The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.
Trinity used NMAP and scanned for real known SSH vulnerabilities when hacking the power station in Matrix Reloaded.
The legendary ones show a “BREACH” at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.
Extra point if they have the PowerPoint shuttle controls visible in the bottom-left corner.
A serif font on a computer display?! Appalling! Sacrilegious!
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural.
Like being able to tell l from I.
And then there’s Mr. Robot in its own tier, using actual real-world tools and frameworks, with realistic flags and everything!
There’s also stuff like this that Hollywood employs:
Go watch Mr Robot, it’s great and does not do this
Been meaning to!
I am not a programmer by any means but I know enough to know they did their research.
Except Tyrell called it “nome” instead of “g’nome” and I’m pretty sure TOR exit nodes can only see unencrypted data and the entry node can only see who sent it.
…is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’? Never realised that was a possibility as a non-native English speaker. Always based it off the garden variety Gnome with a silent G.
This is like sequel or ess-que-ell all over!
is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’?
If we’re being pedantic, yes 🙂
I’ve been using Gnome for 24 years and have only ever pronounced it like the thing you’d put on your lawn if you’re an old person in Florida. But I guess that’s what happens when you only ever read about a subject and never talk about it in person.
That’s imgur for me. I’ve always pronounced it imm-gurr instead of imager.
My son and I got into a big argument about how that’s pronounced. He said imm-gurr and I said imager. Since he’s younger I assumed he was right, but it sounded so stupid I refused to yield. 😂
I’m Gur.
Grrrrrrr
There are so many computer terms like that! Gnu, which is the closest parallel to Gnome. SUSE Linux. Gif. Lib.
Me, I apparently learned most of them incorrectly. But those (mis)pronunciations are ingrained and comfy now.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1fzk-4TJk&t=125s
I never actually had to pronounce it, but in my mind MySQL was “my squeal” for years and years. The first time I talked to another PHP programmer about it I said “my squeal”, and he did a double take, then said “hold on, what did you just say?”. Then we had a pretty good laugh about it after he corrected me.
all the hacking scene are amazing, I really hated all the angela screen time lol, I just wanted elliot
Also showcased how a darknet store looks like (or I guess used to)
If it’s even that. Most of the time it’s non-nonsensical gibberish.
I was watching a show recently where someone was writing code, and it was actually C++ code. I actually did the exact pose in the meme.
Of course, he was writing it inhumanly fast, and he always seemed to be writing the start of a new file. But I liked that it was actually code and not just The Matrix-style jibberish
When I made a short film about an AI I was writing C# into visual studio as my coding. It was actual video game code that was for something like AI pathfinding or something, so I tried to make it somewhat accurate.
Not sure why movies can’t spend a grand on a programing consultant to actually write them some hacking-ish code for the scenes.
My guess is that they just don’t care to spend the time on it when the majority of people wouldn’t even notice. But of course those of us that would notice would really appreciate it.
As a guitar player, it equally irritates me when the person “playing” the guitar has clearly never touched a guitar in their life. Similarly, when an actor is actually playing it, I really appreciate it.
Off topic, but I once walked in while my wife was watching some anime where the guitars were all extremely accurate, like down to what tuning pegs they would have had for the era the guitars were from. They must have motion captured all of the guitar playing from when they recorded the music, or at least took video of their hands, because they animated it perfectly. Down to the tapping parts and everything. It was jaw dropping. I made her start the whole show over from episode one so I could watch it.
What’s the name of the show, though?
The music anime was called Given. I highly recommend the first season, but they followed it up with a movie that I didn’t like at all.
The show Mr. Robot did that, they used real 0-day exploits for their hacking scenes!
They were actually hacking rival TV show producers in real-time. (This is a lie)
I thought I heard somewhere that these screenwriters as like an inside joke try to top each other on how ridiculously incorrect they can make their hacking scenes.
Sounds like hackertyper.net
That’s likely exactly what it was.
sudo apt-get install hackerman
You actually don’t need the -get anymore
It’s recommended for script usage
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Don’t test me, I’ll do it.
What if --test-dir=/tmp --dry-run jumping off a bridge was recommended for script usage?
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Are you daft?
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Don’t forget the ridiculous amount of beeping and other sounds when characters fly over the screen at twice the speed of light!
He is building Firefox from source, don’t worry
sees them using Assembly
okay this probably doesn’t make sense but I’m too lazy to prove it
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sees them typing into notepad
“Wait this might actually be legit…”
As an actress, that’s nonsense, if hacking scenes in movies are fake, then how do you explain this documentary I watched where this hacker man hacked a kung fu fighting cop back in time to kill Hitler (and David Hasselhoff was there for some reason, too)?
The Nintendo Power Glove is a critical accessory for hacking too much time.
Thank you for reminding me that this piece of cultural heritage exists, I need to watch it again
Remember that 2 was in post when the production company decided they would just stop funding it
Honestly, I don’t think it ever needed a sequel, it’s perfect on its own
I was really looking forward to it :(
Do we have a “itsaunixsystem” community here?
Yes, but it looks like it’s been inactive for a while:
Wait, you guys don’t update your system and install random packages before going on a hacking spree?
What have I been doing all this time?
Probably masturbating
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I owe my abuse of
xargsto Mr. Robot! I saw it on the show, and now I use it everywhereActually had legit shit. Like a breath of fresh air.
The only hacking that ever felt plausible to me was in Mr. Robot.
I still need to watch that.
It is a literal masterpiece, and not because of the hacking. I highly recommend watching it again after you finish for a totally new experience.
Dark mode.
It’s almost always just htop and/or hackertyper and/or the fancy matrix effect
Or answer D: all of the above, in the form of hollywood
I thought the bash history in tron: legacy was kind of clever. There was stuff like
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Why? Do people behave in an unrealistic manner? Like taking precautions, social distancing, wear masks, believing that its real?
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