The original video by Joe Grand: https://youtu.be/o5IySpAkThg
I had to stop watching because of all the cringy tweenertainment funny faces and jerky body movements and hands waving all over the place.
I agree with you that entertainment has taken over too much (it inevitably attracts a wider audience), but there is room for both.
me: closes YouTube.
However, it goes to show why hacking will never be made interesting in movies without a bunch of fake nonsense like hacking the Gibson's 3D virtual environment.
One is flying through the holographic city of files.
The other depiction is quite realistic: they show the protagonist spending all night reading through many pages of assembly to reverse engineer a virus, people do social engineering, etc. “Hackers” made this seem cool too!
"Hackers" - 1995
Sneakers had them going through the trash, setting up a mark on a fake date, and staking out a building and the security company it used with all sorts of stuff not once looking at a computer screen to "hack" three years earlier.
I like Hackers for the campy side of things, but Sneakers will still take a higher spot on my list.
That ssh exploit was so cool...