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               When I think about movies with computers as their base I always thing about the movie

Hackers.  Hackers came out in 1995 when the internet was unfamiliar to everyone.  The movie

follows a group of computer hackers that are out to take down a giant corporation.  During the movie

the group of hackers have a competition between themselves.  In the competition two of the group go

head to head to see who the better hacker is.  they go on to control things like credit card

information, traffic lights, ATM's, and the lights on an office building.



               All of the thing that the hackers do in the film hackers can do today and more.  In the movie

it does not really show the hackers writing code, it shows them traveling through the inner workings

of the computer.  I think the movie does a good job showing what hackers can do and how much

damage they can do.  Today can accomplish a lot of damage, one incident that I am familiar with

is the crash of the Playstaion Network.  The Playstation Network was down for about two weeks

and everyone was worried about their credit card information that they use to purchase items

in the Playstation Store.  Sony found out that the crash was due to a hacker group.

Since the crash Sony had to rework their security for their network and apoligize for their lack of

security.


             A lot of movies that focus on what computers can do in the future like Minority Report,

I don't think Minority Report is a look into our soon to be future.  I think it will take a long time

to get to that kind of look in to the future technology.  The film The Matrix also has a story line

that I don't think we will be seeing in our future.  Although it would be cool if we were able to

 be sucked in to a computer world and learn anything with a port attached to our necks.


               With the movie Hackers I think it is a more true to life look into the future of what

hackers can do.