{"id":38,"date":"2007-07-18T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-07-18T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T15:39:32","slug":"the-original-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-original-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments about &#8220;the hacker&#8221; character in modern movies and TV has lead me to a potentially uncomfortable realization. Penny Arcade posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2007\/07\/16\" title=\"Brains with Urgent Appointments\" target=\"_blank\">comic strip<\/a> Monday on the matter. A couple weeks before goldenfiddle posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenfiddle.com\/node\/7933\" title=\"Die Hard, Action Movie\" target=\"_blank\">chat transcript<\/a> on the same idea. I think they were both inspired by Die Hard 4, which I haven&#8217;t seen, but you don&#8217;t have to look far to find other examples. I&#8217;ve only seen a quarter or fewer of 24 episodes, but they must be amongst the worst. That show would collapse if it&#8217;s weren&#8217;t for the constant usage of all-powerful hackers as a plot device. So lame.<\/p>\n<p>And then I realized one of my most favorite and lovable and heroic characters of all time may be the original inspiration for all of these lame followers. I&#8217;m afraid R2D2 is the original hacker. He mostly opened doors and fixed space ships in a pretty &#8220;hands on&#8221; manner, but shutting down all the trash compactors on the detention level is on the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments about &#8220;the hacker&#8221; character in modern movies and TV has lead me to a potentially uncomfortable realization. Penny Arcade posted a comic strip Monday on the matter. A couple weeks before goldenfiddle posted a chat transcript on the same idea. I think they were both inspired by Die Hard 4, which I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-star-wars","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}