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		glimshe 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the ori... The movies you mentioned were far from any type of hacker culture. They were much more about the power of computers, then a mysterious machine people knew little about.

aa-jv 7 months ago [–]

War Games is literally about a hacker.

Tron is literally about a hacker.

Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks.

Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.

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