The comedy blog Slackstory published "An Ode to Movie Mainframes" this
week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with "hacking the
mainframe." Movies most often use the phrase to mean that "the hacker
can now do anything he or she wants with a given computer system." But
in the real world, what exactly is a mainframe and what would hacking
into it even entail?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/hacking-the-mainframe_n_2958380.html
...and read comments, of course.
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