1y ago

Accompanied by bad acting and writing

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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.
- 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:
  https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tutorial-no-root-fake-a-hollywood-hacker-screen-in-termux.4027429/

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!
- Been meaning to!
- 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.
  
  Sounds like hackertyper.net

sudo apt-get install hackerman
- You actually don't need the -get anymore
  
  It's recommended for script usage

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.
  
  I was looking for a new project. pizza button would be neat.
- 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.
- Whenever I point out that something doesn't work like that in a TV show or movie, my wife says that that's the way it works in the universe of the show. Okay, maybe, but how am I supposed to enjoy nitpicking, then??
- What is that a video game?
- Inside that part of an inside joke between writers? Read that somewhere.
  
  Yes NCIS writers vs CSI writers to see who could get the stupidest tech bullshit on screen
- I love how the smug manager thinks he's thwarted the attack on the server since he unplugged the monitor to the terminal where people were defending against the attack.

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.
- Best rp on all of lemmy, beats out those shitters over in the Marxist area any day
  
  It's almost as if an award winning professional actor would be really good at playing roles or something.
- 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

sees them using Assembly
okay this probably doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to prove it
- sees them typing into notepad
  "Wait this might actually be legit..."
- I'd love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.
  He'd memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn't trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol

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

I thought the bash history in tron: legacy was kind of clever. There was stuff like vi last_will_and_testament.txt before the computer ducking command. I remember being surprised some prop designer knew enough about computers to set up that easter egg. Although I think I was reading that they contracted out the design of the OS to some team or something.

Try being a medical biologist watching outbreak/pandemic films. It's fucking painful to watch.
- Why? Do people behave in an unrealistic manner? Like taking precautions, social distancing, wear masks, believing that its real?
  
  I was more thinking about when researchers go looking for "the original strain" and stuff like that.

This always makes me laugh (IRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ
- Ha I'm partial to Kelly Rowlands excel messaging https://youtu.be/Rg4UqdtDMXI?feature=shared

Funnily enough I have to hide terminal windows when updating while I'm around any of my less tech savy friends who think it's scary or creepy. I really dislike them portraying this as "hacking".

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?

I recently started rewatching Gundam Wing, and one of the computer screens with fast scrolling text was just scrolling through the Readme of either old Adobe Software or old Printer software (I don't remember which).
- I'm not sure about Gundam but I was watching through Dragonball z and sometime during the Android saga, Bulmas computer starts running a program and it looked pretty accurate but I'm not really able to program.

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.

Do we have a "itsaunixsystem" community here?
- Yes, but it looks like it's been inactive for a while:
  !itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club

Dark mode.

I think that most of the time even if they know what it would look like in the real world, movie creators intentionally make it look silly - I guess mostly for the entertainment value, or as kind of a joke in the lines of "let's see how absurd we can make it before your grandma notices something's not right".
- I think also showing real attempts at cybercrime would have a real liability aspect
  
  I doubt it, unless they show something very in depth about a fresh vulnerability on a real system - and even then there are usually months between shooting a TV show/movie and it hitting the screen.

- The files are in the computer

ngl the net had some great hacking scenes tho

The hacking scene in the Command and Conquer game is unrivalled. Actually piloting worms through cyberspace, with the very real risk of death to the hacker, this is the future I knew and loved as a child

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

Running "top" is also some common thing.
So, when I got a bunch of free serial WYSE terminals ages ago, I propped them up on the shelf, daisy-chained them, wrote a wrapper to be able to address all four screens through one UART, and had them display (and regularly update) system stats. Just because.

Ncis episode Tim traced ThE mOsT dAnGeRoUs HaCkEr iN tHe WoRlD to an internal 192.168.something. I do not remember how it was resolved because I was laughing too hard.
(the whole two person keyboard thi g early in the series was an intentional gag, so it doesn't count)

Most of the time it's just meaningless gibberish in my experience.
- I liked how Star Trek: Discovery had a snippet of C code with a reference to Windows NT. I wonder if we'll still be on x86 in the 23rd century.
  
  "The warp core is down!"
  "Have you tried turning the power couplings off and on again?"
- With showoff 3d graphics
- Hollywood hacking or updating packages?