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The other big fallacy was the notion that you could magically gain access to any system as long as you could crack their encryption, along with the computer systems magically decoding to show graphics IIRC.

None of the systems required you to be running their custom client software, and all were accessible through public networks or dialup.

Didn't break the movie for me, but it's definitely something I notice.



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