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it takes 3 seconds to output h e l l o w o r l d
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That was cool!
What was cooler was the hydra cubes when building the worm and deploying it. Or the instant map that shows the money jumping with curved lines that plot the path.
I just remember the bash commands flickering across the screen during the first interview hack.
I think the only real thing was that tape drive at the university.
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I think only use for "tapes" are (1) Backup and (2) Sentimental reasons?!
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I feel disgusted when they show a powerpoint slide with a large progress bar and text when the hacker transfers all the 100 millions dollars to his account.
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Myth
Login prompts give you unlimited attempts.
Passwords can be hacked in minutes without hashtables or dictionary attacks.
Truth
The password is far too often the user's child's name, childhood pet, "password", or "secret".
You can actually launch nukes with the password 00000000[^] (sort of).
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Hacker dudes can impress the chicks by hacking the (bowling alley|cathedral bells|lights|power system|sprinklers|sun).
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No.
I observed some whose saying aloud every line of code they write. Heck! Even the ';'! I think that's some kind of a ridiculous behavior.
Or maybe, I'm not just that geeky like those people I observed.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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e.g. to hack into the Pentagon user types:
sudo rm -R /
RUNAS /USER:Administrator DEL /S /Q /*.*
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They are not as big in real life.
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Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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I like how when they're working on a complex situation, (for instance: identifying & locating a culprit via video cams throughout the world and facial recognition databases that are located on any agency in the world; determining where the nuclear device will be targeted), they can solve it all with just five seconds of finger rattling on the keyboard.
Imagine what your customers are thing when you tell them it's going to take you a half-hour to fix a flaw in a crm program?
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I agree...it does real damage to us when we can't live up to those ridiculous expectations that Hollywood creates.
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In the movie Electric Dreams, the clueless user when presented with the connection message "How much memory?" (Old systems wanted you to allocate RAM) He types in "All of it" and his 1200 baud modem becomes an infinite baud modem and overheats.
I'll gloss over the part where he cools it with champagne and the information overload (on an Apple II-like clone) makes it sentient, because it is a fun movie (although it is more music video).
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Don't see it much anymore, but remember when software could sharpen pictures from security cameras so that blurry licence plates could be read with such unbeleivable clarity.
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Worst hacker line ever, I think, from Jurassic Park. She sees a 3d graphic of a file system. "This is Unix, I know this!" To be fair though, Newman's rant about why he was worth more money was pretty technically good. There were actually Connection Machines in the background.
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I was once asked to review a TI-99/4 computer for a store I had been reviewing HP calculators.
The manager said I did everything but drag up a chair to stand on to get some elevation to p!ss on it.
I programmed my HP-67 and the TI-99/4 to do some SIN functions and the calculator was faster.
But the slow display and beeping screen was a total joke. I could see the beeping, I'm sure marketing thought it was a requirement. However the story I heard (unconfirmed rumor) was that an executive objected to text display speed as too fast to read, and insisted it be slowed down.
When we heard TI was entering the personal computer arena with a 16 bit processor while the rest of the world was using 8 bits, we thought it was going to quickly dominate the market. Too bad they didn't let the engineers do their job.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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the programmer can be typing away at around 150 wpm and there are no windows on his computer that are accepting text input but a bunch that are scrolling data and none of them appear to be doing anything specific to his needs.
If you know what I mean...and I think you do...
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modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Think 'Swordfish'. Second vote is for the password cracking.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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To be fair, watching a realistic portrayal of coding would be pretty boring, the show would be over before the hero managed to trace down the damn null reference exception buried in a third-party assembly.
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