
Dade struggles to make friends, but ends up falling in with a new hacking crowd, including Phantom Phreak (Renoly Santiago), Cereal Killer ( Matthew Lillard), Lord Nikon (Laurence Mason). In deference to his age, he is sentenced to seven years of probation, in which he is forbidden from owning or operating a computer or touch-tone telephone.įast forward seven years: Dade's mother, now divorced and with full custody of Dade ( Jonny Lee Miller), moves them both to New York for a fresh start. In a prologue flashback, Dade Murphy, age 11, going by the hacker alias Zer0 Cool, is found guilty of crashing 1,507 computers, and single-handedly causing a drop in the New York Stock Exchange.

A 1995 techno-thriller directed by Iain Softley, about a small group of underground computer hackers who discover a scheme being run by the security chief of a large corporation.
