There is of course the movie about hackers, which is Hackers. But what we think of when we think about hackers has changed a great deal over time. They may have started as goobers in basements, then reached leather-clad heights in The Matrix, only to be conscripted by the government in Blackhat. Representation of hackers has changed as our relationship to computers has changed. It’s been a wild ride. Here’s more from Terranova Security:
We’ve added some takeaways along with helpful resources for you to several of these amazing movies. Read on to discover where fiction meets reality in the world of cyber security.
1. The Conversation (1974)
Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who gets in over his head when a routine job spying on a couple quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. Widely considered Francis Ford Coppola’s best non-Godfather film, it’s a taut exploration of how a lack of data (or physical office) security can hold lives in the balance.
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