movie review
It's Not About High Tops — It's About Top-Secret Access Codes
and How To Break Them You don't need this movie reviewer to tell you how critical a solid, multilayered and up-to-date data security plan is, and I'm betting that thanks to careful planning and implementation, your data records are safe and sound. But consider this: What if a device could break any "unbreakable" code of any personal, corporate or governmental security system anywhere on earth? And what if it fell into a hacker's hands?
Impossible, you say? Not in SNEAKERS, a complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception, and above all, the insecurity of security in a hacking-frenzied world.
A TEAM OF RASCALS The movie's title derives from the name of a team of experts
with complementary skills and assorted misdeeds in their pasts — Sidney Poitier, an ex-CIA operative; David Strathairn, a blind electronics genius; Dan Aykroyd, a conspiracy-obsessed communications wizard; and River Phoenix, the team's happy-go- lucky gofer. Smart, experienced and close-knit, these "Sneakers" make a living breaking into places to uncover the vulnerabilities of their security systems, though as one client points out, "not a very good living." The team's leader is Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) who, unbeknownst to his comrades, has a guilty secret from his own past. A botched job ruined a friendship, made him flee the country and forced him to change his identity.
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