You know how Hollywood movies portray hacks (e.g. The Net, or every Spielberg film with a keyboard) as so illogical and easy that its a wonder that any of the characters work since transferring the treasury of a small country is so trivial? Although the hackers invariably have to wait for the progress bar to suspensefully tick across the amount a dollar at a time, by the time "Transaction Completed" blinks in 100 point font, you can be sure that the whole business is complete, and that there's absolutely no auditable trace of the hack. Insecure.org has a nice little bit on how The Matrix finally got it right with Trinity using NMAP on Linux to scan for a known SSH exploit.

I'm still waiting for a scene showing a data center getting shut down with a more realistic hack, like say, stealing all of the mouse-balls. You could make a career out of sealing up the security holes at the CTU on "24". Everyone shares passwords (which is probably something like "ctu" anyway), but it doesn't matter because a) they routinely transfer all of their files to everyone else anyway, b)they're all running their own covert ops units - at work - off of personal, untraceable cell phones, c) director is busy shooting heroin - at work, and d) the blonde chick couldn't make it to the snack machine without getting kidnapped, which provides enough of a diversion for anyone to do whatever they want. Recently, she even got kidnapped at work. They put her in one of the seamingly hundreds of vacant offices that would otherwise provide privacy for somebody running the aforementioned covert ops units off of their cellphone. Tight ship.