Track Down
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| Directed by | Joe Chappelle |
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Tsutomu Shimomura (book) John Markoff (book) David Newman Leslie Newman John Danza Howard A. Rodman |
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Skeet Ulrich Russell Wong Angela Featherstone Donal Logue Christopher McDonald Master P Amanda Peet with Jeremy Sisto Tom Berenger Patrick Holland James Pocock |
| Music by |
Chris Holmes James Kole |
| Cinematography | Dermott Downs |
| Edited by | Joe Rabig |
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| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Track Down (also known as Takedown outside the United States), is a 2000 film about computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, based on the book Takedown by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura. The film was directed by Joe Chappelle and stars Skeet Ulrich and Russell Wong.
For years Kevin Mitnick had eluded federal agents while using the latest electronic gadgetry to break into countless computers and gain access to sensitive and valuable information. But when he breaches the system of leading computer crimes expert Tsutomu Shimomura, it sets off an epic chase through cyberspace between a pair of hard-driven geniuses operating on different sides of the law.
The film was released to theaters in France as Cybertraque in 2000, then on DVD in Europe as Takedown later, such as in Germany in May 2003. It was released on DVD in the U.S. as Track Down in late 2004.
In Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception, Mitnick states that both book and movie are "extremely inaccurate" and based on media hype. In the film, Mitnick and Shimomura meet twice, one of these meetings prompts Kevin to flee to Seattle. This meeting did not actually take place.
The film depicts Mitnick hacking into Shimomura's computers and stealing/deleting his files and software. Though Mitnick admits hacking Shimomura's computers using IP spoofing, he claims he never caused any damage to anyone by deleting files or data, merely copying source code of some software, out of curiosity.
The 2001 documentary "Freedom Downtime" tries to get behind some of the false rumors about Kevin Mitnick that ended up being presented as facts in the movie Track Down.
In 1997, California author Jonathan Littman wrote The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick, in which he presented Mitnick's side of the story. Littman alleged that portions of the film were taken from his book without permission.
As a result, Littman sued The Walt Disney Company and Miramax.
Another copyright issue. The circuit displayed was copied without authority from this website. http://www.techlib.com/electronics/audiooscillators.htm The creator of the stolen circuit appears amused.
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