Hackers/Trivia


 * Did Not Do the Research: On purpose. The hacker hired by the studio as a technical adviser wanted to see how much BS he could spin, all of which was unquestioningly accepted. That hacker was none other than Eric Corley (a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein), founder of the legendary hacker magazine "2600: The Hacker Quarterly". "It's got a 28.8 bps modem!" He meant Kbps, right? 300 bps wasn't all that great even in 1985, much less 1995.
 * Also, "Habeas Corpus" has absolutely nothing to do with dead bodies.
 * The legal concept, no. However, literally translated from Latin, according to The Other Wiki, it means, "you may have the body." So, kinda.
 * They did some research - the "P6 chip" they mentioned was the soon to be launched Pentium Pro processor, however it never made it to laptop platforms (and on closer inspection the laptop in question was a Mac), wasn't RISC, and wasn't as fast as they seemed to think it would be.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Naoko Mori (aka Toshiko Sato from Torchwood) appears in a brief cameo in the last act as a hacker.
 * In the same sequence, Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) appears as a British hacker.
 * Lara Croft and Sick Boy against Bunk Moreland
 * Penn Jillette as the bored security guard
 * Romance on the Set: Leads Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie got married after the movie's release, but divorced a few years later.
 * Shout-Out:
 * Kate's boyfriend refers to Dade and his friends as 'Leopard Boy and the Decepticons.'
 * Cereal Killer's real name is "Emmanuel Goldstein," likely a reference to 2600 founder and editor Eric Corley, who himself uses the name as a reference to the figurehead enemy of Big Brother in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
 * Plague's alias in the aircraft was "Mr. Babbage." Charles Babbage was credited as the originator of the concept for the programmable computer.
 * The elite supercomputers of the movie are called "Gibsons" which is a nod to William Gibson.
 * You talkin' to me?