Disappointed that nobody has mentioned Blackhat yet. Although it was a terrible movie overall, the computer hacking parts were astoundingly accurate.
When the character needs to elude a police escort that can track his ankle bracelet with their smartphone, he tricks them into letting him have the phone for a sec and surreptitiously drops the update frequency in the tracking app to 24 hours.
When he needs to hack into the NSA, he uses insider knowledge of an employee's name/email and their boss's name/email to write a plausible spearphishing email with a 0-day PDF attachment.
I think there is also some good command-line activity on screen, though it's been long enough that I don't remember.
Luckily they listened to Kevin Poulsen that was technical adviser :) It's very unfortunate that the movie was otherwise so poor. Michael Mann is one of my long time favorites. A hacking movie with the mood and grittyness he's famous for could and should have been awesome.
Not sure exactly where they were wrong, I think I found bot the plot uninsteresting as well as the characters. Also Hollywood tendency of casting jocks and models as hackers :/
Yeah, I also struggled to figure out how it went wrong. Mann of course is a strong director, and the actors are (otherwise) quite good as well. Try Hemsworth in Rush, or Wei Tang in Lust, Caution if you want to see either of them really shine.
Though as you mentioned they weren't quite cast to type. And in Wei's case acting in a second language probably doesn't help. Still the whole thing really underperformed.
When the character needs to elude a police escort that can track his ankle bracelet with their smartphone, he tricks them into letting him have the phone for a sec and surreptitiously drops the update frequency in the tracking app to 24 hours.
When he needs to hack into the NSA, he uses insider knowledge of an employee's name/email and their boss's name/email to write a plausible spearphishing email with a 0-day PDF attachment.
I think there is also some good command-line activity on screen, though it's been long enough that I don't remember.