Random Most Ridiculous Movie Hacking Scenes (14 items)

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  (#1) Swordfish

  • Halle Berry, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones, Sam Shepard, Drea de Matteo, Tim DeKay, Tate Donovan, Natalia Sokolova, William Mapother, Zach Grenier, Camryn Grimes, Timothy Omundson, Rudolf Martin, Carmen Argenziano, Angelo Pagan, Gary Rodriguez, Ilia Volok, Margaret Travolta, Nick Loren, Kirk B. R. Woller, Scott Burkholder, Jonathan Fraser, George Marshall Ruge, Jeff Ramsey, Marina Black, Anika Poitier, Leo Lee, Denney Pierce, Dean Duval, Tait Ruppert, Dana Hee, Joey Box, Craig Braun, Kevin F. Sherry, Alex Morissen, Russ Cootey, Chic Daniel, Cory Parella, Mark Riccardi, Shawn Woods, Mark Soper, Laura Lane, Andrew Lakey, Astrid Veillon, Sam Travolta, Tim Storms, Ryan Wulff, Craig Lally, Corinne Chooey, Kerry Kletter, Mark Donnell, Debbie Evans, Sierra Farber, Travis Rosario, Ann Travolta, Jonathan Pessin, Mimi Fletcher, Debbie Entin, Rusty McClennon, Brenda Eimers, Tom Morris, George A. Chase, Jason Christopher, Richard Householder, Michael Arias

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The world's best hacker, Stanley Jobson, has one minute to infiltrate the Department of Defense's secure server while being... distracted.

  How Long Does It Take? 1 minute, 7 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Stanley is forced to hack into the Department of Defense's server with a trigger to his head and a woman unzipping his pants in a slightly nonconsensual manner. While bad guy Gabriel, played by John Travolta with blond highlights and a soul patch, and his cronies watch, Stanley sloppily and nonsensically smashes his fingers against the keyboard of the strangely shaped laptop he's been given while strings of numbers and letters scroll across the screen.

  While the data sequence may look technical, professional hackers who've analyzed the scene say it's a massive mess.
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  (#2) Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

  • Katherine Heigl, Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Bruce McGill, Peter Greene, Brenda Bakke, Eric Bogosian, Patrick Kilpatrick, Everett McGill, Andy Romano, Scott Sowers, Afifi Alaouie

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Grazer One, a destructive and top-secret military satellite.

  How Long Does It Take? About two seconds to add the gigabyte of RAM mid-hack.

  What's His Hacking Style? Former US government computer programmer Travis Dane hijacks a train headed from Denver to Los Angeles. Dane, like most '90s movie villains, had been fired by the government due to his increasing "mental instability." He uses a portable computer powered remotely by an Apple Newton to regain access to Grazer One from a moving train. In the midst of the encryption action, he adds a gigabyte of RAM, which in reality does nothing to help him break the code faster.

  Good thing Steven Seagal is also on board the train to save the world by shooting Dane's computer.
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  (#3) The Core

  • Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Aaron Eckhart, Alfre Woodard, Richard Jenkins, Shawn Green, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, nm0702809, Tchéky Karyo, Rekha Sharma, Glenn Morshower, Matt Winston, Jeffrey Gold, Hrothgar Mathews, Vanna Bonta, Fred Ewanuick, Christopher Shyer, Rick Kain, Anthony Harrison, Alec Medlock, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Alonso Oyarzun, Pamela Martin, Fred Keating, John Shaw, Ray Galletti, Chris Humphreys, Claire Riley, Alejandro Abellan, Robert Manitopyes, Laurie Murdoch, Eileen Pedde, Dion Johnstone, Michael St. John Smith, Tom Scholte, Priscilla Poland, Nicole Leroux, Bart Anderson, Jennifer Spence, Marke Driesschen, Lenie Scoffié, Justin Callan, Angelica Hayden, Robert Paul Lewis, Greg Bennett, Nickolas Baric, Ming-Tzong Hong, Ermanno De Biagi, Monique Martel, Marcello Laurentis, Roberto Roberto, Costa Spanos, Rosa Di Brigida

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The cell phone belonging to geophysicist and protagonist Josh Keyes.

  How Long Does It Take? 39 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? This is the ultimate Hollywood hardware hack. Anti-authority hackster Rat, played by DJ Qualls, impresses his captors by using a gum wrapper as a conduit to blow into Keyes's phone, somehow granting it "free long distance for life." The trick succeeds, and Rat gets to work on saving the planet, one mouse click at a time. What else would you expect from a movie about scientists who travel to the inner core of the planet to figure out why it's no longer rotating?
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  (#4) Superman III

  • Richard Pryor, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Annette O'Toole, Robert Vaughn, Pamela Stephenson, Jackie Cooper, Annie Ross, David Winning, Marc McClure, Gavin O'Herlihy

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Programmer Gus, played by comedy legend Richard Pryor, hacks his company's financial system in order to siphon off unaccounted for half-cents from paychecks.

  How Long Does It Take? 34 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Gus infiltrates the system with ease by using the command "OVERRIDE ALL SECURITY." Considering he works for a multinational corporation named Webscoe, this seems a little unrealistic. It only takes a few keystrokes for him to amass the extra funds. He then employs a bulky stylus with a long, curled cord to work some touchscreen wizardry.
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  (#5) Weird Science

  • Robert Downey Jr., Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Anthony Michael Hall, Kym Malin, Michael Berryman, John Kapelos, Wallace Langham, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Vernon Wells, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Robert Minkoff, Robert Rusler, Ivor Barry, Chino 'Fats' Williams, Phillip Borsos, Renee Props, Pamela Gordon, Suzanne Snyder, Rick Le Fevour, Britt Leach, Kevin Thompson, Joe Gieb, Prince Hughes, Jennifer Balgobin, Rock A. Walker, Fred D. Scott, Johnny Timko, Jill Whitlow, Mary Steelsmith, Darren Harris, Anne Bernadette Coyle, Mikul Robins, Todd Hoffman, D'Mitch Davis, Vince Townsend Jr., Suzy J. Kellems, Barbara Lang, John Simone, Theodocia Goodrich, Jeff Jensen, Alison Carole Lowe, Robin Frohman, Doug MacHugh, Michael Cramer

  What's Gettin' Hacked? High school nerds Gary and Wyatt siphon power from a large government computer system in order to give Wyatt's wimpy PC a boost.

  How Long Does It Take? 41 seconds.

  What's Their Hacking Style? These characters in a John Hughes rom-com have hatched a plan to design and bring to life their own dream woman. By connecting a doll to electrodes and creating a power surge, their woman, Lisa, is born. First, they contend with the administrator of the local government computer system after inserting an unmarked '80s floppy disk into Wyatt's computer and dialing into the system. Navigating an absurd series of colorful 3D portals, Wyatt gains access to the system, funneling its power into his weird science project.

  It's true that hacking into bigger computer systems to exploit their strengths is common practice, but the visual elements depicted here are unreal and silly. On top of the somewhat questionable physics of creating a live human-looking woman out of a toy doll through "computerousness."
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  (#6) The Net

  • Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Tony Perez, Ken Howard, Diane Baker, L. Scott Caldwell, Daniel Schorr, Ray McKinnon, Robert Gossett, Adam Winkler, Thomas Crawford, Christopher Darga, Charles Winkler, Wren T. Brown, Gene Kirkwood, John Livingston, Cam Brainard, Danny Breen, Dennis Richmond, Dennis Miller, Julia Vera, Lucy Butler, Margo Winkler, Vaughn Armstrong, Israel Juarbe, Wanda-Lee Evans, Nicole Vigil, Gerald Berns, Brian Frankish, Andrew Amador, Bob Dini, David Winkler, Wendy Gazelle, John Cappon, Rick Snyder, Gabrielle Wagner, Kerry Kilbride, Lewis Dix Jr., Elaine Corral Kendall, Tannis Benedict, Melvin Thompson, Julia Pearlstein, Roland Gomez, Juan García, Bradford Hill, Hope M. Parrish, Kristina Krofft, Lynn Blades, Alfredo López, Rich Bracco, Barbara Abedi, Kevin Brown, Melissa Bomes, Philip Vitola, Lili Flanders

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Computer programmer and systems analyst Angela Bennett puts her skills to use, helping a remote client with a pesky virus.

  How Long Does It Take? 54 seconds.

  What's Her Hacking Style? It's '90s all the way. Using floppy disks and multi-window executables, Angela swipes and types as she destroys a strange virus that does something no virus actually does: melts the images on the screen. More of a debugger than a hacker, Angela celebrates her victory by ordering a pizza on the internet. While the pseudo-hacking here is questionable, The Net gets some cred for predicting online customizable pizza delivery.
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  (#7) Transformers

  • Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Odette Annable, Hugo Weaving, Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel, Rachael Taylor, Bernie Mac, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Colton Haynes, Mike Fisher, Anthony Anderson, Tom Lenk, Zack Ward, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Kevin Dunn, Charlie Adler, Amaury Nolasco, Travis Van Winkle, Darius McCrary, Robert Foxworth, Chris Ellis, Julie White, Bob Stephenson, Glenn Morshower, J. P. Manoux, William Morgan Sheppard, Peter Jacobson, Rizwan Manji, Reno Wilson, Omar Benson Miller, Nicole Randall Johnson, Madison Mason, Rick Gomez, Tom Everett, Mark Ryan, Josh Feinman, Colin Fickes, Andy Milder, Aaron Michael Lacey, Michael O'Neill, Arne Starr, Steven Ford, Andrew Caldwell, Brian Stepanek, Esther Scott, John Robinson, James C. Burns, Michael Shamus Wiles, Wiley M. Pickett, Sean Smith, C. J. Thomason, Michael J. Fisher, Johnny Sanchez, Ravi Patel, Cade Courtley, James D. Weston II, Colleen Porch, Craig Barnett, James Blackburn, Carlos Moreno Jr., Michelle Pierce, Jamison Yang, Jason White, Paul Michael Bloodgood, Samantha Smith, Pete Gardner, Jamie McBride, Scott Peat, Chip Hormess, Luis Echagarruga, Matt Cannon, Sean Hampton, Tavia Schwartz, Mark Bedell, Geoffrey M. Reeves, Seth Miller, Kevin Carvell, Shawn Lecrone, Brian Prescott, Ronnie Sperling, Kyle Saylors, Mike Allen, Michael Trisler, Joel Lambert, Patrick Mulderrig, Brian Reece, Laurel Garner, Frederic Doss, Jimmie Wood, Jeremy Jojola, Matt Noble, Brian Shehan, Stuart G Murphy, Andy Domingues, Michael Adams, Mary Decaro, Jessica Kartalija, Ron Henry, Charlie Bodin, James R. Petix, Ashkan Kashanchi, Maja Kljun, Sophie Bobal, Ray Toth, Michael McNabb, Ron Mitchell, Andrew Altonji, Mason Rock Bay, Adam Ratajczak

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Frenzy the Decepticon boards Air Force One and uses its robotic transformation powers to hack into the military's encrypted, top-secret database system.

  How Long Does It Take? 1 minute, 28 seconds before the military terminates the alien's connection, but it's able to download quite a few files after it breaks in.

  What's Its Hacking Style? There's nothing realistic about tracking "hacking sounds," which a sound specialist at the Pentagon does when Frenzy gains entry. The visual display on the computer screen Frenzy is using, questionably located in the storage room of the president's personal airplane, is flashy and image-based rather than a long string of code. The red progress bar, denoting a race against the clock, adds drama to this big-budget action flick.
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  (#8) Hackers

  • Angelina Jolie, Felicity Huffman, Jonny Lee Miller, Penn Jillette, Marc Anthony, Matthew Lillard, Lorraine Bracco, Alberta Watson, Jesse Bradford, Wendell Pierce, Fisher Stevens, Renoly Santiago, David A. Stewart, Michael Gaston, Ravil Isyanov, Sam Douglas, Ricco Ross, Jeff Harding, Liam Ferguson, John H. Tobin, Olegar Fedoro, Naoko Mori, Laurence Mason, Tony Sibbald, Michael Potts, Liza Walker, John Bair, Paul Klementowicz, Ralph Winter, Eric Loren, Jennifer Badger, Kal Weber, Walter Lewis, Richard Ziman, Don Hewitt, Mick O'Rourke, Ethan Zane Browne, Kimbra Standish, Peter Y. Kim, Mike Cicchetti, William DeMeo, Max Ligosh, Johnny Myers, Christo Morse, Bob Sessions, Kevin Brewerton, Gary Howard Klar, Nancy Ticotin, Rawleigh Moreland, Raquel Mondin, Jeb Handwerger, Denise George, Darren Lee, C.J. Byrnes, Annemarie Lawless, Blake Willett, Terry Porter, Melissa Barkan, Steven Angiolini, Felix Santiago, Bill Maul, Richard Purro, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Mitchell Nguyen-McCormick, Joseph Lloyd, Thomas Hill, Roberta Gotti, Jennifer Rice, Enzo Junior, Douglas W. Iles, Kristin Moreu, Christopher Waller

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Dade "Zero Cool/Crash Override" Murphy decides to hack into his local television station's automated scheduling system as an 18th birthday present to himself. His objective: Change the regularly scheduled prejudiced talk show to an episode of The Twilight Zone.

  How Long Does It Take? 2 minutes, 12 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Dade resorts to social engineering to get what he wants, calling in to the TV station as "Eddie Vedder from Financing" to get the number off a modem. With the ever-critical modem number in his possession, he gains control of a robotic arm that physically shuffles the tapes around to his liking. While hacking TV stations was a real thing, it was more likely to be accomplished in the '90s through strong FM transmissions rather than remote computer hacking. Dade also crosses paths with a rival, Acid Burn, who also has access to the TV station's scheduling system.

  Even though run-ins with other hackers are commonplace in these scenarios, the two engage in a very unrealistic code clash with the robotic arm while exchanging cheeky instant messages transmitted in large, flashy fonts lacking dialogue boxes.
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  (#9) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

  • William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Catherine Hicks, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Grace Lee Whitney, Jane Wiedlin, Jane Wyatt, Vijay Amritraj, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, John Schuck, Michael Berryman, Brock Peters, Joe Lando, Mark Lenard, Madge Sinclair, Robert Ellenstein, Raymond Singer, Robin Curtis, Phil Rubenstein, Nick Ramus, Stephen Liska, Alex Henteloff, Kirk R. Thatcher, Judy Levitt, Viola Kates Stimpson, Everett Lee, Marty Pistone, Teresa E. Victor, Eve Smith, Jeff Lester, Tony Edwards, Michael Snyder, Bob Sarlatte, Joe Adamson, Monique DeSart, Joe Knowland, Scott DeVenney, Mike Timoney, John Miranda, Greg Karas, David Ellenstein, Thaddeus Golas, James Menges, Richard Harder, Newell Tarrant, Mike Brislane, Joseph Naradzay, Tom Mustin, Jeffrey Martin, Donald W. Zautcke

  What's Gettin' Hacked? A 1986 Apple Macintosh that is somehow able to converse with computer files from 2286 containing the chemical formula for the famous Star Trek material transparent aluminum.

  How Long Does It Take? 23 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Scotty acts like a bit of a fumbling idiot here with this quaint Apple model that's 300+ years older than his day-to-day equipment. He tries to verbally command the computer to no avail, then tries to speak into the mouse, until he's patronizingly instructed to use the keyboard. He then launches into a two-finger typing technique that rapidly accelerates and magically enters the correct commands to engage a series of screen pop-ups and data about the transparent aluminum. Cut him some slack, though. The '80s were a weird time for technology.
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  (#10) Firewall

  • Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alan Arkin, Virginia Madsen, Robert Patrick, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carly Schroeder, Robert Forster, Jimmy Bennett, Ty Olsson, David Lewis, Eric Keenleyside, Brenda Crichlow, Ona Grauer, Kett Turton, Vince Vieluf, Zahf Paroo, Ken Tremblett, Beverley Breuer, Matthew Currie Holmes, Andrew McNee, Jennifer Kitchen, Kevin Mundy, Vincent Gale, Candus Churchill, Elizabeth Thai, Levi Woods, Finn Michael, Richard Hendery, Pat Jenkinson, Lovena Fox, Joe Richards, Susan Skemp, David Wills, Gail Ann Lewis, Joani Bye, Sue Leonard, Marcus Mosely, Catherine St. Germain

  What's Gettin' Hacked? In order to store images of 10,000 bank account numbers, bank security specialist Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) uses his daughter's mp3 player as a storage device. This is a case of hardware hacking.

  How Long Does It Take? 50 seconds to rig the iPod.

  What's His Hacking Style? Firewall, a 2006 film that Ford may or may not even remember making at this point, centers around a group of high-end crooks targeting Jack for a large-scale scheme. Jack uses an iPod to transfer the bank account numbers demanded by his adversaries, explaining, incorrectly, "10,000 songs, 10,000 account numbers. It doesn't know the difference." This fast-and-loose logic does neatly sum up the half-baked tone of this scene.

  From there, Jack and the man in charge of the plan, Bill, exchange jargon about "OCR programs" and various types of data while one of Bill's henchmen makes sure the iPod is ready for the file dump.
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  (#11) Skyfall

  • Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Jarah Mariano, Ben Whishaw, Wolf Blitzer, Helen McCrory, Elize du Toit, Huw Edwards, Ola Rapace, Michael G. Wilson, Roger Yuan, Rory Kinnear, Tom Wu, Anthony O'Donnell, Dave Wong, Nicholas Woodeson, Greg Bennett, Lee Nicholas Harris, Milorad Kapor, Selva Rasalingam, Chris Cowlin, Paul Venables, Daniel Harland, Russell Balogh, Ian Bonar, Joanna Jeffrees, Santi Scinelli, Eddie Ruben, Carol Cummings, Christopher Sciueref, Duncan Meadows, Senem Temiz, Jens Hultén, Duncan Casey, Ben Loyd-Holmes, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Liang Yang, Darren Lynch, Kammy Darweish, Shaun Lucas, Michael Pink, Martin Poole, Beatrice Curnew, Khan Bonfils, Neil Alexander Smith, Kris Dillon, Joe Cameron Brown, Neve Gachev, Burt Caesar, Amber Elizabeth, Benjayx Murphy, David Frost, Crispin Letts, Mayo Oliver, Stuart Mulcaster, Chooye Bay, Craig Izzard, Hannah Stokely, David Gillies, John Hodgkinson, Mihai Arsene, Adebayo Bolaji, Simon DeSilva, Eric Michels, Enoch Frost, Luke Howard, Shane Nolan, Katherine Elizabeth McLean, Sid Man, Gregg Wilson, Jim Conway, Glenn Webster, Jake Francis, Alan Low, Joss Skottowe, Wayne Anthony Gordon, Yennis Cheung, Ross Waiton, Dominique Anne Jones, Harry Kershaw, Tank Dong, James Adkin, Elia Lo Tauro, Orion Lee, Jake Fairbrother, Amir Boutrous, Oliver Johnstone, Angela Tran, Dion Williams, Daniel Adegboyega, James Li, Nicholas Goh, Kurt Egyiawan, Gordon Milne, Kenneth Hazeldine, Bill Buckhurst, Peter Basham, Yusei

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Bond villain Silva hacks MI6's vast computer and technology systems while Q and Bond watch in horror.

  How Long Does It Take? 55 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? The scene unravels with the typical stylized Bond approach to espionage thrillers. Silva's hack is represented by visually stunning maps and graphs on large flatscreens, which isn't efficient for hacking, as they limit the amount of processable data at one time. The film does include references to polymorphic code, a real defense tool employed by hackers that changes whenever people try to gain access to it. Q also operates hex code to solve the "GRANBOROUGH" cipher, but this kind of binary coding language would not include these letters.

  Even though the grandiose hack contest between Silva and Q is pure ocular spectacle, some of its tech aspects are legit.
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  (#12) Jurassic Park

  • Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Wayne Knight, B. D. Wong, Ariana Richards, Richard Kiley, Miguel Sandoval, Bob Peck, Joseph Mazzello, Martin Ferrero, Whit Hertford, Gary Rodriguez, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Jophery C. Brown, Cameron Thor, Gerald R. Molen, Dean Cundey, Christopher John Fields, Greg Burson, Brian Smrz, Laura Burnett, Brad M. Bucklin, Tom Mishler, Adrian Escober

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Lex, with the moral support of her brother Tim, is trying to hack into Jurassic Park's security system in order to save Alan and Ellie from a team of velociraptors. 

  How Long Does It Take? 57 seconds.

  What's Her Hacking Style? The 3D visualizations on the computer Lex digs into in order to reengage the system are laughable by today's standards. The UNIX system computer, though, really existed, and there is a 3D filing system called a fsn. The fsn never really caught on, but its interface is similar to what viewers see here. While the jury is out on whether or not this scene depicts a true hack, it is probably the most realistic of Jurassic Park's computer sequences, and the one that inspired legions of young girls to become computer programmers.
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  (#13) The Matrix Reloaded

  • Monica Bellucci, Keanu Reeves, Jada Pinkett Smith, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Roy Jones Jr., Gina Torres, Harry Lennix, Cornel West, Collin Chou, Leigh Whannell, Harold Perrineau, Anthony Zerbe, Lambert Wilson, Nona Gaye, Daniel Bernhardt, Essie Davis, Anthony Brandon Wong, Robert Mammone, Gloria Foster, Tory Mussett, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Nathaniel Lees, Bernard White, Clayton Watson, Robyn Nevin, Socratis Otto, Nash Edgerton, Scott McLean, Genevieve O'Reilly, Helmut Bakaitis, Randall Duk Kim, Rupert Reid, David Franklin, David Roberts, Ian Bliss, Rene Naufahu, David No, Malcolm Kennard, Christopher Kirby, Andy Arness, Josephine Byrnes, Michael Budd, John Walton, Matt McColm, Nick Scoggin, Don Battee, Neil Rayment, Adrian Rayment, Terrell Dixon, David Kilde, Steve Morris, Tahei Simpson, Peter Lamb, Ray Anthony, Tony Lynch, Valerie Berry, Kevin Scott, Frankie Stevens, Alima Ashton-Sheibu, Nicandro Thomas, Stoney Burke, Steve Vella, Noris Campos, Joshua Mbakwe, Chris Mitchell, Attila Davidhazy, Austin Galuppo, Liliana Bogatko, Shane C. Rodrigo, Daryl Heath, Marlene Cummins, Paul Cotter, Kelly Butler, Montaño Rain, Andrew Valli

  What's Gettin' Hacked? In this sequel to The Matrix, Trinity hacks the power grid that controls the underground facility responsible for maintaining The Matrix. Neo must infiltrate the core of the facility in order to confront the Architect, creator of the artificial world.

  How Long Does It Take? 18 seconds.

  What's Her Hacking Style? Made in 2003, Trinity's scene involves use of a real hacking program, Nmap. This freeware tool basically scans computer systems for vulnerabilities before it strikes. There are no flashy graphics or silly sounds to accompany the hacking here: only straightforward code. Many real-life hackers rejoiced over the film's accuracy, even if it's a little on the fast side, although the British Computer Society warned users NOT to try this at home, because it's unlawful.
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  (#14) WarGames

  • Matthew Broderick, William H. Macy, Ally Sheedy, Michael Madsen, Dabney Coleman, Maury Chaykin, John Spencer, Barry Corbin, John Wood, James Tolkan, Art LaFleur, Jason Bernard, Michael Ensign, Eddie Deezen, Alan Blumenfeld, Dennis Lipscomb, Drew Snyder, Kent Williams, Stephen Lee, Frances E. Nealy, Michael Adams, Tom Lawrence, Stack Pierce, William Bogert, Billy Ray Sharkey, Juanin Clay, Joe Dorsey, Jesse D. Goins, Irving Metzman, John Garber, Lucinda Crosby, Charles Akins, David Clover, Paul V. Picerni Jr., Brad David, Erik Stern, James Ackerman, Frankie Hill, Gary Bisig, Edward Jahnke, Susan Davis, Glenn Standifer, Duncan Wilmore, Howie Allen, Martha Shaw, Gary Sexton, Jim Harriott

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The grading records at David Lightman's Seattle high school.

  How Long Does It Take? 53 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? This young hacker, played by a charming Matthew Broderick, tries to impress his crush by dialing into the school's computer system in order to alter their grades. While the scene is filled with '80s phone and computer sounds, it isn't over the top or unrealistic in its portrayal of a teenaged home hacker using his personal rig to mess around with vulnerable operating systems and databases.

  WarGames is hailed as one of the few films to get hacking in its early days right, and its release in 1983 caused the US government to assess its own technological weaknesses.

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