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A friend of mine that was in Desert Storm taught me this. Of course, he was on the other side

One of my favourites. Great cast.

Kingsley and Redford on the roof: "There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information"

ascagnel_|5 months ago

They're not on the roof for that scene; they're in his office, using the computer room's air conditioning as a sound mask (and using a Cray Y-MP as a bench). While the movie takes some very early-90s liberties with technology (especially the scene where they use the chip), it's remarkably respectful of hacking -- there's a stronger emphasis on social engineering then the purely technical, and my "head canon" is that the chip itself is a quantum chip capable of breaking any then-known encryption.

JKCalhoun|5 months ago

He more or less was everywhere when I was growing up in the 1970's. "The Sting", "All the President's Men", etc. "The Great Waldo Pepper" was often on T.V.

"Jeremiah Johnson" though is still a favorite of mine. Got me into blackpowder.

And surprised later when watching The Twilight Zone and he turned up as "Death": https://youtu.be/9tfyv4BZRug

JdeBP|5 months ago

And, of course, "Three Days of the Condor", ending in the middle of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen".

nobody9999|5 months ago

Don't forget Three Days of the Condor[0] in which he's supported by a fabulous cast as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor

scjon|5 months ago

Jeremiah Johnson is one of my favorites of all time. Such a great movie. "You'll do well, pilgrim"

mrexroad|5 months ago

“Spy Game” is one of be one of the best spy films I’ve seen in terms of recruiting and handling assets.

mstade|5 months ago

Great scene, thank you for sharing!

wslh|5 months ago

I think it is one of the more realistic hacker movies. You can read also about Leonard Adleman's participation in the movie[1]. Adleman is the A in RSA.

Also, Lawrence (Larry) Lasker[2] was the writer of Sneakers AND War Games!

[1] https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lasker

greesil|5 months ago

Oh my. Those two movies always had a similar vibe to me and now I know why.

IndySun|5 months ago

Haven't rewatched since it was first released. As an audio person I was particularly impressed with a scene whereby someone who was locked in a trunk determined their location by remembering the sound made by bumps on a specific road. Is that right? Or am I thinking of the last time I was kidnapped?

uptown|5 months ago

You've got it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM

booleandilemma|5 months ago

The sounds that cars make over the different bridges iirc. Cool scene!

xarope|5 months ago

I think you are right. What did it sound like? The road? When you were in the trunk, the last time you were kidnapped, what did the road sound like?

/j

asveikau|5 months ago

This tends to be a favorite scene of Bay area nerds. There's not too many other Hollywood mentions of the San Mateo Bridge.

keitmo|5 months ago

"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."

nailer|5 months ago

It’s also one of the few hacking movies that stands up - assume ‘the box’ is a prototype quantum computer. Better yet assume it has a production process with such a high failure rate they’ve been churning these out for years just to produce a single working instance.

vinkelhake|5 months ago

I first watched it back when it came out. At the time I was living in a different country and San Francisco was just another US city to me. I just happened to re-watch it yesterday (it still holds up) for the first time since moving to the bay area.

It was interesting hearing the names of the locations and bridges that previously meant nothing to me (except the golden gate).

It's free to watch on youtube at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9XYQBBIJ4

gdubs|5 months ago

Not to mention one of the most ridiculously stacked casts — it's incredible how many greats are in it. And it's one of my favorite hacking movies of all time.

hbarka|5 months ago

There are moments when I’m driving over the San Mateo Bridge and I instantly think about this movie.

greesil|5 months ago

Any time I'm visiting and am on the Embarcadero. It's funny watching it, you can still see workers in the background cleaning up the median which used to have a freeway over it from the '89 quake.

hedgehog|5 months ago

Going to a cocktail party?

ppcdeveloper|5 months ago

Sneakers is one of the main factors that got me into computing from Mathematics. Cryptography was new to the main stream when this movie came out. RSA was big time. Spy Games, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and especially Jeremiah Johnson all bad ass.

wpm|5 months ago

No more secrets, Marty.

morgango|5 months ago

Seatec Astronomy

otikik|5 months ago

Where we are going we don't need roads.

castillar76|5 months ago

Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves, the methods for conducting their various heists, even the inclusion of the post-Soviet Russians as a player are all still valid today.

pramsky|5 months ago

Someone released this a few years back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776 https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets

duxup|5 months ago

It's such a "old fashioned" kind of film, the key scenes are so memorable.

booleandilemma|5 months ago

I saw it as a kid and it was one of the movies that inspired me to get into software.

I hope there are still movies being made today that inspire the next generation of programmers. It feels like it's all Marvel now.

indigodaddy|5 months ago

Just FYI for anyone that wants to watch Sneakers, it's free right now on YouTube. And no ads if you have YT Premium/Music.

sgt|5 months ago

My first thought when I saw his name. I love many of his movies but Sneakers has to be my favorite!

geerlingguy|5 months ago

"My voice is my passport. Verify me"

alex1138|5 months ago

HimynameisWernerBrandeismyv-click

"Please speak more slowly"

greesil|5 months ago

"Alexa, buy me three tons of toilet paper"

braum|5 months ago

just a few days ago I had an idea for a shirt and sent it to a designer on fiverr. I was very pleased with what I got back. "Secrets are Power" was my nod to one of my favorite movies Sneakers! Rest in Piece Mr. Redford.

http://bit.ly/3Ip3tr3 link to the shirt if you want to look at it. there is a message encoding in the background.

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