One Friday he asked if he could take one home to mess with it-and found a memory corruption vulnerability in its software that he spent an entire spring break learning to exploit. A year later, he was working as a systems administrator for an ultra-early social media company called, which had a few extra Sun Microsystems workstations lying around.

Most of all, The Matrix captures the feeling of hacking, says Dai Zovi, who first saw the film when he was a 19-year-old college student.

“And even though you, the programmer, didn't mean to allow that, it's possible because I can inspect what's really going on under the surface.” “I can use The Matrix to explain, well, that's the woman in the red dress that everybody sees, but a hacker can see the code that renders that woman and change the color of her dress,” says Katie Moussouris, a renowned security researcher and CEO of Luta Security. As other hacker films ossify, turning into computer cat-and-mouse-game time capsules, The Matrix has become the most abiding, popular, and relevant portrayal of hacking-a brain-plug jacked so deeply into our cultural conception of the genre that we've almost forgotten it's there. With a couple of decades of hindsight, however, it's well past time to recognize that The Matrix has in some ways eclipsed that triumvirate. “I definitely came out with the feeling: Our people made a film.”įor years the generally accepted canon of classic hacker movies has been a kind of holy trinity: 1983's WarGames, with its digital delinquent caught up in Cold War geopolitics the 1992 computers-and-cryptography heist film Sneakers and 1995's teen cyber-hijinks thriller Hackers. Neo seemed chosen to undertake his superheroic journey because he understood that “by interfacing with this black screen with glowing green writing on it, he could change the world in ways that it was not necessarily meant to be changed,” says Galperin, who works today as the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Galperin felt it represented the experience of hacking in a way she'd never seen before.

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