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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All crime TV is just godawful. Was just law and order and saw the tech person say "come on, you know there isn't a hard drive I can't lick"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I'm now imagining David Caruso sitting there at his desk licking hard drives. Thanks a lot.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hacking back in time in Kung Fury is easily the best, most accurate depiction of hacking in any media ever.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

For anyone wanting the opposite, Mr. Robot had great hacking scenes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It also showed that realistic hacking could make for interesting screen drama. Hacking a offside backup company by coming in for an interview and installing a trojaned wifi router.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

"I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

In more than one meaning of the word "hack"; the axe scene was horrifying and so well done

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

The NCIS two-hackers-one-keyboard video is the metric by which all other suck is measured.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"It's a Unix system. I know this." was pretty good/bad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't that use an actual, but very uncommon 3d file explorer though?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It does.

The weirdness is that the random 13 year old apparently both:

A) Has experience on a proprietary server file explorer only that was almost exclusively in use in huge data centers at the time. And... B) decides that the slow graphics heavy option is the right choice over a simple command line, while a raptor is actively breaking into the room to eat her.

Edit: and yes, I get that we're supposed to connect that her grandfather is rich and she grew up with all the best toys. Which arguably excuses A, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think any of those really apply.

She didn’t have experience with it, but she was good with computers. When she realized what she was looking at, she made the famous exclamation. Not all that different than people posting stuff to Linux in the wild threads.

Fsn is what was up on the screen, so that’s what she used. Probably easier than figuring out how to get to the command line on an unfamiliar system.

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[–] Varyk 24 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Oh, anything in hackers from '95

In hackers, hacking means to literally jump into a 3D world where you like battle and dodge the programs and connections between web pages which are corporeal.

Hackers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESEcsjDcmM

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Mess with the best, die like the rest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hollywood hacker bullshit. Not once have I ever come across an animated singing virus.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ytmnd is the closest I ever got

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[–] Varyk 7 points 6 months ago

Are you sure you're hacking hard enough?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Shit, fuck me. Thanks for that correction!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Who amongst us hasn't been challenged to finish a hack while getting a blowjob?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] fsxylo 6 points 6 months ago

Lifting the scanner to type always gets me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like they didn’t hack so much as insert a virus through an already connected piece of hardware.

[–] JulesTheModest 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With a compatible floppy disk too if I recall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There's a deleted scene that explains we got computer technology from the crashed ship.

So that's why the aliens run on Mac OS 7 of course

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The real challenge is finding a decent hacking scene.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The show "Leverage" has some great ones. Mostly showing the hacker getting pissed that everyone else doesn't understand his part of the job.

Also the hacking in the movie "Sneakers" is surprisingly accurate for a heist comedy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Has somebody just watched Linus Tech Tips 😁? They've recently done two videos where they pull apart scenes likes this.

Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in Movies

Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in TV Crime Shows ep2

Has anyone watched Hackers? πŸ˜†

[–] zaph 15 points 6 months ago

Hackers is a timeless classic that got hacking 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not the worst, but funny:
Haker (2002): emacs through sendmail [english subtitles].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

In the mystery series My Life Is Murder, Madison puts a thumb drive into someone's laptop and presto she is typing, downloads and is finished in 60 seconds. No guessing a password or searching for files. Just shoves it in and takes it out. This happens in most episodes of the current season.

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