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		panpanna on Sept 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 25th Anniversary of the Theatrical Release of "Hac... I think sneakers was the successor to either wargames or hackers. Either way, great movie with a realistic story and minimal hacker stereotypes.

castillar76 on Sept 15, 2020 [–]

Wargames! The writers for Sneakers, Lasker and Parkes, first encountered the ideas they used in Sneakers while doing their research for Wargames, and apparently generated a good deal of the plot for it in '81.

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