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Questions, please help

posted 8 years ago by cashmccall
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1. Do "young" hackers get long prison terms in real life? I've never heard of a single case where a young hacker did long, hard time. Is this a movie trope only?

2. Are people ever really let out of prison to do a job? I've never heard of this either.

3. Why would a criminal "test" his plan on a nuclear power plant? Why not just flood the tin fields? Wouldn't the test draw attention to his plan, wouldn't it make it pretty easy for someone to find out what he was planning?

4. What kind of machine gun fires hundred and hundreds of rounds and never needs reloading? Does such a gun really exist?

5. In the final scene, why did the henchmen shoot to kill, but when the ultimate baddy had him dead to rights, he just holds the gun on him and talks, and waits and waits?

6. How much money did this film lose with a 70 million dollar budget?

[–] tcw214 8 years ago

1. Do "young" hackers get long prison terms in real life? I've never heard of a single case where a young hacker did long, hard time. Is this a movie trope only?

the guy that hacked the computer of Steubenville High School rape crew is facing 16 years in prison !!!
the rapist got less than 2 years!!

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

1. Are you suggesting you have to be an "older" hacker to be convicted? Wake up. This is white collar crime (not carding) the commodities market manipulation. Trust me; U know people in prison in Louisiana doing 50, 60 and 70 year terms for much lesser crimes. Of course, that is Louisiana, Texas Alabama, etc. They lock you up for zippo and throw away the keys. Its medieval bible belt swine in charge there. I know first hand.