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Article #956Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
From: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:50
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:50
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[Spoilers ...] I think the biggest flaw in "Sneakers" is that it treats information (the decryption program) as a physical object (by actually putting it in a physical object). In a more realistic movie, everyone would be searching hard disks for copies of the program rather than the Bay Area for a box. The movie would have ended when someone posted the "Too Many Secrets" program to sci.crypt. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,rec.arts.movies Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography Message-ID: <1992Sep15.095017.27880@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk> <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Sep4.205842.12303@qualcomm.com> <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Sep14.150328.11198@b11.b11.ingr.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:50:17 GMT Lines: 14