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Re:The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago by itintheory on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:19AM (#32867278)
> Hackers shows the career guys as lame and high strung, but the hobbyists (or as Razor and Blade put it, those hacking as a survival trait) as cool and having fun.

I think The Plague was having fun.

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Re:The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago by eddieroger on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:48AM (#32867778)
He was only having fun when he was playing cat and mouse with the hackers (or just playing with Lorraine Bracco). When he was in his office being a boring IT guy, he was not enjoying it, nor was Penn Jillette when the Gibson was under attack and his boss was breathing down his neck. The Plague was having fun, but Eugene Belford was not.
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Re:The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago by derac on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:16PM (#32869162)
Yes, the whole plot of the movie is his plan to ransom money and get out of the rat race.
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