. Fishing has depleted the global stocks of some of the jellyfish’s natural predators – such as #tuna and #swordfish – and some they compete with for food – such as anchovies. With more food and fewer predators, some jellyfish populations can grow unchecked.

"In the #BlackSea, unchecked population growth is precisely what’s happened. #AnchovyFishing in the region had caused harm to the Black Sea’s ecosystem by the time stowaway jellyfish made the journey there from the eastern seaboard of the USA. Most likely transported in the ballast water of ships that made the crossing, 1982 saw the arrival of the warty comb jelly. By 1990, there were 900 million tons of them in the Black Sea.

"There are believed to be around 200 different species of jellyfish, not all of which can sting, and some are considered edible. This could offer one potential, and creative, approach toward dealing with an over-abundance of jellyfish – co-opting them onto our dinner plates." [That's one way to deal with invasive species -- eat them into extinction!]

Source:
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/01/how-an-explosion-of-jellyfish-is-wreaking-havoc/

#GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans
#ChangingOceans #OceansAreLife #OceanTemperatures #ClimateCrisis #Overfishing #NoDeepSeaMining #NoNewNukes #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Oskarshamn #Torness

Photo of the Day 15th June 2025.

LS326, Fairey Swordfish Mk2, Royal Navy, rolling for take off on one of the runways at Manchester Barton during one of the annual air shows in the 1990s.

3 photos behind the link.
https://mancavgeek.co.uk/blog/photo-of-the-day-15th-june-2025/

#Manchester #Barton #EGCB #AirShow #Fairey #Swordfish #RoyalNavy
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography