shadowvexNice resource especially for off the beaten path cinema!
Negative PID SLHackers have been portrayed in movies since the beginning of the Internet era. However, Hollywood has pushed clichés that are far from reality. Here, we have gathered a collection of the best movies on hacker culture based on how accurately they portray hacking and its culture. Spoiler alert: brace yourself for a vintage night!
Rob PegoraroWeekly output: AI data centers, Stasi Museum, Sneakers, Brendan Carr on censorship, Mark Vena podcast
After a week at home, I’m back on a plane early Monday morning for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. That company is covering my airfare and lodging, its usual arrangement for the event it hosts at a high-end resort, and I’ll include a disclosure about that in all the copy I file about the summit.
In other business-travel news, Patreon readers got a bonus post this week from a trip that they helped underwrite: a recap of the Online News Association’s conference in New Orleans.
9/15/2025: AI’s Dirty Secret Lies in Fossil Fuels Powering the Future of Artificial Intelligence, Worth
I missed this story when it was published because (ahem…) an editor spelled my last name wrong in the byline, leading to it not showing up on my author page. But anyway: Even if you’re as late to discovering this online as I was, I encourage you to read it and remember two questions to ask about any new data-center project: Will its electricity come from burning polluting fossil fuels, and are its owners paying for new generation capacity to avoid stressing the existing power grid?
9/15/2025: Berlin’s Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion, PCMag
Even though my previous visit in 2018 happened with the same president in the White House, the museum’s exhibits hit in a much different way this time.
9/16/2025: Why the Robert Redford Classic ‘Sneakers’ Is a Favorite in Cybersecurity Circles, PCMag
I had borrowed a DVD of this 1992 flick from my local library in March, which turned out to be good timing for the piece that I realized I needed to write the day after Redford’s death.
9/19/2025: The FCC Chairman Was Against Censorship Before He Was for It, PCMag
As I’ve written more than once here before, I hate abuse of power, and the chance to call it out gets me awake in the morning.
9/19/2025: EP 115 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple’s Awe Dropping Event, new iPhones and IFA 2025 takeaways, Mark Vena
My major contribution to this episode was discussing the popularity of balcony solar power in Germany–and its absence in the U.S.
12/11/2015: Updated the post to add a post that had escaped my attention in a particularly embarrassing manner.
#balconySolar #BrendanCarr #EastGermany #hackerMovies #JimmyKimmel #MarkVena #Qualcomm #RobertRedford #SnapdragonSummit #Sneakers #StasiMuseum #surveillance #TooManySecrets
c-base e.V.TONIGHT 20:00 at c-base: Screening of "Hacking at Leaves", Johannes Grenzfurthner's latest movie
more info: https://logbuch.c-base.org/archives/5296
BSidesNYCCheck out this @BSidesNYC 0x03 interview by Preeti Ravindra with Erik Cabetas where he discusses how BSidesNYC is different from the other New York conferences, how he started @IncludeSecurity, and what it's like to consult for #hacker movies.
BSidesNYC 0x03 interview with Erik Cabetas
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Watching #hackermovies all night for the New Year and realized I’ve watched more than I thought … also I don’t know why take down is so funny to me 😂
Dustin [BusySignal-KE2EFX]I can see why the Hackers vs. Sneakers movie debate is so strong.
I can also see why they both have such a significant passion around each of them.
Let me hash it out - tell me if you agree.
Hackers.
This brings those that were on that side of the scene back to nostalgia. The times of phone phreaking and dialers, undocumented phone numbers, accessing local known BBS and unknown wardialed places. Hanging out with friends, raves and parties, the outcasts in their own clique of "don't care" who thinks things.
Was it elaborate over stated visuals fore dialing up into computers? Far Fetched a bit in the hacking with ease of doing things like credit card canceling and people who were very much alive but now deceased.
Yes - of course it was. However from that time were people that closed their eyes and would hope that traveling through the telco wires and connecting to the computers would look like that if they could extend themselves into the systems they were connecting to.
Sneakers.
This is for the grown-ups, that were already on the other side of the Phone Phreaks, the ones learning how to defend and break up the dial ins, the calls and the mischief. The ones who were already in the system wishing they could "go home again" and be the same. The Sneakers team has a mission, ethics, discussions on right and wrong. Attacking and defending and working for the way that benefits humanity and safety.
The Sneakers are now, what once were the Hackers. They are past the mischief, the causing trouble, and using that knowledge to defend and do what is right for the world order of security and ethics because they were once the Hackers.
#Movies #HackerMovies #HackingIsNotACrime #StoryTime #NetworkSecurity #Cyber #CyberCrime #CyberSecurity #2600 #OffTheHook #CerealKiller #Whistler #Sneakers #Hackers #SetecAstronomy
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