I was watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Lisbeth Salander was really good at hacking computers as well as other security breaking skills, to the point where it was way too easy to do from a real life standpoint. This isn’t the first movie that’s treated hackers this way, showing them breaking stuff too easily, or going about it in a fantastic way. 

Why do movies make hackers out to be geniuses, or show spectacular ways to hack computers?