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:
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!
echo Im in
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.
Mr. Robot: Hold my editor
Normies: "shut up, he is doing magic stuff"
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....
"I'm in."
Yeah most hacking scenes are ridiculous. Shows like mr.robot are more realistic.
Here's a trigger for you all: Numb3rs description of IRC
"Two ships meeting in uncharted waters". Are you fucking kidding me?
Well, having a well maintained and up to date system is a cornerstone of any good hacking practice!
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.
On Windows running tree from C:\ is a good one.
I remember watching Mr. Robot and then learning they actually brought in a good consultant. Probably the first time I felt things seemed legit'ish.
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).
I vaguely remember a movie or show that was compiling something with cmake which has some pretty clean output.
*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".
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