Sneakers The movie
Sneakers - The movie�The world isn�t run by weapons any more or energy or money. It�s run by little ones and zeroes � little bits of data. It�s all just electrons�
There�s a war out there old friend, a World War. And it�s not about who�s got the most bullets. It�s about who controls the information; what we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It�s all about the information.�
In the movie sneakers cosmo makes this statement signifying that who occupy�s the information has power over the world rather than who has the greatest army or armaments. The movie is the basis of this concept that with information is power. In the movie a small group of talented �hackers� are hired by who they think are the NSA to recover a small black box. When they find this box they discover that is a universal code breaker of every secret computer file in the world, everyone is after them.
During the movie everyone desires to get their hands on this box, as they know what power it holds. At one stage in the movie they use the box to enter into the airport terminal control center where they have the power to direct aircrafts wherever they want. They have the ability to access the FBI database or any other government agency�s database in the world; such access gives the owner of the box complete power. An example of how this power could be used is this, if there is a war currently in progress, the knowledge within this box could be used to access a military database of the opposing force and would show where the enemy is situated or based then an air raid could wipe them out. Obviously this is an extreme example of what such information could be used for but this is a highly probable situation. �Its all about the information�
With access to any secret file in the world you have unlimited power, access to banks where you can withdraw billions of dollars, access to nuclear weapons and missile silos around the world, the ability to reek havoc upon any country or person in the world. Information is power. The agency�s within the movie understand this, as does cosmo who makes the statement, that is why they are all out to find the box as international abomination is capable; not with millions of military ground troops, not with thousands of jet fighters, not with megatons of nuclear power, but with one simple thing, information.
To put this into a real life retrospective; not long ago for a terrorist to black out New York City he would have to make physical contact with the power plant by means of bombs, or actual hands on in...
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