Spyke

All crime TV is just godawful. Was just law and order and saw the tech person say "come on, you know there isn't a hard drive I can't lick"

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Wait a minute...using an RX modulator, I might be able to conduct the mainframe cell layer and hack the uplink to the download. It means with the right computer algorithm, I can hack you back in time, just like a time machine.

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lemmy.one

For anyone wanting the opposite, Mr. Robot had great hacking scenes

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fedia.io

Haven't seen that one, but the one I remember was from Matrix Reloaded. Trinity used Nmap to scan for vulnerabilities and then used a SSH1 CRC32 attack, which was a real world loophole in computers back then.

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

And the tech world definitely noticed. There were a lot of discussions about how cool that was on blogs and forums back then. I think even Wired Magazine wrote about it.

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fedia.io

The guy who wrote Nimap was apparently also very much stoked to see his tool being used when he watched it in cinema.

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lemmy.world

It also showed that realistic hacking could make for interesting screen drama. Hacking a offside backup company by coming in for an interview and installing a trojaned wifi router.

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

How do you install a router when you're just there for an interview?

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"I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture."

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In more than one meaning of the word "hack"; the axe scene was horrifying and so well done

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The NCIS two-hackers-one-keyboard video is the metric by which all other suck is measured.

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lemm.ee

Doesn't that use an actual, but very uncommon 3d file explorer though?

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MajorHavocreply
programming.dev

It does.

The weirdness is that the random 13 year old apparently both:

A) Has experience on a proprietary server file explorer only that was almost exclusively in use in huge data centers at the time. And... B) decides that the slow graphics heavy option is the right choice over a simple command line, while a raptor is actively breaking into the room to eat her.

Edit: and yes, I get that we're supposed to connect that her grandfather is rich and she grew up with all the best toys. Which arguably excuses A, anyway.

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Bitrotreply
lemmy.sdf.org

I don’t think any of those really apply.

She didn’t have experience with it, but she was good with computers. When she realized what she was looking at, she made the famous exclamation. Not all that different than people posting stuff to Linux in the wild threads.

Fsn is what was up on the screen, so that’s what she used. Probably easier than figuring out how to get to the command line on an unfamiliar system.

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Also I don't think a teenager being comfortable with a GUI, but not with a command line is a particularly big stretch. Kind of seems like the opposite would be more ridiculous.

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On opening night at the theater, my friend shouted, "Shut up! No you don't!" When this line was uttered. Made the scene much more memorable for me.

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RuBisCOreply
slrpnk.net

Hollywood hacker bullshit. Not once have I ever come across an animated singing virus.

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Joey hacks the gibson using some kind of intense graphical interface on Mac OS (7 maybe?) on his Apple IIGS.

Huh?!

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It was supposed to represent cyberspace like in the Gibson books. It's a thing is the times back then.

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That 3D space they so often recycle must have cost a bit to generate back then.

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Who amongst us hasn't been challenged to finish a hack while getting a blowjob?

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lemm.ee

I feel like they didn’t hack so much as insert a virus through an already connected piece of hardware.

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There's a deleted scene that explains we got computer technology from the crashed ship.

So that's why the aliens run on Mac OS 7 of course

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The show "Leverage" has some great ones. Mostly showing the hacker getting pissed that everyone else doesn't understand his part of the job.

Also the hacking in the movie "Sneakers" is surprisingly accurate for a heist comedy.

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The movie Who Am I has some great hacking scenes since most of them are like 20% actual hacking and 80% social engineering and getting physical access to places/servers.

It's made by the same people who made Dark so if you liked that show and are willing to read subtitles

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I mean, it kinda is, when you're not on clock (e.g. fun) and use vim/emacs on a multiplexer.

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In the mystery series My Life Is Murder, Madison puts a thumb drive into someone's laptop and presto she is typing, downloads and is finished in 60 seconds. No guessing a password or searching for files. Just shoves it in and takes it out. This happens in most episodes of the current season.

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The ego shit script that accompanies this I'd vote makes this better or on par with '2 hackers 1 keyboard' 'I thought you said this'd be hard' is just cringfest.

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