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A comment on Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”.

Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by stuxnet79 on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:34PM (#11646543)
Sneakers came out before I was even born but now I feel compelled to watch this old, and perhaps cringe-worthy hacker movie. Hope it does not disappoint.
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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by steeef on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:41PM (#11646590)
"Cringe-worthy"? Hardly. You owe it to yourself to watch it. It's easily one of the best hacker movies.
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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by beachstartup on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:47PM (#11646631)
it's the best one, by far.
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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by oatmale on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:51PM (#11646653)
I'm partial to operation takedown which is a pretty solid representation of Kevin mitnick.
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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by serf on Friday May 06, 2016 @07:10PM (#11647363)
No way.

In that movie Mitnick was outright violent towards Shimomura (he wasn't in real life) , along with a few totally ficticious real-life encounters between the two.

Also, this movie depicted Mitnick destroying files and evidence (didn't happen).

The script was leaked during his defense. No good.

I understand movie magic and drama, but what a kicker to be trying to defend yourself legally while a Hollywood production glorifies you as a criminal while simultaneously injecting fiction into the true story.

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:30PM (#11647888)
It's not cringe-worthy. You'll enjoy it.
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