Released: 15 September 1995 [USA] - 3 May 1996 [UK]
 Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
 Tagline: "Their only crime was curiosity"

 Written by: Rafael Moreu
 Directed by: Iain Softley
 Co-Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard

 Synopsis
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

Trivia
• "Hack the Gibson" is a phrase used in the movie that refers to the hacking of a Gibson supercomputer, a fictional brand of supercomputer probably referring to science fiction author William Gibson, father of the cyberpunk genre and coiner of the term "cyberspace".
• The real name of Matthew Lillard's character, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from George Orwell's novel 1984, which Goldstein mentions at one point during the movie; the fact is also alluded to in a dream sequence when an image of Agent Richard Gill tells The Phantom Phreak (also known as Ramon Sanchez) that "I'm watching you." Emmanuel Goldstein is also the pseudonym of Eric Corley, who was a technical consultant for the film. A copy of Corley's 2600 also appears briefly hanging on a wall during the movie.
• When Eugene "The Plague" Belford, is on the plane near the end of the film, he uses the pseudonym "Mr. Babbage". This is a tribute to Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first finite state logic machine, a predecessor to the computer.
• In the climax of the movie one of the characters displays a sign saying "trust your techno lust"; this line has become the closing phrase to the hacker show Hak.5.
• The name Lord Nikon in the movie was given because of the character's photographic memory.
• The tagline "their only crime was curiosity" is taken from a line of the Hacker Manifesto ("My crime is that of curiosity"), published in Phrack magazine, issue 07, file 03 in 1986.
• The handle Crash Override is taken from Flash Override, the highest priority level in the Autovon system.

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