Hackers
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday..
- Director: * Iain Softley
- Genre:Action / Crime / Thriller
- Runtime:105 minutes
Cast
Jonny Lee Miller: Dade Murphy / ‘Crash Override’ / ‘Zero Cool’
Angelina Jolie : Kate Libby / ‘Acid Burn’
Jesse Bradford : Joey Pardella
Matthew Lillard : Emmanuel Goldstein / ‘Cereal Killer’
Laurence Mason : Paul Cook / ‘Lord Nikon’
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In 1988, Seattle youth Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is arrested and charged, at the age of 11, with crashing 1,507 systems in one day and causing a single-day 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange. Upon conviction, he is banned from owning or operating computers or touch-tone telephones until his 18th birthday.
Shortly before Dade turns 18, his mother (now divorced) takes a new job in New York City. Upon turning 18, Dade calls a local television station, dupes the security guard into giving him the modem’s phone number (using a tactic known as social engineering) and successfully hacks into the station’s computer network, changing the current tv program to an episode of The Outer Limits. However, Dade is “attacked” by a hacker on the same network, (who goes by the handle “Acid Burn”) and is eventually kicked off. During the conversation, Dade identifies himself by the new alias, Crash Override.
Dade enrolls Stanton High School, where he meets the beautiful Kate Libby (Angelina Jolie), who is responsible for taking him on a tour of the school. After being told of a “pool on the roof” (which results in Dade and several other students being locked on the roof during a rainstorm) and learning that Kate is “Acid Burn” a feud erupts between Dade and Kate. Their eventual hacking duel, which spans most of the film, is judged by Kate and Dade’s mutual friends in the hacking community, The Phantom Phreak, Cereal Killer and Lord Nikon. Read more
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