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Hackers are mythical creatures that just get in everywhere. Hacking is alas used as ersatz magic in many games and Hollywood movies. DJ Daemon tires of this and tries to find some games and movies that does this in a reasonly correct way. He uses a very generous definition of “correct”. But the suspence of disbelief is a strong force of nature. So let’s just accept this as a proper hacker story.Playlist:00:00 Amiga Flashback 21 – Show intro00:54 Reptile – Peaceful journey04:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – About todays show05:46 KB and Reflex – Beyond The Gates09:43 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Hacker (C64, 1986)11:38 Amiga – Charism of dark15:12 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Uplink (PC, 2001)17:17 Linus Hagne – Uplink21:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – Xerxes – the Windows ME of AIs23:46 Drax – Zarathustra27:10 Amiga Flashback 21 – Paradroid (C64) and Paradroid 1990 (Amiga)29:15 Lizardking – Hackerrence mania33:41 DJ Daemon talks about Hollywood movies showing hacking in a realistic way34:25 Keo – Hacking on heavens door37:22 DJ Daemon wonders about the last song37:43 Baal of manitou – Songs of a dragon43:52 DJ Daemons talks about the movie WarGames45:00 The Soul Stealer – Hacker’s Dream49:30 DJ Daemon doesn’t like Matrix Revolutions, but respects its use of NMap.50:08 Xemogasa / ske – Sapphire eyes53:36 DJ Daemon grapples with penny shaving (who’s Penny anyway?) and salami slicing. Sounds awful but it’s actually about money fraud. It feels better now.54:14 Nighthawk / pfs – Do the monkey!57:27 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and signs off57:50 Singer/altair grns mnt – Seen an angel Production notes: I put some effort into writing the dialogue for this episode as I felt the prewritten episodes were more enjoyable as I could control how long I spoke and avoid "word searching" and mistakes. It was also one of the first episodes to feature speech from the games themselves.Colophone:"Look at you, hacker" is the first line from Shodan's infamous speech "Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?". That speech is even in the intro of the show. When I review the hacking tropes I use names of real hackers and hacker groups. Like "I give it 9 out of 10 Fancy bears". Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2021, Retro gaming