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Re:'Hackers' at 20 by nailer on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:18AM (#10225313)
> it's far better and more realistic than the majority of movie-style "hacking" scenes.

In Ex Machina the main character appears writes a field sieve in Python to break some crypto. The code doesn't actually do that but it's still decent.

A bunch of older movies featured nmap.

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Re:'Hackers' at 20 by CPLX on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:18AM (#10225492)
And newer ones too. This is a fun link if you haven't seen it: https://nmap.org/movies/
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