Mitnick movie comes to the US

[Carrie]

Source:The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/09/mitnick_movie_us/)

Nearly six years after it was filmed, Hollywood's trouble-plagued movie version of the hunt for hacker Kevin Mitnick is headed for video stores in the US

Originally titled Takedown, then Cybertraque, the film is set for a September 28th U.S. release on DVD with the new title, Track Down.

The movie is from Miramax's horror and sci-fi label Dimension Films, and is based on the book Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By The Man Who Did It, authored by computer scientist Tsutomu Shimomura and New York Times reporter John Markoff.

Shimomura electronically tracked Mitnick to his Raleigh, North Carolina hideout in February, 1995, and sold the book and movie rights for an undisclosed sum amidst the storm of publicity following the fugitive hacker's arrest.

Full Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/09/mitnick_movie_us/)

[lordpake]

OMG! This movie is so lame. So *~ LAME!!!
I did see it on tv here once, and that was once too many...

Please shoot me, if I ever have to watch it again.

I'd recommend you find a copy of Freedom Downtime and watch it instead. Produced by ppl of 2600, it's more entertaining than this piece of *~

..And I'm not lying here. Watching this is definitely bad for your mental health :squint:

[Nick Madcat]

Meh here goes the exploitation of the ideals and ideas of hackers. And of course the SHEET done to them with the media.

*spits in disgust*

[Carrie]

LOL wow, you feel that strongly about it LOD?

Thanks for the warning. I think that I will pass on this movie. LOL:urock: