The movie Hackers was a seminal film for one of the two Dads… at this point it’s probably obvious who, but I’ll let you find out inside. In this episode we try something a little new and invite two other parents to be a part of the fun… The 2 Moms!
We had a fun time discussing this movie, there was a lot more to dig into than I thought there would be. Some of the group were finding this 90’s nostalgia bomb for the first time and it was glorious. listen in to our discussion on the longest episode ever!
Hackers Soundtrack
List of the Books
- Green: International UNIX Environments, probably part of POSIX or The X/Open Guide.
- Orange: Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, part of the Rainbow Series published by the US DoD.
- Pink: The Peter Norton Programmer’s Guide to the IBM PC (Peter Norton wears a pink shirt in the cover photo, as can be seen in this Wikipedia article).
- The devil book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels and John S. Quarterman.
- The dragon book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. (People who read the dragon book before 1986, or who were told about it by someone who did, would recognise Principles of Compiler Design as the dragon book instead. The dragon’s colour is used to distinguish the various incarnations of the book: the 1977 edition is the green dragon book, the 1986 edition seen in the film is the red dragon book, the 2006 second edition is the purple dragon book.)
- Red: Trusted Network Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, also part of the Rainbow Series.
Gallery of Posters
Hackers is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in an attempted theft. Made in the mid-1990s when the Internet was just starting to become popular among the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film: "This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch... We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals... Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity."