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Identity control via FBI databases

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
Robert Redford's past is revealed through a government database

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Typically, the database updating scene in Hollywood technological anxiety films involves falsifying information in order to implicate an innocent person in a crime, thereby disrupting their identity and triggering a predictable string of narrative consequences. In this minor inversion of the logic of hacking into a government criminological database, Robert Redford's record is instead corrected to include his current alias. The net result is, of course, the same. Having been framed for a murder, the government will now be able to connect his current, legal identity with his past as a naive, college age, black-hat hacker.


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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2011, December 14). Identity control via FBI databases. Retrieved May 17, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/identity-control-via-fbi-databases. This work is licensed under a No Copyright; No Rights Reserved.