[ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

Documentaries comment reminds me of an old one called "The CIA, the KGB and Me" about a guy who discovered East German hackers accessing CIA computer via his mainframe.  He found them due to the fact there was "time" used on the computer he couldn't figure out to which department in his company it should be billed.   That appeals to me as an ex-bean counter as well as an IT person.  

Hollywood movies being clueless:  The original Jurassic Park where the little girl is going to undo what the professional admin did to sabotage the computers.   A funny moment though was when she sits down and says something like "Ugh, it's UNIX".


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From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Simba via Ale
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

Oh man you should see it! Cereal Killer is my fave ;)

Sandra Bullock is cool. The only thing I liked about that film if I remember...

Mr. Robot may be an exception but it's lightyears ahead of what the 1990s were like. And it also a phenomenal production in general, those two things seem to go hand in hand.

I don't expect folks who make their careers in filmography or sound or casting actors and so forth to be computer experts, but I have a lot more respect for productions which consult with experts for accuracy.

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On 9/24/18 11:54 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:43 PM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org 
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Yeah but The Net was stupid. Hackers was at least funny :) All the
>     characters are lovable and it doesn't even try to take the technology
>     seriously.
> 
>     Of course it's worth remembering that back then literally none of those
>     "hollywood" people knew anything about computers. They weren't trying to
>     be ironic or anything, it just turned out that way.
> 
> 
> I never saw Hackers. I'm not going to argue the merits of The Net. I 
> didn't particularly like it, but I didn't particularly hate it either. 
> I do kind of like Sandra Bullock though.
> 
> Alas, those Hollywood people haven't improved much. There are some 
> fairly respectable representations of technology in the media now, but 
> there's also still a lot of crap.
> 
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