It's a tale as old as Usenet: someone posts a war story; a bug gets fixed.
It's 2025. I suspect that DJB would agree that fake IP addresses used by Sandra Bullock in a movie 30 years ago should not actually work in real tools because of unchecked integer overflow. (-:
So I've patched ip4_scan() and this will be in the next release of #djbwares.
It has been eons since I last watched these two movies. Deep in my head, I had this impression that Hackers has the more accurate presentation of hacking and cybersecurity. Turns out it was The Net instead.
#movies #Hackers #TheNet #1995 #1995nostalgia
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Today, March 29, in 1995, reclusive systems analyst Angela Bennett is issued a temporary passport under the name Ruth Marx after her identity and life are stolen by hackers while she's on vacation in Mexico (The Net, 1995).
"Our whole lives are on the computer!"
I rewatched The Net. (Thanks to @sfpodge!) 
Sure it's a bit cheesy (now), but I reckon it holds up alright. Especially for a PG-13 tech film from the 90s, when Moore's Law was in full swing and computer "newness" was measured in months (if not weeks).
Plus she had awesome taste in games!
@mackensen Heh. Yes. Yes it is.
I've seen #TheNet once. Which is one more time than I should have seen it...
@mackensen It's better than #TheNet ...
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I could easily have been Sandra Bullock’s character in “The Net.” That movie was SO prescient!
Ordering merch online, I’m there & have been since Amazon only sold books! An online chat rather than a phone call, sign me up. Online friends—my kind of social life.
In the ‘90s I even worked from home teaching remote classes to sick kids or ones who were suspended/expelled — initially I taught over the phone & later online.
Guess noone gonna call me a people person!
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Action movies released in 1995…pick your favorite. Poll 2 of 2.
Holy shit, this freaks me out a bit. We just up and stopped calling it #TheNet one day, didn't we? (Except for that Sandra Bullock film to remind us.)
They put The Net on Netflix!
Bout time to revisit this masterpiece of 90s Internet paranoia ... haven't seen it in maybe 25 years
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