Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:23 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Tim May wrote: ... (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing? It was what it was about. A movie about math and crypto would be watched by only a small audience. The Enigma was also about things other than crypto. --Tim May Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat. --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
I recommend Catch Me If You Can, the new Spielberg-DiCapprio-Hanks movie about Frank W. Abignale, Jr., a true story of how Abignale ran away from home around 1964, forged checks, posed as an airline copilot, then as a doctor, then as a lawyer, while honing his craft in forging and identity faking. I never saw Takedown, the seldom-scene movie about Mitnick, Gilmore, etc., but I doubt it was as good in the social engineering side of hacking as Catch Me is. Some excellent sets, costumes, and period stuff from the 1960s. Abignale consults now for check makers, credit card companies, the FBI and other government agencies, and seems to be the leading authority in forgery. An interview he did a year or two ago with an Australian radio station--findable on the Web, as I found it--is great. He describes modern technology and how it actually makes what he did as a teenager a lot easier today (in some ways, less so in others). HBO has a Making Of short piece, with behind the scenes camera shots, interviews with the parties involved, including Abignale, and lots of additional information. I TIVOed it. (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Tim May wrote: ... (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing? -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Zen is the madman yelling 'If you wanta tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars!' - Jack Kerouac [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:23 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Tim May wrote: ... (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing? It was what it was about. A movie about math and crypto would be watched by only a small audience. The Enigma was also about things other than crypto. --Tim May Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat. --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
I recommend Catch Me If You Can, the new Spielberg-DiCapprio-Hanks movie about Frank W. Abignale, Jr., a true story of how Abignale ran away from home around 1964, forged checks, posed as an airline copilot, then as a doctor, then as a lawyer, while honing his craft in forging and identity faking. I never saw Takedown, the seldom-scene movie about Mitnick, Gilmore, etc., but I doubt it was as good in the social engineering side of hacking as Catch Me is. Some excellent sets, costumes, and period stuff from the 1960s. Abignale consults now for check makers, credit card companies, the FBI and other government agencies, and seems to be the leading authority in forgery. An interview he did a year or two ago with an Australian radio station--findable on the Web, as I found it--is great. He describes modern technology and how it actually makes what he did as a teenager a lot easier today (in some ways, less so in others). HBO has a Making Of short piece, with behind the scenes camera shots, interviews with the parties involved, including Abignale, and lots of additional information. I TIVOed it. (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Tim May wrote: ... (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing? -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Zen is the madman yelling 'If you wanta tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars!' - Jack Kerouac [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
