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* ''[[Smallville]]'', as Chloe tries to keep hackers out of Watchtower.
* Hardison on ''[[Leverage]]'' got into one of these in "The Two Live Crew Job". Bonus points for the fact that the antagonist is played by [[Wil Wheaton]].
{{quote| '''Hardison''': Chaos. I heard you were in jail. Guess I was wrong.<br />
'''Chaos''': Alec Hardison. [[Lame Comeback|I heard you sucked]]. Guess I was right. }}
* On ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', this was the set-up for a sort of online [[Meet Cute]] between Penelope Garcia and her soon-to-be-boyfriend, Kevin Lynch, with Garcia as the hacker.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* ''[[wikipedia:The Cuckoochr(27)s Egg chr(28)bookchr(29book)|The Cuckoo's Egg]]'' is a first-hand account of real-life Dot Combat from 1986. Clifford Stoll was asked by his supervisor to find the cause of a $0.75 billing anomaly in the accounts; over ten months, he followed the trail from that, to a hacker who was breaching American military networks looking for information on the Nuclear and SDI programs and selling what he stole to the KGB.
** This story is notable for being the first properly documented case of computer hacking due to the fact that Cliff Stoll was an astronomer properly trained in documentation and with the sense of curiosity of a scientist as opposed to a computer person whose response was merely to lock out the user and forget about it(as was generally the case).
* Hackers from Taiwan and China have had actual hacking feuds going on. After all, why not try to hack your countries most likely enemy and get sympathy from your neighbors, rather then making them mad.