[HN Gopher] Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy
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Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy
Author : dcminter
Score : 48 points
Date : 2023-12-09 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (archive.org)
| beej71 wrote:
| Awesome! Love this movie, and had no idea this existed.
| dcminter wrote:
| Same - I just now discovered it existed; it was mentioned on
| the Sneakers wikipedia page and I just love that stuff like
| this has been archived.
| wslh wrote:
| One of the best hacker movies ever. The involvement of Leonard
| Adleman (the A in RSA) in the movie [1].
|
| He said: "I would do the scene if my wife Lori could meet
| [Robert] Redford"
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| [1] https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
| lll-o-lll wrote:
| Thanks for that, it's interesting. It seems that his
| involvement was just for the one lecture scene though? The
| movie itself is chock full of references to nerd, hacker,
| conspiracy, and security knowledge. Anyone know how they did
| all the research for this film?
| djbusby wrote:
| Many writers/studios get a technical consultant. Sometimes
| your writer friend will ask for help, other times you'll get
| an introduction from some VFX house you're working for and
| others it's your wife's-friends-husbands-boss.
| ranting-moth wrote:
| 1992. It was relatively safe to run an .exe from a reputable
| company. Surely a reputable company wouldn't mess with your
| computer.
|
| 2005. I'm playing this music CD in my computer. Sony: hang on,
| I'm install a rootkit on your computer without your knowledge.
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