RealBohemian
After reading reviews, and more importantly, the message board, I decided to write a few lines.The movie is OK. Not entirely accurate, but OK.Terminology...that's another thing. I could post about that on the Board, except that I am informed I will have to give the site my telephone or credit card information to do so --and since there is no legitimate reason for that, it isn't happening. So for those who are considering watching the movie and would like a clarification, here goes. "Hacker" is the original term which existed far before the public internet. Back then it simply meant someone who understood the computer/network well enough to get into it and find or do anything. That sometimes meant an ability to bypass any and all security. Hackers were motivated by curiosity and a kind of professional passion, if you will --the simple wish to try to figure out the intricacies of whatever system they confronted. There were hackers who damaged systems back then; often these people took such action as breaking back into such systems to repair what they'd broken. They were not about doing anything malicious; they were about putting skill and knowledge to the test and figuring out new things.Later, when people bent on malice crept into the fold, hackers themselves termed those "dark-siders" (dark side hackers) and looked at them askance. Even later, outsiders started twisting the original term and inventing more, until few people had any idea what things had actually meant.But to know all this you have to go back far enough. Before the public internet. Before "PCs" (ie IBM clones). Etc.
Sheffield
Without going deep into the the story I can say that if you want to know about the real world under your computer and the privacy that never been out there you're In the right place. The movie Takedown will show you a small piece of hacking in the past and maybe the name "history of hacking" can be correct too.you can find some of the items from the movie in the spy-shops around so in my opinion just for the knowledge the movie must be seen. In the movie there are some point who are too stuck ,and some time there is no point for long focus in one position. I can see by the movie the vision of the creator ,and he did understand the story and the "How" not like many times in movies without any contact to the reality ,however he failed in focusing too much on the technology and mess the option to show how really hacker feel against and from the authorities.Enjoy
jorgen_veisdal13
The movie is fine, but what makes me flush it down the drain is that the people creating it portray it as a true story, when it is in fact BS! Kevin Mitnick never caused money loss or economical losses for the companies claimed. He sat locked down without contact to the world. 3 years without trial, probation or bail. FREE KEVIN. He did hack into companies to get code for the reason of doing it. This is a crime usually punished with a fine or a month in jail. Kevin sat inside until 2000, and got to use the internet not until 2003. This man is a hacker yes, not a cracker. The justice system is about who wins a case, the federal government or you. John Markoff at the NY Times made Kevin so famous with his ignorant articles that the government couldn't afford to loose this one. Kevin is a true product of the American ways, stupid morons that have no idea how to use a computer sit and try to educate the people who do, hackers, by using there money, influence and power to shut them down. Imagine the argument the government gave for Kevin being in solitary today, "if he so much as has access to a payphone, he can call a certain number and whistle a certain frequency to create a nuclear war". This is one of the reasons Kevin sat in jail for! What bullshit, big brother sees you and then some more. Free Kevin Mitnick.www.2600.comFREE KEVINWatch Freedom Downtime instead.
yoda_the_jedi
Although when i first watched the film i liked it. although i then found out the truth about the Kevin Mitchnick story. And this film is bull Pooh and doesn't portray the truth. if your interested watch freedom downtime i have seen it and they interview Kevin in it to get the truth don't go by the plot of this film. Also if anyone has any more information about Kevin and general stuff along these lines you can send to me greatly appreciated i thought id clear the rumour about it being a follow up of hacker its not can people please not make that assumption its not its an independent filmthanks Yoda_the_jedi Northamptonshire u.k
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