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[โ€“] kromem 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The reference was actually a reference to the earlier movie Sneakers which was one of the first movies about hacking.

And yeah, Uplink was awesome.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Random story, in one mission while I was searching a database for a client, I fat fingered the name and it gave me back a different person's record

IT WAS MY FULL REAL LIFE NAME

Spooked the shit out of me.