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I hope this ransomware called itself the Da Vinci virus? Because this sounds a whole lot like the plot of Hackers [1].

The greatest movie of all time, btw.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)



Wellll sort of. The "Da Vinci" virus claimed it was going to capsize oil tankers in order to cause an ecological disaster. Not just shut down a pipeline.


Give ‘em a cookie! Hack the planet!


I know you play the game!


More movie recommendations please


If you like Hackers, the obvious other two are Sneakers, which is good, and The Net, which is not.


This one is probably not well known in the anglophone world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

Based on a true story, though it's debated endlessly. Clifford Stoll's Cuckoo's egg deals with the same material.


Not GP, but:

- The Godfather

- Chariots of Fire

- Dr. Strangelove

- Das Boot (original German version)

- About Time

- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

- Tron




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