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[–] 111 points 2 years ago (11 children)

ngl the movie the net in the 90s was actually pretty believable when it came to hacking

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    War dialing. Social engineering. Absolutely.

    Also, hackers (except for the screen projecting on the characters faces).

    It's in that place I put that thing that time.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Even these days I'm still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.

    When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.

    EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one's using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it's a magstrip or someone punching numbers in...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    The one with Sandra Bullock? Concept-wise it was quite realistic. But the hacking itself, man that was some unbelievable stuff. I don't think they got any fact or term right. Almost as if the OG Clippy helped: "It looks like you want to make a hacker-related movie..."

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