Chatter: Hacker Movies with Scott Shapiro

By The Lawfare Institute

The Lawfare Podcast

29/06/23·1h 11m

This week, Shane sits down with law professor and hacker historian Scott Shapiro to rant, and rave, about hacker movies. From War Games to the Die Hard franchise to TV’s “Mr. Robot,” Hollywood has portrayed hackers as heroes and villains. Sometimes filmmakers get the art and culture of hacking right. Sometimes they get basic technology very wrong. But the results are almost always entertaining.

Scott is a professor at Yale Law School and the author of the new book Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.

Here’s a list of movies Shane and Scott discussed:

War Games

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

Sneakers

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Live Free or Die Hard, aka Die Hard 4

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Snowden

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774114/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Mr. Robot

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_mr%2520robot

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