I just watched the movie Sneakers. In the final minutes of the movie, they hand over a powerful hacking device to the government to get their payment. Then, in the last 15 seconds, they reveal that they actually kept the device, and a news anchor says the Republican Party just lost all their money and no one knows where it's gone. As soon as that sentence is done, he says "in other news, Greenpeace and the United Negro College Fund just received record profits". Then the movie ends. The movie talks about hacking the government constantly, and what they could do if they erased all currency or all records of property. But the Hollywood writers couldn't really imagine any usage of such a device beyond "fuck republicans".