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MyWorld
26-11-2011, 04:34 PM
No, this is not about 4chan, I'm busy watching Resident Evil again and Alice makes this statement:
"I broke into an Umbrella laboratory and hacked into their computers"
It got me thinking, how many movies the last couple of years use this exact phrase, which makes one wonder, what is the use of security then if every meat head and his mother can hack into a PC in under 5 minutes?
It is extraordinary that Hollywood believe every hero to be a uber geek, irks me to no end.
Garyvdh
26-11-2011, 04:39 PM
Hollywood's basic assumption is that most corporations are pretty lax on their network security, haven't installed the latest security updates and that anybody with a little bit of googling can identify those security holes or make use of social hacking.
On that score, they are not far wrong! :D
Valis
26-11-2011, 05:25 PM
Check out this movie called War Games (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/). This is one of the very earliest computer hacking stories. Lol, I was such an uber-geek back then :)
Fader4
26-11-2011, 05:29 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
MyWorld
26-11-2011, 05:37 PM
Check out this movie called War Games (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/). This is one of the very earliest computer hacking stories. Lol, I was such an uber-geek back then :)
Case in point, there is a back-door with the password of the guys deceased son, I mean really? And the kid just happened to guess it right.
Picard
26-11-2011, 05:38 PM
How often do you see a MS Windows interface when the people in those movies are hacking. Almost never in my experience. Moral of the story ... if you use Windows, you're safe.
Valis
26-11-2011, 06:05 PM
Case in point, there is a back-door with the password of the guys deceased son, I mean really? And the kid just happened to guess it right.
Lol, only in the movies! :D
Mind you, computer security was a bit of a joke back then, 4-digit passwords were the norm, hehe.
BigBullBully
26-11-2011, 06:54 PM
Hacking in is still plausible, what grates me is when the actor furiously types away while a graphic loads or the cursor is flashing away at the top of the page not moving. Swordfish :sick:
How often do you see a MS Windows interface when the people in those movies are hacking. Almost never in my experience. Moral of the story ... if you use Windows, you're safe.
And there was no tongue-in-cheek there :eek:
GreGorGy
26-11-2011, 07:53 PM
Hacking in is still plausible, what grates me is when the actor furiously types away while a graphic loads or the cursor is flashing away at the top of the page not moving. Swordfish :sick:
Damn you! I wanted to say Swordfish. Best. Hacking. Ever. Except movies with lines of green text. We all know that to really be hacking, there must be lines of green text.
Zyraz
26-11-2011, 08:03 PM
... there must be lines of green text.
That comes from the fact that most early Unix boxes had green as the default text color in the console. <I think>:erm:
Also because of the days prior to color monitors , green ones were abundant.
GreGorGy
26-11-2011, 08:10 PM
Damn you! I wanted to say Swordfish. [-]Best. Hacking. Ever.[/-]
I cannot believe I forgot the best hacking ever. Uploading a virus from your crappy Mac Powerbook (5300 iirc, one of the worst ever produced) into an alien mothership. Independence Duh!
GreGorGy
26-11-2011, 08:13 PM
That comes from the fact that most early Unix boxes had green as the default text color in the console. <I think>:erm:
Also because of the days prior to color monitors , green ones were abundant.
Mmmm - we had amber ones here. I think I will now reduce my mac to green only, so that my clients think I am clever.
Actually, to be entirely honest, my terminal is green on black by preference, not design. I feel embarrassed and will change it to blue on pink in shame.