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[–] quicken@aussie.zone 114 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 2 years ago

Trinity used NMAP and scanned for real known SSH vulnerabilities when hacking the power station in Matrix Reloaded.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The legendary ones show a "BREACH" at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 38 points 2 years ago

Extra point if they have the PowerPoint shuttle controls visible in the bottom-left corner.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A serif font on a computer display?! Appalling! Sacrilegious!

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural.

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[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago
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[–] flauschke@kbin.flauschke.de 85 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Go watch Mr Robot, it's great and does not do this

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 16 points 2 years ago

Been meaning to!

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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.

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[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If it's even that. Most of the time it's non-nonsensical gibberish.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like hackertyper.net

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 13 points 2 years ago

That's likely exactly what it was.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] ribboo@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The show Mr. Robot did that, they used real 0-day exploits for their hacking scenes!

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[–] SGG@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sudo apt-get install hackerman

[–] Y2K38@lemmy.one 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You actually don't need the -get anymore

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's recommended for script usage

[–] Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget the ridiculous amount of beeping and other sounds when characters fly over the screen at twice the speed of light!

[–] cake 47 points 2 years ago

He is building Firefox from source, don't worry

[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

sees them using Assembly

okay this probably doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to prove it

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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)?

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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we have a "itsaunixsystem" community here?

[–] Inductor@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

Yes, but it looks like it's been inactive for a while:

!itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only hacking that ever felt plausible to me was in Mr. Robot.

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[–] spark947@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's almost always just htop and/or hackertyper and/or the fancy matrix effect

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago

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".

[–] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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".

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[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

ngl the net had some great hacking scenes tho

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

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