Dueling Hackers: Difference between revisions

[[File:dueling hackers 6317.png|link=Bigger Than Cheeses|frame|That's Hollywood. Reality is [[Cut the Juice|simpler]].]]

 

 

One hacker is trying to hack into a system, while the other is busily trying to keep him out. Expect the hackers to consider each other to be a [[Worthy Opponent]]. Often mixed with an attempt to back-trace the invading Hacker's source, depicted much like phone backtracing usually is.

* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' has a few examples.

* Happens in ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion]]'' as both sides run a propaganda war against each other.

* A slowed down and scaled up version: The ''[[.hack]]'' plot-lines for the ''Twilight'' manga and anime involve a group of hackers breaking down an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] while the game's programmers try and counter the slow infection.

* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''. In episode 8 the Jihiyou family hacks into the MEMOL supercomputer to steal information (and possibly activate the mansion's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]). Grace manages to defeat them.

* Happens often enough in ''[[Dennou Coil]]'', since realspace and cyberspace are linked. A particularly heated one happens between Isako and Fumie early on.

* While it wasn't precisely done by hackers (mostly) the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' movie with Diablomon featured a fight between the titular villain and the hero 'mons... <small>IN CYBERSPACE</small>.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Oracle and [[Evil Counterpart|Calculator]] faced each other online several times in [[Birds of Prey]]. Typically, it was to get the other's location so they could send superhuman agents to arrest/kill each other.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]''. In the first movie Kaplan has a hacking duel with the Red Queen AI to bypass her defenses.

* [[The Core]] treated Rat's interaction with security systems this way, as though he were dueling with the security programmer. After breaking into DESTINI and shutting it down, "Your kung fu is not strong."

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', Beetee occasionally attempts to hack the Capitol's television network in order to display the rebel's propaganda shorts.

 

* On ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' Marshall (the resident Omnidisciplinary Nerd) was in a hacking duel at least once, as someone tried to break into SD6's system.

* ''[[Smallville]]'', as Chloe tries to keep hackers out of Watchtower.

* Kind of the point of CSI: Cyber seeing as it focuses on an elite FBI Cyberwar team.

 

* Can happen in [[Cyberpunk]] games when a hacker tries to break into a computer system guarded by defending programmers. For example, in ''[[Shadowrun]]'' adventures whenever a decker tries to penetrate a system protected by defense deckers.

 

* According to emails in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', Pritchard aka "Nucl3arsnake" got into one of these with Arie van Bruggen aka "Windmill". Pritchard managed to hold his own and would have won if Windmill hadn't discovered Sarif's hidden backdoor access.

 

* A sequence in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' featured this.

* A [[Curb Stomp Battle]] [http://xkcd.com/341/ happened in] ''[[Xkcd]]''.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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