Sneakers (1992)
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The caper film about a team of physical and technical penetration testers hired to steal a black box that breaks all cryptography - written with real cryptographers consulting, and beloved by the field for getting the work right.
It is the most technically respectable hacker movie ever made: the tradecraft is social engineering, dumpster diving, lock bypass and tailgating rather than neon typing, and the crew is a plausible red team decades before the term went mainstream. The anagram Setec Astronomy - too many secrets - and the closing 'It's all about the information' still get quoted in talks, and the film is routinely the answer when practitioners are asked which movie their job actually resembles.
Also known as: sneakers, setec astronomy, no more secrets