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Oh please. Hollywood doesn't have any contempt for computer scientists or their profession. It's you who has contempt for Hollywood, which seems to stem from a misguided belief that the Hollywood action flicks are meant to be realistic. They're not. They're meant to entertain the audience. No one wants to watch some hacker hack into a database because the realistic representation of that would be boring and -- more importantly -- it isn't actually important how any of that happens. They're just events used to drive the plot forward. Obviously this isn't true for all movies, but thinking Hollywood gets the details wrong because they hate you reeks of self-importance.


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