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> Hack the planet!

Honestly this reads as "how do you do, fellow kids?"

You found a cool bug, then immediately reported it. That's not what the movie is about at all. Please don't corporatize hacker culture.

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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

The kinds of people who do these exploits and cash in on them tend not to write blog posts about it on their personal website that links to their real-world LinkedIn.

You commented this on a site named "Hacker News" run by a venture capital firm

lol, "fellow kids" being people who get a roughly 30 year old movie reference.

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