ok, i read every “hacker” book i can get my hands on. i use the term “hacker” in the real sense, but i’ll check out the “cracker” ones on occasion as well. some of my favs are hackers: heroes of the computer revolution and the cuckoo’s egg. i’m currently reading the fugitive game, which is a better look into kevin mitnick than takedown was. takedown was told from tsutomu shimomura standpoint, who sort of led police to mitnick after being hacked by mitnick himself. takedown was co-authored by john markoff who had really put out some bull shit about mitnick over the years - although i still have enjoyed reading a few of his books.

anyway… there had been many reports of a movie based on takedown and i come across various entries in movie databases, but never saw the movie itself. well, thanks to my buddy tony, i’m watching it right now. while it’s gone under different names, such as “hackers 2: takedown”, etc., it’s officially just “takedown”.

i’m about 40 minutes into it and so far it’s been laugh-able in many respects. i’ll need to re-read takedown to refresh my memory of the story, but i don’t think the story goes like what i’m watching. i hate when they use the term “based on the book” - so i guess that means they can screw the story up as much as they want. amanda peet is hot, though.

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ok, just finished watching it. i’m always interested to see how the movies and tv will portray the act of “hacking code”. there weren’t too many images or equations floating around like in the movie hackers, so that’s a plus. but the story seemed too flat - one dimensional or something. i can deal with them wanting to protray mitnick as evil - i don’t like it, but i’ve come to accept it - but the movie needed more.