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This can be done a variety of ways, including: password guessing, data diddling, virus implementation, IP spoofing (address forging), sniffing (password monitoring) and scanning (e.g., programs that probe for network vulnerabilities or dial telephone numbers to identify the ones connected to modems).

The film's central conceit - a Bill Gates-coded software tycoon engineers a series of high-profile superhacks to foment hysteria over the threat of information terrorists, then exploits this fear to sell his Gatekeeper security software to banks, multinational corporations, and the government, allowing him unlimited back-door access to the system - resonates with the current "convergence of the commercial and the military sectors" in the war against data diddling. In a twist on the classic bait-and-switch - a Red bait-and-switch, if you will - that metaphorical authority known somewhat quaintly as "The Man" morphs into The Back Door Man.