The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.
The legendary ones show a “BREACH” at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural.
There’s also stuff like this that Hollywood employs:
Go watch Mr Robot, it’s great and does not do this
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!
Never forget the infamous NCIS co-op hacking on a keyboard scene.
I remember a scene of such a crime movie that was at least funny for people used to computers and progrmmers.
The (old and seasoned) detectives were brought in contact with the new “cyber unit” of the police. Stored away in an otherwise empty office floor somewhere, they were the absolute movie style hackers: cluttered desks, sloppy outfit, beards. The old detectives were quite reluctant to work with those young “computer people” and had a lot of prejudices. Then, one of the detectives found a big red button on the desk and said “I wonder what happens when I press this button” - and presses it. And the “cyber guys”: “DON’T!”. The detective mocks them, and presses the button several times before he asks what the button actually does. Cyber guy: “That is our ‘order pizza’ button! I hope you’ve got enough money to pay for this…”. Cut. Next scene: They are all eating pizza together from a desk-high stack of pizza boxes.
Back in Ye Olden Days, we probably had the first web interface to order pizza. “We” had been a long-established computer nerd meeting, and this pizza service that normally was closed on Sundays actually opened just for us on that weekend just for the occasion. We had an internal web page to order and organize orders of pizza. But of course, the order did not go out electronically - when our web app saw the need to place the order, is simply sent a fax ;-)
This actually existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQxZc9nmtE
You know, I’ve seen this dozens of times but I’m just realizing, at least assuming that’s not a power bar (which would be odd since it matches the plug of the monitor or PC), since the monitor shut of straight away, he actually only unplugged the monitor. The PC should still be on and getting hacked.
Yes, my favorite comment:
pulls out the power cord for the monitor
Job done!
followed by:
Attacker must have had 5 people on the keyboard.
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.
The show Mr. Robot did that, they used real 0-day exploits for their hacking scenes!
sudo apt-get install hackerman
