Trivia
When entering negotiations for a hacking job on the Uplink Internal Services system, if you look at the negotiations text box near the top of the screen when it is starting up, it will say that the interface you are using has been developed by 'Frontier Communications'.
This is a joke referencing Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters. The design and text for this particular interface in Uplink mirrors/copies the content found in the BBS-accessible missions from the two Frontier games.
It additionally references the name of the company that developed these entries into the Elite series; Frontier Developments.
Another interesting in-joke concerning the movie "Sneakers" - when you use a voice-print analysis to break into a system, the text reads "Hello. My Name Is _______ My Voice is my passport. Verify Me."
These are the same words used to break into Playtronics, near the end of the movie.
Just a few in-jokes for the game. One of the servers you can hack into is the "OCP" Server - OCP is the police force from the Robocop Movies. And another is the "Protovision" server - and if you've even seen the movie "WarGames", then you'll recognize the name of the games company that David thinks he's hacking into.
And at one point during the game you get access to a server that has the password "mysocratesnote". This is in reference to the movie "Sneakers" (another great hacking movie). "mysocratesnote" is one of the anagrams for "setec astronomy" in other words "too many secrets".
