Live Free or Die Hard

Published: July 12, 2007, 12:56 pm

Tags: politics, summer2007, thriller, action, recommended, reviews

Can you believe it’s been 19 years since we first heard John McClane tell off some baddie with his trademark retort “Yippiekiyay, motherfucker!” right before he blows them to the next life? In 1988 no one outside of academia had heard of the Internet, and Tim Berners-Lee wouldn’t invent the World Wide Web for another half decade but in the short time since the last Die Hard flick network connectivity has become a pervasive utility underpinning our economy and government. It’s not just blogs, YouTube and Facebook after all. Live Free or Die Hard, as unlikely as this sounds, is one of the first major studio productions to recognize this sea change and take it into account in a serious way. An uber-geek brought into the federal government in the wake of 9/11 told his new bosses on his first day of work that network security was far more important than they thought as well as nowhere near sufficiently implemented to protect us. Determined black hats could

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