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The Recruit
2003 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Roger Donaldson
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
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Awesome. Have you ever seen the movie The Recruit with Colin Farrell? There is a great scene where his character remotely "hacks" a TV at a job fair.
Laughable, huh?
>Files we obtained, mainly through the US Freedom of Information Act, show that between 1911 and 2017, more than 800 feature films received support from the US Government’s Department of Defence (DoD), a significantly higher figure than previous estimates indicate. These included blockbuster franchises such as Transformers, Iron Man, and The Terminator.
On television, we found over 1,100 titles received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from Flight 93 to Ice Road Truckers to Army Wives.
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When the CIA established an entertainment liaison office in 1996, it made up for lost time, most emphatically on the Al Pacino film The Recruit and the Osama bin Laden assassination movie Zero Dark Thirty. Leaked private memos published by our colleague Tricia Jenkins in 2016, and other memos published in 2013 by the mainstream media, indicate that each of these productions was heavily influenced by government officials. Both heightened or inflated real-world threats and dampened down government malfeasance.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washington-dc-films-fbi-24-intervening-close-relationship-a7918191.html
Something very similar happens in the movie The Recruit. Must watch for hackers.
I hope the authorities don't go after him for making this public though.
I don't know what it would take for Governments around the world to acknowledge the importance of encryption and anonymity tools. Access to private data cuts both ways, if the Government can do it so can the black hats. Maybe a large scale hack of Government networks devastating the economy will bring them to their senses.
Given the allegations of Russia's involvement in the recent election, whether true or not, I was expecting Governments around the world to think deeply about cyber security issues. Looks like that won't happen anytime soon.
"Once you are inside the assumption is that you are supposed to be there"
Almost the exact same words used by Al Pacino in the movie The Recruit, where Colin Farrel plays an agent who steals information from the CIA.
There's a reference (that prompted me to read the book) in a movie by Al Pacino and Colin Farrell (The Recruit.) Not an incredibly good movie (good for a lazy Saturday afternoon.)
This totally reminds me of the movie, "The Recruit". :D LOL