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It's strange this comment is being downed, because the "Hack the planet" quote from the movie (Hackers, 1995) and the tone of the entire movie is individual hacker vs corporate hacker. There is no way the main protagonist (Dade Murphy) would have disclosed a security vulnerability to the any of the companies in the movie. The quote in question is yelled by Dade while he is being dragged away by federal agents after saying "They're trashing" as a hint to the floppy disk he hid near the trash.

Disagree with what the poster is saying if you want, but he is accurate that the quote is being misused IMO



That's fair, although that movie is itself a little bit "how do you do, fellow hackers?"


You take that back, the film Hackers is a 100% accurate portrayal of the life of all hackers.


It's 10% exploiting zero days, 90% deploying demoscene animations




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