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Not even that most of the time. I can think of maybe 2 movies that show actual computer stuff while everytjkng else shows entirely made up bullshit from the way a terminal looks, to visualizing a mainframe as a video game that doesn't even look like a real video game (Masterminds is so goofy).
Tracker puts "whatever I want to do" in curly braces.
Well, having a well maintained and up to date system is a cornerstone of any good hacking practice!
On Windows running tree from C:\ is a good one.
Live free or die hard 👌
10 PRINT "HAKZ0RZ G0 BRRRR... "; : PRINT
INT(RND(1)*999999999);" // TERMINAL SKILL +10 FBI HACKED EPSTEIN DECRYPTED"
20 GOTO 10
just go to the C-root and type "tree"
or to / for civilized people
I watched Jurassic Park again the other day.
"It's a Unix system, I know this!"
Nedry had a very custom window manager.
Fun fact: That weird 3d navigation thing was a real program that existed. It's called fsn. Here's some information about it. https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park-arttuesday-vintagecomputing-jurassicpark-whoopsie/
That's awesome, I never knew that! And someone made a similar tool for Linux as well
*random hackages
There's a guy in one of the main irc chans I hang out in, who even after being there for a decade, still does not get it, still thinks we're "hackers" ... just because we run e.g. eix-sync -q ; emerge -DuvaNqtg world does not mean we're "hackers".
I rewatched Stranger Things season 4, which takes place in 1986, and there’s a scene where code flashes on the screen while they’re “hacking”. It shows:
- Turbo C++ - not invented until 1990
- HTML - 1993
- HTTPS - 1994 (it’s called htsps on the screen)
- PHP - 1995
- CSS - 1996
- Iframe - 1997
- C# - 2000
- .NET Framework - 2002
- CoffeeScript - 2009
- Flexbox - 2009
The Stranger Things universe has time travel confirmed.
Mr. Robot really spoiled me. How does that shit fly under the radar for such a high production show?
He didn't use arch, btw.
Been a while since I watched it. Did they actually take the time to do it right in that show?
Yeah. It was very realistic. Sometimes they simplified explanations a bit. They had real hackers as consultants, and Sam Esmail, the creator of the show, was into hacking and computers as a teen.
Cool! TIL
Literally unwatchable
Amateur... They should have just typed TREE and hit enter like the professionals
btop
All the hacking flash u need. A hacker needs to know the exact temperature of each CPU core at once at all times. In spaced out colors, for clarity.
Hey, at least they used something based in reality opposed to the traditional falling Matrix text... Actually, on second thought, that might be a little bit cooler.
At least if your goanna mombo and jumbo and make stuff up.
Do it with some flare
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I seem to remember reading that what Trinity did in the opening scenes of The Matrix before the police busted in was actually doing a real exploit. So it got done properly at least once!
Mr. Robot: Hold my editor
I once watched some police procedural show (don't remember which copaganda it was exactly) where they were trying to track someone's location online. Couldn't stop laughing when they showed an IPv4 address starting with 624.
Mind you, that's for the same reason all American phone numbers in shows have a 555 prefix – showing a real address could lead to liability if e.g. someone tries to launch an attack on that address they saw on TV.
Unlike phone numbering schemes, the IPv4 address space has no well-known area reserved for fictitious addresses. Sure, you could use something like 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, or 203.0.113.0/24 (test networks for use in documentation), but those aren't well-known outside of certain circles.
So they just go with completely invalid addresses because that's easy.
Just use 127.0.0.1 as the address and let hackers try to attack it.
This guy sure has a lot of porn.
I'm in
The call is coming from inside the house.
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echo Im in
Here's a trigger for you all: Numb3rs description of IRC
"Two ships meeting in uncharted waters". Are you fucking kidding me?
You should be given 10 lashing over a barrel with the cat o nine for linking that.
WHERES THE QUATERMASTER TELL EM TO BRING THE CAT
A loud yowling, generally irritatated cat is plonked unceremoniously on the table
what, what now
I can relate whenever there are scenes in movies where characters are supposed to make art. Either the actor movies the pen or brush in a way that betrays that they have zero understanding of what they're doing or the art itself is hilariously mediocre despite being supposedly magnificent and beautiful according to other characters in the movie.
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I left a story if almost exactly this. Had to update a six person halo shooter arcade game. It runs on Linux. Took a bunch of trouble shooting to 1 get it to update over Internet, & 2 give up and just use a flash drive. But we had opened by then and a bunch of people gathered around whispering "yo he's hacking like in the movies!". I was using a Bluetooth keyboard made to be used by two thumbs....
The Plague, the greatest corporate cyber-sec guy of all time. He even had Penn working for him.
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Yeah most hacking scenes are ridiculous. Shows like mr.robot are more realistic.
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