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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies
I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen all the inaccuracies in the way the courtroom proceedings were portrayed. I feel the same way about hacking and computer security in the movies. In 1983's "WarGames", the US nuclear command is apparently connected to a modem...
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