I liked that movie. As long as you take into consideration that not everything they do in that movie is based on FACT(for some reason people we getting pissed off that when they were "hacking" it was all swirly colors etc...) I mean seriously who wants to sit and watch people code for a few hours? I mean seriously I may be a geek but I dont think that would be a good movie.
Sooo they take some liberties with how hackers actually do stuff, and in doing so they show hackers in a good light. Most hackers are white hat you know. You dont hear about them because they are the ones keeping you safe from the big bad evil hackers that the media shows all the time to make you hate hackers. You know those nasty virus's that you got in that email attatchment that you then proceeded to send to everyone in your address book? Who do you think it is that kills the virus, puts out patches that block the virus from doing its job, and track down the person that released it in the first place?
HOLY CRAP!!! You mean it was HACKERs that did that?