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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/swordfish
A recently-ex-con world-renown hacker is swept into the well-planned efforts to fund long-term anti-terrorist terrorism.
I-like-hyphens.
Ignoring the Hollywood-hacker bullshit, it's a good movie, particularly because so few, at least at its release, would be so A-class and yet have this particular topic. It helps shape the understanding of the passion behind Lawful Evil.
- Not related to the fish Swordfish.
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Partially playing off of the Swordfish (password).
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1:15 --
- Dog Day Afternoon - (1975 movie)
- Al Pacino - (actor)
- Scarface - (1983 movie)
- The Godfather - (1972 movie)
- Sidney Lumet
- Cinematography
- Acting
- Screenplay
- 2:15 -- Internet
- 3:00 -- The camera focus bullshit is annoying.
- 8:30 -- That CGI has always bothered me.
- 11:00 -- Washington, D.C. United States
- 11:00 -- Axel Torvalds, where Torvalds is probably leveraging Linus Torvalds' name.
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11:15 --
- 12:00 -- Midland, Texas United States
- 13:00 -- National Security Agency
- 13:15 -- "Chi" = Qi
- 13:45 -- This scene is brought to you by Heineken.
- 16:00 -- Yeah, mothers own their children.
- 16:15 -- United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
- 16:45 -- Pornography, Southern California, Film finance
- 17:30 -- Fluffer
- 18:13 -- Judas Iscariot
- 19:30 -- IKEA
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20:00 --
- A better question would be why a hacker, by their very nature and requirement being intelligent, would get caught so easily.
- Survivor (U.S. TV series)
- 25:00 -- TODO? - All of the Finnish would need to be subtitled.
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27:30 --
- This scene is brought to you by Dell.
- Dial-up Internet access sound.
- 27:45 -- Eww. Never kiss them on the mouth.
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28:00 --
- DOD = United States Department of Defense
- "d base" might mean "database".
- 128-bit Encryption
- 28:45 -- Rape. But that's okay, women can't rape.
- 30:00 -- They could at least had him type.
- 31:30 -- Why the fuck would there be a Red star and a Hammer and sickle on the doors?
- 35:30 -- Computer worm
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35:45 --
- Cipher
- Gilbert Vernam
- Vernam cipher is a one-time pad.
- 36:15 -- How does one get ten million dollars and have ten million dollars and use ten million dollars?
- 38:15 -- This was blatant and pointless toplessness when I first saw this, and this continues to be true each time I see it.
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39:00 -- No girl dresses like that. She'd be picked on something fierce, or this hipster bullshit would have to be all the rage. Seeing all the people passing by her, that look is not not popular, so it makes no sense that she'd have it.
- Yes, this bothers me.
- 42:45 -- It's not just a matter of asking "where would he go?" but that even in the best circumstance, he wouldn't be with his daughter.
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45:30 --
- Reading emails is akin to, and abuses, telephone tapping laws, bending lawful interception laws.
- ISP = Internet service provider
- His actions would fall under, in his mind, "ethical hacking". See White hat (computer security).
- 46:15 -- Los Angeles United States, Disneyland
- 47:15 -- Again with the obvious, exaggerated and distractingly-unnecessary unclothedness.
- 49:30 -- Espresso
- 51:00 -- Again with the fucking refocus.
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52:15 --
- 53:30 -- A problem. A problem like you're using a floppy disk. Even back then it would have been strange.
- 55"45 -- These visual scenes in "hacker movies" are just so fucking stupid.
- 58:45 -- Harry Houdini, Misdirection (magic)
- 1:00:30 -- Manual transmission
- 1:03:30 -- Bend, Oregon United States
- 1:04:30 -- His little too-long soul patch is crooked.
- 1:07:15 -- J. Edgar Hoover
- 1:12:00 -- Leaving his prints everywhere..
- 1:13:00 -- The skip between him looking at the card and resuming the movie from the intro has a gap in plot. I guess the audience is meant to assume he calls and is brought in and is somehow given over.
- 1:16:30 -- Cipher, firewall, wut.
- 1:19:30 -- Stan doesn't need to be there any more.
- 1:23:15 -- The Sugarland Express - (1974 movie)
- 1:29:30 -- Mossad, Israel
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1:32:00 -- Monte Carlo
~2005-11-05 ∞
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1:10:45 -- Those are Dell servers. =)
The end credits calls the final password "vernum" (probably a DVD-ROM thing)
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