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"'Jason Bourne' is embarrassingly dumb about tech"

I didn't mention this in my brief reaction to the movie--probably because almost all movies are "dumb about tech"--but this article is definitely on the mark.

'Jason Bourne' is embarrassingly dumb about tech

Jason Bourne, the latest film featuring Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin, isn't just a bad movie -- it's woefully ignorant about almost every aspect of technology. And that's a big problem when tech underpins almost everything in the film, from the social media company with a billion users that the U.S. government is secretly involved with, to the hacker collective trying to access and leak sensitive data from the CIA. We're used to seeing Hollywood dumb down technology in movies, but that's…

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August 5, 2016

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