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Re: List of Movies with security emphasis (in reply to: Hacking/security in main-stream media)


From: Mattias Sandström <Mattias.Sandstrom () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:12:24 +0200

2 more movies that comes to my mind is

Dreiundzwantzig 
about a hackergroup in the 80's selling info to KGB etc somewhat true story

Antitrust 
big software company kiling ppl over html codes..




On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:52:31 +0200, saphyr <saphyr () infomaniak ch> wrote:
List of movies containing scenes of interest for educational purpose
on information security...Let's complete it as much as we can then
flag the mail out ; )

.antoine

(don't forget to update the date!)

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Hackers
- 0 days
- distributed denial of service
- virus

Jurassic Park
- insider threat (the programmer gets the system to bypass
security while he steals the DNA/embryos)

Matrix
- backdoors
- exploits (ssh)

Operation Swordfish
- brute force attack
- virus

Sneakers
- Cryptography (when the team discovers it's a crypto box they have

Takedown
- Social engineering

The Net
- Personally identifiable information (main characters personal information
is deleted

War Games
- passwords directly related to the personnality are easily guessed
- lack of authentication failure monitoring
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