My vote is for R2-D2. He was constantly tapping into computer systems. He hacked the trash compactor in Episode IV, he also hacked into the elevators in Episode 3, and I'm sure a few others I am forgetting.

And, what about the villians in Live Free Or Die Hard?

And, what the hell is the trend with all new TV shows having a kid hacker?

In the pilot for Bionic Woman, Jaime's little sister isn't supppose to have a computer (So she hides it outside her window), because she got in trouble for hacking. (Although, they may have retconned it, as in a later episode, she is showing Jaime pictures on her computer, yet Jaime doesn't say anything about her having it.)

Now, in Terminator: TSCC, Sarah yells at John because he talks about the computers at school, and she reminds him, he not suppose to be hacking, else the government (and/or terminators) will find them.

Seriously, have you ever known any kid aged 12-18 that hacks? (I'm not talking about downloading games, that's piracy, and has nothing to do with hacking.) I mean sitting at thier computer writing code and running log tracers while trying to de-encrypt a remote systems sercurity?

It just doesn't happen. I would say that about 1 in 500,000,000 teenagers know anything about real hacking. Which means that at any given time, there is only about 16 kids in the world trying to break into other people's computers at any given time.

I would never consider myself a hacker either, but I was a cleaver dickhead.

In Jr High, there was one PC (IMB PS/2, IIRC) in the library that had a CD-ROM encyclopedia on it. Since nobody knew crap about PCs, I went in one day, renamed the AUTOEXEC.BAT to AUTOEXEC.BAK, and made a new one that simply contained:

CLS
TYPE C:\DOS\DATA0001.TMH
C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

DATA0001.TMH* was a text file I wrote that simply contained the text:

"ERROR CODE 117 - DISK OPERATING SYSTEM CAN NOT BE EXECUTED."

Then, I went home.

The next morning, I went into the Library and saw the Libraian scratching her head in front of the PC. (It was running my message loop.) I said, "Hey that's just a 117 error, those are easy to fix!" I sat down, deleted my modified AUTOEXEC and renamed the original back to normal, and rebooted the system. Strangely enough, it worked. The Libraian thanked my by giving me ten "coupons" for free ice cream bars at lunch.

Now that I think about it, I was a dickhead as a kid. I think if I ran into my youngerself, I would beat the shit outta me.

*The TMH file extension stood for "The Mad Hacker" which was the Handle I went by on many a BBS in the 80s/early 90s.

Char Aznable wrote:

What the hell kind of OS was that in Live Free or Die Hard? Now, THERE'S a movie that didn't know shit about computers.

Yeah, Hollywood always has hackers using super shiny GUI's, or worse, putting on VR helmets and gloves and then flying through "cyberspace" grabbing at computerized boxes and shit.

The reality is, true hackers are staring at a Unix/Linux command prompt, entering lines of code and commands.

I guess that's just not exciting enough, though.

The only movie that got that right, was Goldeneye, when Natalia was encrypting the Goldeneye's computer systems, and you just see her typing at a boring black and white DOS like console screen.

JRA wrote:

Nice ass though. Too bad its probably been worn out by Micheal Douglas.

You mean it's all covered in dust?