Twenty years later, this gripping tale of a DC scandal still resonates
because I was the only one who had online news experience, and I had done four months at Wired. We were like this little gang of ne’er-do-wells whose offices were up the street from thebuilding, and the magazine wanted nothing to do with us. [Glass’s article] was only in the print edition. It wasn’t even available online. In 1998, Google didn’t even exist. They were founded that September. All we had was Yahoo.
Penenberg was unable to corroborate any of the details in “Hack Heaven,” which claimed that a large software company named Jukt Micronics had been blackmailed by a hacker.couldn’t find a website for Jukt or any business records in California, and important characters in the story seemed not to exist.: I don’t know how a story like that could have gotten published in the form that it was. So to me, it was a huge editorial fail. But the fact checkers were the ones who got blamed.
When the film was finished, everyone depicted in it had to go through the bizarre experience of seeing someone portray them on screen. : It is an out-of-body experience. I compared it to having somebody tickle you. It’s just a very strange, uncomfortably pleasant experience.: The Melanie Lynskey character was a composite that was partially based on me. She had no sense of humor. That was the opposite of the case. I got the job because I wrote funny stuff.: I didn’t want to composite Penenberg.
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