ngl the movie the net in the 90s was actually pretty believable when it came to hacking
When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.
Even these days I’m still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.
I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.
When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.
EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one’s using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it’s a magstrip or someone punching numbers in…
War dialing. Social engineering. Absolutely.
Also, hackers (except for the screen projecting on the characters faces).
It’s in that place I put that thing that time.
And honorable mention to the non-existing Matrix sequel that had an actual SSH vulnerability on screen.
