1995 - The Net - Trailer

Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vacation. Her life then turns into a nightmare, her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.

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  Education

[StAnger220]

1995: "This can never happen. I never put my personal information on the internet"

2012: "Oh just look me up on facebook!"

[M. Ralph Schmidt]

This movie is famous for epitomizing Hollywood's extremely loose grasp of computer technology. In the first few minutes, someone hacks into an small airplane. It's worse than Independence Day, in which aliens are running Windows 95.

[AstrologyManCave]

So Microsoft did a product plug in Independence day ? lol XD

[permanent0midnight]

hard to imagine her 486 computer with 56k modem could do any damage

[13Supersniper]

1990s movies was soo much better than nowdays . Like if you agree :)

[RichardFDisk]

further to that;

anyone in IT networking who's worth their salt knows that private address ranges are not routable or reachable on the public internet

[Jake Jarmon]

Boom! **slaps dick out of face**

[RichardFDisk]

for that, I refer you to the IETF RFC1918 document

private address ranges didn't exist until 1996

see quote below:

Address Allocation for Private Internets February 1996

3. Private Address Space

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)

172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)

192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

[Jake Jarmon]

No they actually are as stupid as you might think. Why not use a private ip address, at least get the format right. Also she mispronounces modem throughout the entire movie.

HUGE FAIL!

[RichardFDisk]

That's funny because the rogue security program in the film is "Gatekeeper"

so is the security program for OSX "Gatekeeper"

[RichardFDisk]

they're not as stupid as you might think,

just like the fake 555- phone numbers,

they did that fake IP on purpose so they wouldn't be displaying an actual IPv4 address that could be reached and possibly attacked

[Ben Aviary]

Mozart's ghost