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== Trivia ==

Kudos to whoever removed the unsourced and uninteresting trivia section. I do feel however it's worthwhile to include a link to [[Swordfish (password)]] somewhere on the article. I'm putting it in a "See also" section for now. Feel free to work it into the main article. -[[User:Verdatum|Verdatum]] ([[User talk:Verdatum|talk]]) 17:15, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

:It shocks me at all the people that consider triva "worthless". Trivia adds a lot to an article; it gives us a section where we can put interesting facts. THe problem ONLY arrises when trivia becomes 5 pages of people saying stuff like "1 hour and 36 minutes into the film, the price of a coffee in the coffee shop is $2.37. If you take the name swordfish, and give each letter a number value (A=1 B=2 etc.), and those up, multiply by 15, take the sqare root, divide by 300, and multiply that by the cubed root of 1700 you get EXACTLY 2.37!!!!!". As long as its actuall trivia though, and only a few interesting things, a trivia section adds a lot.[[User:DurotarLord|DurotarLord]] ([[User talk:DurotarLord|talk]]) 14:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
::I tend to agree with the stance taken at [[WP:HTRIV]]. -[[User:Verdatum|Verdatum]] ([[User talk:Verdatum|talk]]) 14:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

How to add sources to that Trivia section? I mean, for example the first fact written there about the hacker speaking German: How to give any source for that? It's just a fact that is obvious to people who know that language when watching the movie. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/87.187.227.228|87.187.227.228]] ([[User talk:87.187.227.228|talk]]) 18:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Terrorism ==
== Terrorism ==

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Terrorism

The main goal of the character Gabriel is to steal money to fight terrorism. This movie was released prior to September 11, 2001. The film release on DVD was delayed due to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Few people mention the connection between the movie's focus on terrorism and the terrorist attacks on September 11th. The goal of the character was quite timely considering that the terrorist attacks of September 11th happened soon after the movie's release. Very few citizens of the United States of America considered terrorism to be a substantial threat at that time. The character Gabriel spoke about his goal of protecting the citizens of the U.S.A. and how these same citizens were unaware of the danger that terrorism posed to their lives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duxchik (talkcontribs) 17:54, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really get how we should conect this in the article, or even say the movie predicted correctly a turn on terrorism danger. Actually, Travolta's character has plans to vanish terrorism against USA by killing people, and so scare others with the possibility of dying too. September 11th terrorists used suicide actions so I don't believe this kind of "scare tatics" would work so much on them. 187.80.116.70 (talk) 09:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

'Linux operating system'

I know it is Wikipedia policy to refer to the GNU/Linux operating system as 'Linux'. This caused its usual confusion and somebody wrote on this article that Linus Torvalds 'created' the 'Linux operating system'. I changed this to show that he wrote the kernel and I made no mention of the OS. MeatyDoughnut (talk) 14:56, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]