Hacker - The Film 

Directed by Iain Softley 

Produced by Michael Peyser

Release Date: September 15, 1995

 Hackers is a 1995 American crime film. The film inspired by a true event, Directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Made in the 1990s when the internet was unfamiliar to the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto  quoted in the film: "This is our world now... the world of the electron  and the switch. We exist without skin color, without nationality,  without religious bias... and you call us criminals.

Real story:  In 1988, 11-year old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy is arrested and charged  with crashing 1,507 computer systems in a single day and causing a  single-day 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange.  His family is fined $45,000 for the events and he is banned from using  computers or touch-tone telephones until he is 18 years old. Seven years  later, Dade (Jonny Lee Miller), is now living with his divorced mother in New York City. On Dade's 18th birthday, he receives a computer and uses social engineering to hack into a local television station's computer network, changing the current TV program to an episode of The Outer Limits. However, Dade's intrusion is countered by another hacker on the same network, and they briefly converse, with Dade identifying himself by a new alias: "Crash Override".  [More watch the movie]

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