• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    God. Does anyone remember the 1995 film The Net?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/

    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:

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    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.