deskthority

The movie alludes to Anonymous group in a bad way.

It may be well researched

Phrack article: The Fall of Hacker Groups

This article discusses why recently we do not see many hacker groups
anymore, and why the ones we do, such as Anonymous and its satellite
efforts, do not succeed in having the same cultural impact as their
forefathers.

Ah. "Hacker" is fiction and was released last year.

I first thought that this thread was going to be about "Hackers" from 1995 with Angelina Jolie. I hate that movie and Angelina Jolie for starring in it.

I just watched another movie "Takedown", it seems the weakest link in security systems is always human, hackers get the critical info through social engineering not through software hacking. So, to hack into any system, they have to be master hackers of human brain and computers at the same time.