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Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Criminal Minds, there's a super hacker that can basically infiltrate any system at will and do impossible things (like simultaneously scanning every street cam to find a specific license plate). Government supercomputers with elite security are no match for her.

Okay, I get it. This is a work of fiction and she's basically a mechanism to speed up the plot.

In one episode they find some kid's password protected laptop. The super hacker goes "oh no, I can't hack that. It's running Anti-Hack OS! We need the password". The password ends up being plain text password that a brute force dictionary attack could break in seconds.

I've never facepalmed so hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the Bothan pilot in Wraith Squadron books (SW again, the less consistent part of it). 12 X-Wings drop out of hyperspace approaching a planet. One of the pilots is able to spend no more than 5 minutes to find out some pretty specific shit from governmental archives of that planet, listen to encrypted communications of the Imperials, whatever.

It's worse than the Elder Wand in HP.

In one episode they find some kid’s password protected laptop. The super hacker goes “oh no, I can’t hack that. It’s running Anti-Hack OS! We need the password”. The password ends up being plain text password that a brute force dictionary attack could break in seconds.

Well, that's right. Thinking to install Anti-Hack OS is something only that kid can do. The govt is too stoopid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're ok with little planes flying through hyperspace but draw the line at space hacking, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Like I said, balance of power and internal consistency.