Hackers (movie)

Hackers is a 1995 movie about a group of New York hackers who stop a virus from capsizing corporate oil tankers. The movie stars Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller. The protagonist character, Zero Cool (Miller), is based on Robert T. Morris. A Phantom Phreak may have gotten his name from an early hacker who wrote for Phrack Magazine.

This movie quotes the Hacker Manifesto (written by The Mentor) from Phrack magazine. The person reading the manifesto was holding a 2600 magazine not a print out of phrack. Also, the name of Emmanuel Goldstein (a.k.a. Cereal Killer) is borrowed from one of the editors of the magazine. Emmanuel Goldstein (real name: Eric Corley) helped advise the movie makers when it came to the sub-hacker culture.

The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office.