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From:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30747.html

Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Posted: 16/05/2003 at 15:12 GMT

The average American moviegoer taking in the Matrix Reloaded this weekend will
likely be wowed by the elaborate action sequences and dazzling special effects.
But hackers who’ve seen the blockbuster are crediting it with a more subtle
cinematic milestone: it’s the first major motion picture to accurately portray a
hack.

That’s right: Trinity uses a ’sploit.

A scene about two thirds of the way through the film finds Carrie-Anne Moss’s
leather-clad superhacker setting her sights on a power grid computer, for plot
reasons better left unrevealed.

But at exactly the point where audiences would normally be treated to a
brightly-colored graphical cartoon of a computer intrusion, a la the 2001
Travolta vehicle Swordfish, or cheer as the protagonist skillfully summons a Web
browser and fights valiantly through “404 Errors,” like the malnourished
cyberpunk in this year’s “The Core,” something completely different happens:
Trinity runs “Nmap.”

See http://www.insecure.org/