Just saw this one
Two people one keyboard also comes to mind
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Yeah, definitely NCIS
For those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
All crime TV is just godawful. Was just law and order and saw the tech person say “come on, you know there isn’t a hard drive I can’t lick”
I’m now imagining David Caruso sitting there at his desk licking hard drives. Thanks a lot.
Hacking back in time in Kung Fury is easily the best, most accurate depiction of hacking in any media ever.
That’s clearly parodying it though.
You’ve obviously never hacked while wearing a powerglove
Wait a minute…using an RX modulator, I might be able to conduct the mainframe cell layer and hack the uplink to the download. It means with the right computer algorithm, I can hack you back in time, just like a time machine.
Oh shit! I hacked too much time!
How have I not seen this movie? That looks amazing
For anyone wanting the opposite, Mr. Robot had great hacking scenes
Haven’t seen that one, but the one I remember was from Matrix Reloaded. Trinity used Nmap to scan for vulnerabilities and then used a SSH1 CRC32 attack, which was a real world loophole in computers back then.
And the tech world definitely noticed. There were a lot of discussions about how cool that was on blogs and forums back then. I think even Wired Magazine wrote about it.
The guy who wrote Nimap was apparently also very much stoked to see his tool being used when he watched it in cinema.
That would be an amazing experience. Such high praise.
It also showed that realistic hacking could make for interesting screen drama. Hacking a offside backup company by coming in for an interview and installing a trojaned wifi router.
How do you install a router when you’re just there for an interview?
Watch the show. >!But it was installed in a bathroom.!<
Oh the wonders of Internet of Things devices.
“I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture.”
In more than one meaning of the word “hack”; the axe scene was horrifying and so well done
Or Uplink game.
The NCIS two-hackers-one-keyboard video is the metric by which all other suck is measured.
“It’s a Unix system. I know this.” was pretty good/bad.
Doesn’t that use an actual, but very uncommon 3d file explorer though?
It does.
The weirdness is that the random 13 year old apparently both:
A) Has experience on a proprietary server file explorer only that was almost exclusively in use in huge data centers at the time. And… B) decides that the slow graphics heavy option is the right choice over a simple command line, while a raptor is actively breaking into the room to eat her.
Edit: and yes, I get that we’re supposed to connect that her grandfather is rich and she grew up with all the best toys. Which arguably excuses A, anyway.
I don’t think any of those really apply.
She didn’t have experience with it, but she was good with computers. When she realized what she was looking at, she made the famous exclamation. Not all that different than people posting stuff to Linux in the wild threads.
Fsn is what was up on the screen, so that’s what she used. Probably easier than figuring out how to get to the command line on an unfamiliar system.
Also I don’t think a teenager being comfortable with a GUI, but not with a command line is a particularly big stretch. Kind of seems like the opposite would be more ridiculous.
On opening night at the theater, my friend shouted, “Shut up! No you don’t!” When this line was uttered. Made the scene much more memorable for me.
BOOT UP THE DOOR LOCKS
Oh, anything in hackers from '95
In hackers, hacking means to literally jump into a 3D world where you like battle and dodge the programs and connections between web pages which are corporeal.
Hackers!
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
But it’s still awesome
Yeah it’s pretty satisfying stuff.
Hollywood hacker bullshit. Not once have I ever come across an animated singing virus.
Ytmnd is the closest I ever got
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
That these were a thing is… wild.
Edit: maybe more fitting
Are you sure you’re hacking hard enough?
HACK THE WORLD!!!
Planet*
Shit, fuck me. Thanks for that correction!
It was supposed to represent cyberspace like in the Gibson books. It’s a thing is the times back then.
That 3D space they so often recycle must have cost a bit to generate back then.
Joey hacks the gibson using some kind of intense graphical interface on Mac OS (7 maybe?) on his Apple IIGS.
Huh?!
Looking at you Swordfish.
Who amongst us hasn’t been challenged to finish a hack while getting a blowjob?
This one
Lifting the scanner to type always gets me.
Independence Day.
I feel like they didn’t hack so much as insert a virus through an already connected piece of hardware.
With a compatible floppy disk too if I recall.
There’s a deleted scene that explains we got computer technology from the crashed ship.
So that’s why the aliens run on Mac OS 7 of course
The real challenge is finding a decent hacking scene.
The show “Leverage” has some great ones. Mostly showing the hacker getting pissed that everyone else doesn’t understand his part of the job.
Also the hacking in the movie “Sneakers” is surprisingly accurate for a heist comedy.
The movie Who Am I has some great hacking scenes since most of them are like 20% actual hacking and 80% social engineering and getting physical access to places/servers.
It’s made by the same people who made Dark so if you liked that show and are willing to read subtitles
Has somebody just watched Linus Tech Tips 😁? They’ve recently done two videos where they pull apart scenes likes this.
Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in Movies
Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in TV Crime Shows ep2
Has anyone watched Hackers? 😆
Hackers is a timeless classic that got hacking 100% correct.
There’s always the classic “What people think programming is, vs how it actually is.”
I mean, it kinda is, when you’re not on clock (e.g. fun) and use vim/emacs on a multiplexer.
Password Swordfish.
dat bj tho
In the mystery series My Life Is Murder, Madison puts a thumb drive into someone’s laptop and presto she is typing, downloads and is finished in 60 seconds. No guessing a password or searching for files. Just shoves it in and takes it out. This happens in most episodes of the current season.
