{"id":44525,"date":"2021-12-21T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32932\/How-The-Matrix-Inspired-A-New-Generation-Of-Hackers.html"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T13:48:03","slug":"how-the-matrix-inspired-a-new-generation-of-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-the-matrix-inspired-a-new-generation-of-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Matrix Inspired A New Generation Of Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"36.225130890052\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout\" readability=\"7.2888888888889\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout__img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/topic\/cyber\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/topics\/57a205628cb727dec795a6b1\/callout_logo\/1614199980283-screen-shot-2021-02-24-at-34918-pm.png?resize=240:*\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard&#8217;s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>The camera pans across a dark nightclub. Rob Zombie&#8217;s industrial metal anthem Dragula blasts through the speakers. Uninhibited revelers dance and mingle. In a corner, Neo is leaning awkwardly on a wall clearly under\u2014or perhaps over\u2014dressed for the occasion. He catches someone approaching him from the corner of his eye.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"28\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My name is Trinity,&#8221; she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trinity?&#8221; Neo pauses. &#8220;The Trinity? The Trinity that cracked the I.R.S. D-Base?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"46.034266764923\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that <em>The Matrix<\/em> hints that this is, among many other things, a hacker movie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30.022522522523\"><\/p>\n<p>The movie isn&#8217;t necessarily about hackers the way <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/kzvqx9\/real-hackers-tell-us-why-they-love-the-movie-hackers\">Hackers<\/a><\/em> or <em>Sneakers<\/em> is, but it may well be the movie that most embodies the hacker ethos, and the one that has influenced hacker culture the most in the last two decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"37\"><\/p>\n<p>Just look at the movie\u2019s aesthetics. If you go to hacker conferences like Def Con or the Chaos Communication Congress, it&#8217;s hard to tell if the hackers there are cosplaying <em>The Matrix,<\/em> or if the Wachowski sisters, the minds behind the masterpiece, stole their look. A Def Con spokesperson, in fact, said that <em>The Matrix<\/em> was a staple on the conference movie channel, which is available throughout the hotel where the conference is held in Las Vegas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on what I\u2019ve been able to confirm, we showed it at least 20 times,\u201d Melanie Ensign, a longtime Def Con spokesperson, told Motherboard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"26.605080831409\"><\/p>\n<p>But the hacking references, the computers, and the cool looks are just the superficial layer of what makes <em>The Matrix<\/em> such an iconic hacker movie. After all, there are several ways to read the movie and unravel its meanings. The movie is an allegory <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/3027027.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for the Christian faith<\/a>, for <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15140812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the psychoanalytic journey<\/a>, and\u2014perhaps most importantly\u2014for the trans experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2019\/3\/30\/18286436\/the-matrix-wachowskis-trans-experience-redpill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as Emily VanDerWerff explained in an eye-opening piece from 2019<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"33.590551181102\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29\"><\/p>\n<p>The sequels veer more into religious territory, but very explicit hacking references are still there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30.22962962963\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Matrix Reloaded<\/em> is \u201cthe first major motion picture to accurately portray a hack,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/theregister.com\/2003\/05\/16\/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a 2003 article<\/a> written by renowned cybersecurity journalist and former hacker Kevin Poulsen. And it\u2019s not just that the movie portrays hacking accurately, it actually shows Trinity using a real tool hackers routinely use\u2014nmap\u2014and a real life exploit called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MovieDetails\/comments\/7s2qem\/matrix_reloaded_using_the_real_crc32_exploit_to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sshnuke<\/a>, which was made by Michal Zalewski.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"35.5\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Matrix<\/em> purposefully appealed to an already blossoming generation of hackers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"34\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHackers had been building their own spaces for decades before <em>The Matrix<\/em> came out, so the idea of being a part of something that was only there if you were a part of the \u2018in group\u2019 wasn\u2019t new to anyone active in the hacking community before 1999,\u201d Emily Crose, a security researcher and former NSA analyst, said in an online chat. \u201cHaving access to this hidden information and being a part of that underground exchange of information was a part of the hacking identity. You had access to that world if you were curious enough to discover it. Curiosity was the whole reason Neo took the red pill in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"48\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30\"><\/p>\n<p>Crose said that her generation of hackers \u201cstarted our careers as outsiders,\u201d fixated on technology and following their curiosity\u2014\u201dour white rabbit\u201d\u2014just like Neo and his shipmates on the Nebuchadnezzar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27\"><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what appealed to young hackers everywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"33\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fully identified with Neo,\u201d Patroklos Argyroudis, a researcher who specializes in researching unknown vulnerabilities and works for security firm CENSUS, told Motherboard. \u201cDo you think that&#8217;s air you&#8217;re breathing now? I&#8217;m still saying this to people I train in exploitation when they can&#8217;t reach an (obvious to me) solution for a technical hurdle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"35\"><\/p>\n<p>Argyroudis said that he was already hacking when the movie came out, around the age of 18, and his nights \u201clooked a lot like Neo&#8217;s in the beginning of the movie. Staying up until 4:00 or so, trying to understand something, to an obsessive point. Waking up late, trying to find work and not really wanting to be assimilated by 9-to-5.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first reading of the main theme of the movie was this actually. The Matrix as a metaphor for assimilation to an ordinary 9-to-5 life, become a cog in the machinery of society,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>This was spelled out even more clearly in the first sequel, <em>Reloaded<\/em>, where Morpheus tells other ships\u2019 crew members and captains that \u201cwe well know that the reason most of us are here is because of our affinity for disobedience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"38.5\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>The movie hit at the right time for those of us who were coming of age when it came out. John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab was in high school when it came out. A week before it opened in theaters his school librarian let him take old computers home \u201cto play with,\u201d he told me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"35\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Matrix had me. Somewhere deep inside it clicked. I was a highschool sophmore and in the process of figuring out who I was.\u201d he said, explaining that at the time he was aware of hacking and its culture, but he wasn\u2019t in it yet. \u201cYou could be an awkward adolescent with a lot of stuff that just felt like your body is the fucking cage that keeps you from doing what you want. And here, here was the promise of movement, of freedom, of infinite possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"58.170233000476\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"34\"><\/p>\n<p>In the case of the security researcher who goes by the name x0rz, <em>The Matrix<\/em> literally steered him into becoming a hacker. When he chose to go to a particular private school around 2004, which offered cybersecurity courses, he said \u201cit was probably because they had a very cool looking dude on their brochure, very similar to Neo.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30\"><\/p>\n<p>The movie wasn\u2019t just for millennials though. Amelie E. Koran, a hacker and technologist, said she felt identified with the now obsolete technology shown in the movie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"37\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing <em>The Matrix<\/em>, where you&#8217;re dealing with the analog phones and dial tones and stuff, like that&#8217;s old, like phreaker culture, or, you know, the old [bulletin boards] type of thing. And that I thought was, that was a cool callback,\u201d she said in a call.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27.345132743363\"><\/p>\n<p>The old-school hacker cred also came from the fact that all the people who chose to escape <em>The Matrix<\/em> had handles or nicknames just like the most well-known hackers at the time, such as the members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicaffairsbooks.com\/titles\/joseph-menn\/cult-of-the-dead-cow\/9781541762374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cult of The Dead Cow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-component=\"QuoteBlock\" class=\"abc__quote abc__quote--pullquote\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>\u201cThe Matrix had me. Somewhere deep inside it clicked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>For Koran, who is transgender but had not transitioned yet when <em>The Matrix<\/em> came out, the movie introduced the concept of \u201ca genderless figure\u201d like the character Switch. Over time she understood the queer identities in the movie as a \u201chidden subtext in the story.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>That subtext became clear to Koran when rumors of Lana Wachowski\u2019s transition started coming out, and the media covered it in a sensationalistic, insensitive, and transphobic way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"36\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know why she hid that the story is an allegory, because much like a handle or anything like that, you spend your life trying to kind of hide that, and still go on about and enjoy your life,\u201d Koran said. \u201cThe whole thing about <em>The M<\/em>atrix was you break yourself free from that [&#8230;] That was the thing that lifted the cloud off of people, when they could live their lives themselves authentically. And I think that&#8217;s another part of the movie: when you can live authentically, you have superpowers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"19.105882352941\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/cyber\/id1441708044?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CYBER<\/a>. 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