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…
And honorable mention to the non-existing Matrix sequel that had an actual SSH vulnerability on screen.
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.
