Seriously, this is the smartest, most interesting, and oddly the most accurate movie I've ever watched about computer and network security. And it was hugely entertaining, compelling and exciting!
This movie introduced a lot of people to cryptography, tiger teams and ethical cracking/hacking. Also, it had Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and River Phoenix.
If you want to do a road trip, the Sneakers office was in the second floor of the Fox Theater in Oakland. No idea where Seatec Astronomy was. Maybe Fremont.
For the people who want to try this on OS X run `locate ncurses.h` to see if you have the ncurses library. If you have Xcode installed, you should have it in a few places. Then update the Makefile, set `NCURSES_H = {dir}` and it should make and install just fine.
I really like this, too... I have this movie (and others including Antitrust and, yes, Hackers) in my "night time playlist" for when my wife goes back home to visit family for a few weeks each summer and Christmas. It is a very comfortable movie for me.
I loved that movie too, and I find it holds up far better than a lot of technologically-minded fare from the early 90's. It was one of those allstar casts that really got some mileage from the various personalities and styles, I think.
I just finished re-watching _Sneakers_ last night and while it didn't hold up to my memory, I was again mesmerized by Whistler's reconstructing the route taken by the car in which Bishop had been abducted.
I racked my brain but couldn't figure out which bridge Bishop's abductors had crossed. The web came to my rescue.[0]
One of my earliest machine language programs was an experiment to see how fast a 1 MHz Apple II+ could count to a million. The code initialized some characters in the display buffer to ASCII '0' and then incremented them directly.
Sneakers was just as much about social engineering as it was its technical nature. I love this movie. I think I must listen to is as I work a few times a month.
One thing I took away from this movie is Whistler able to solve pieces while listening. It showed me that I should always listen first and interject my input after :-)
Sneakers came out before I was even born but now I feel compelled to watch this old, and perhaps cringe-worthy hacker movie. Hope it does not disappoint.
In that movie Mitnick was outright violent towards Shimomura (he wasn't in real life) , along with a few totally ficticious real-life encounters between the two.
Also, this movie depicted Mitnick destroying files and evidence (didn't happen).
The script was leaked during his defense. No good.
I understand movie magic and drama, but what a kicker to be trying to defend yourself legally while a Hollywood production glorifies you as a criminal while simultaneously injecting fiction into the true story.
Nah, The Matrix code was the last screensaver we ever needed. Even nostalgia for Sneakers doesn't make the effect cooler. Probably just that the Matrix makes better background noise, tricking your mind into spotting patterns.
At first sight I thought the movie was from 2016, since "Title (Year)" is a very common way of mentioning movies, but this movie is from 1992, so that's not it.
Because when searching in 2017+ knowing the year of the article might be nice. With the Wayback Machine and its ilk around the Internet is not ephemeral.
Most posts are contemporary, which means you can use the post date to figure out the year of the article without clogging up the list of titles with (2016)
I love this. I love the movie. It's geeky and I went on a date to see this movie with a female friend of mine at the time (we weren't girl/boy friend at that time). Now she is my wife of almost 20 years (2017). IT was playing at the Midway Theater in Forest Hills NY.
This movie introduced a lot of people to cryptography, tiger teams and ethical cracking/hacking. Also, it had Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and River Phoenix.
One of my all time favourite movies.