Hackers is known for referencing top-of-the-line computers of the time (now horribly, horribly outdated) and unrealistic depictions of hacking, but it nevertheless remains quite entertaining.
Belford is using the worm to quietly embezzle many millions of dollars from Ellingson. In a Contrived Coincidence, he downloads part of a worm program - one created by the crooked head of IT Security for Ellingson, Eugene "the Plague" Belford ( Fisher Stevens), himself a hacker gone pro. Not long after, Joey, the kid of the group, breaks into a supercomputer at Ellingson, a large oil and mineral conglomerate. Dade struggles to make friends, but ends up falling in with a new hacking crowd, including Phantom Phreak (Renoly Santiago), Cereal Killer ( Matthew Lillard), Lord Nikon ( Laurence Mason). In deference to his age, he is sentenced to seven years of probation, in which he is forbidden from owning or operating a computer or touch-tone telephone.įast forward seven years: Dade's mother, now divorced and with full custody of Dade ( Jonny Lee Miller), moves them both to New York for a fresh start. In a prologue flashback, Dade Murphy, age 11, going by the hacker alias Zer0 Cool, is found guilty of crashing 1,507 computers, and single-handedly causing a drop in the New York Stock Exchange.
A 1995 techno-thriller directed by Iain Softley, about a small group of underground computer hackers who discover a scheme being run by the security chief of a large corporation.
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