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For reasons unknown, some guy wrote an academic paper that examined the way hackers are portrayed in the movies. The guy looked at fifty movies from the last fifty years and the results were published in the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions.
Gordon, a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, studied 50 movies, produced over five decades. The results amazed him. In the movies, most hackers aren't teenaged whiz-kids. They're professionals, over 30 years old, who work in IT. "Generally they're presented as good guys, not bad guys," he said.