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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.

One of my all time favourite movies.



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.


IMDb has a nice list of filming locations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/locations

Was Setec one of the locations? Is that where they did the handoff with the fake FBI folks?

I remember Playtronics was the one large building they broke into.


Setec Astronomy is just a code name of the project, not an actual place.


I don't own an acquatic car that has enough mileage to get from Sydney to Oakland :-(


Playtronics was the office they were headed to.




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