Is This the Face of a Typical Hacker?

Hackers don’t typically look like Thor? Whodathunk?

In honor of the new hacker movie Blackhat (Fair warning: its Rotten Tomatoes score was 31%) and President Obama’s focus on cybersecurity issues at the State of the Union address earlier this week, the marketing team at cyber-security news site Secure Thoughts created a composite of what a typical hacker actually does look like.

Using images from 50 infamous hackers (including the still-unextradicted Scot Gary McKinnon and computer scientist Robert Tappen Morris), the site created the following creepy gif:

Some selected images are below if you want to take a closer look at some of the more infamous hackers in recent history.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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