When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.
Spoilers for a 30 year old movie:
spoiler
Basically there’s a shadowy corpo-government organization that maintains power through altering digital records.
Some examples include convincing a conservative Senator to kill himself by altering digital records to convince him he’s HIV-positive. Later they target the protagonist by deleting her records from official government databases and attaching her photo and other info to an alias, an imaginary person wanted for a litany of serious felonies.
It seemed outlandish at the time, but that’s really where we are headed.
God. Does anyone remember the 1995 film The Net?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/
Spoilers for a 30 year old movie:
spoiler
Basically there’s a shadowy corpo-government organization that maintains power through altering digital records.
Some examples include convincing a conservative Senator to kill himself by altering digital records to convince him he’s HIV-positive. Later they target the protagonist by deleting her records from official government databases and attaching her photo and other info to an alias, an imaginary person wanted for a litany of serious felonies.
It seemed outlandish at the time, but that’s really where we are headed.