Last week, the latest piece in the Hacker Stories series, “That I Never Came Up with a Title,” was released. And during the 2 months that I worked on it, I somehow or for some reason had a desire to watch something based on it.
Therefore, I plunged headlong into the niche of TV series and cinema, although it was slightly reminiscent of the narrative of what was being told. in the materials earlier. The result was surprisingand I’m ready to share it with you.
Tetris. The story of the chief programmer of the Soviet Union
Copyright War in one of the main gaming industries I’ve been asking for a long time to be filmed, to be honest. Only here’s a nuance – “Tetris” 2022 is not a documentary, but rather a political thriller with a fairly high level of fiction and assumptions.
However, it is known that Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov also positively assessed the work of both the screenwriters and Nikita. Efremova, actress who played the role of the chief programmer of the Soviet Union.
So about the same movie in the end. The plot is not centered on the development of the cult game itself, but on what happened after. The main events take place in 1988, when Hank Rogers, a game designer from Bullet-Proof Software, saw the Tetris game at CES in Las Vegas.
Realizing that the benefits and fame from the popularity of the game appear to almost everyone, except Pajitnov himselfRogers decides to help him restore justice and enters into a real corporate war against Microsoft, Sega and even the Soviet intelligence services.
Mister Robot. A story about depression, social anxiety and cyberwar against corporations
Somehow everyone in the world decided that “Mr. Robot” is one of the best TV series about the IT industry in recent years. His proposal is first and foremost realistic. The creators show that hacking a security system is not a matter of chaotic key turns, like in action movies, long and long. complex process of searching for vulnerabilities.
At the center of the local story is one Elliot Alderson (who plays the awesome Rami Malek, by the way) – a man of outstanding skills in the field of programming and cybersecurity. But with a nuance: the guy, frankly speaking, serious problems with the head – from completely clinical depression to attacks of paranoid delusion and unreasonable aggression.
In addition to this, with the hero’s face, a certain Mr. Robot is the leader of a large hacker group Fsociety. All he needs from Elliot is his truly outstanding abilities for one thing – to destroy the largest corporation in the world.
Source code. Not really about hackers, but about cyberspace and technology
“Source Code” can hardly be called a film about hackers or even programming, but at its heart lies a very interesting one. In theory, the main role is played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
The premise is this: the main character, using a program, is placed in a simulation based on in the last difficult lives a man who died in a horrific terrorist attack. The hero’s task, at first glance, is simple: in a few minutes you need to find the terrorists’ method and figure it out. sympathizers – all in order to prevent a new tragedy.
But the main question of the film actually lies on a different plane. What is simulation and where is reality? What is Gyllenhall’s character really like, and is there any way to hack the source code to reset the simulation timer?
Who Am I? This is a drama about the weakest link in IT security.
Who do you think is the weakest link in any company’s security chain? Those who have read my series know the answer. The weakest point in IT security is people. Don’t underestimate the role of persuasion, deception, and serious engineering in general.
Benjamin Engel was shy in his youth and only felt confident at the computer. But his life changed dramatically after meeting a group of young hackers: Max, Stefan and Paul. For them, hacking computer systems became first a way to express themselves, and then to change the world.
At the end of the film what happened will be called “An elegant hack in the history of social engineering“
Nation of Assassins. The strangest combination of ideas of hacker activism and witch hunts
Sam Levinson is primarily known for his work on the provocative world-opening series Euphoria. actresses Khan Schafer and Sydney Sweeney. But some time before that, he released a movie that probably combines the strangest mix of genres – social drama, thriller, comedy and narrative that suddenly evokes the aesthetics of the Salem witch hunt.
And in general, many things in local history are the consequences of the actions of an unknown hacker.
Actually, what is the point? The focus is on the city of Salem, where in this case personal data is being leaked from cloud storage and social networks. A certain hacker first denounces the mayor of the city, and then exposes the director of the local school as a fan of children more than necessary, and to finish off he leaks correspondence and photos (including any understanding) of literally all the residents of the city.
The story is told from the perspective of schoolgirl Lily, who suddenly collapsed. dangerous for what happened.
Not everything tells how to hack, but a lot shows the consequences
Probably everyone here expected see something different“like Silicon Valley” or something similar. But honestly, it’s boring. I, in turn, tried to collect, first of all, things that show not so much the process as the process, but rather the consequences, another inspiring story and one extremely unusual setting, yes.
I suggest you actively write your own examples in the comments, maybe in the process we’ll find some cool hidden gem.
I am voicing this thought to you. Have a good day!
Source: Iphones RU
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