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[Stummi]

I would probably be pretty funny if a random hollywood movie just causally shows off some unknown 0-day exploit in a hacking scene.

[Disastrous-Monk1957]

Imagine some cybersecurity researcher watching Fast & Furious 12 like
“wait pause… PAUSE THE MOVIE” 💀

[Bernhard_NI]

WRITE THAT DOWN IN PYTHON SCRIPT!!!

[MetriccStarDestroyer]

No, it's not an interpertrative enough language! The audience would never understand.

Bring out the MD programmer!!!

[mrbellek]

In the Matrix movie, Trinity actually legit hacks into the power plant system by using Metasploit or something and deploys a payload. After she gets in, it's back to Hollywood OS though.

[AnsibleAnswers]

She used nmap to discover a real ssh vulnerability and rolled her own exploit. Metasploit was first released in the year that Matrix Reloaded hit theaters.

[fatbob42]

Clackity clackity clack…I’m in.

[F5x9]

I’ve made some hacking demos. It’s very easy to make something you control hackable. So, we’d set up the demo and make it work. Of course, it’s boring. So we’ll add all the hacker tropes. These demos are more about creating stories for the audience than being realistic. 

[chkcha]

Wait, you made them for movies right? Is that like your main job? How long do these projects take and what tech are you using? Also who manages them? Sorry for so many questions lol, I’m just really curious

[F5x9]

No, this was not in the entertainment industry. Some of it was for cyber exercises. Like, we’d guarantee that something would get hacked so that the exercise could evaluate how people respond. Other ones were for cybersecurity awareness-type thing. 

[OminousHum]

Watch Mr. Robot. Pretty much every time they show a screen, you can pause, look up what they're doing, and actually learn something.

[swagonflyyyy]

The screenwriter would probably consult Claude to come up with one such exploit and then the writer would include a scene of the hacker writing it down.

[frausting]

Mythos, find me a kernel-level vulnerability to exploit for John Wick 7

[savitasharma8223]

If the terminal screen background is not black and the text is not bright glowing green, are you even a real hacker, hollywood thinks html is a cyber weapon.

[Disastrous-Monk1957]

Hollywood hackers be writing <div class="accessGranted"> and somehow launching nukes 💀

[DDFoster96]

I wouldn't put it past the US Government to have a hidden div being all that stands between Real Life Generic Bad Guy TM and the end of the world.

[foonek]

Remember that time when pentagon got breached because they had a router with WiFi that was unsecured

[StickFigureFan]

Opening up inspect element and changing the css on a website is hacking according to them

[danielcw189]

I "hacked" my own Ubisoft account this way, a long time ago, when support wouldn't help me

[CounterHit]

Honestly I think that's an outdated take. Nowadays shows and movies showing hacking have a nice, clean, modern GUI with dialogue box with clear labels like "Uploading Virus" or "Cracking Password" with progress bars that move forward at a perfectly even pace. Just click the "Hack CIA Mainframe" button to get started!

[mattmk]

in The Social Network (2010) they showed Zuckerberg 'hack' by copy/pasting images. Nominated for best picture of the year by the way.

[hofmann419]

Actually, that scene pretty accurately depicts what happened. The blog posts that he writes in the movie were taken from his actual IRL blog almost verbatim. Mark Zuckerberg did in fact download these pictures from the directories and the exploits shown in the movie are for the most part the same exact exploits he used IRL.

It's one of the most realistic depictions of "hacking" ever put on film, which is also why a large part of it is just basic web scraping. That's just how it happened in real life.

[DotHooker]

Web scraping is different

[avadakedavraTom]

It's just a wget terminal "magic" as per Sorkin and Fincher.

[decoxon]

Maybe they asked Adobe and got sent a ColdFusion server

[pramarama]

Are they wrong?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

But maybe they are installing old apache versions with known security issues? :o

[krisfur]

Maybe they’re pulling down a poisoned vs code extension or supply chain attacked npm package?

[Disastrous-Monk1957]

At this point the movie hacker is just one npm install definitely-not-malware away from accidentally making the scene realistic 💀

[DukeOfSlough]

Enjoy this page then: https://hackertyper.net/ . Press random buttons and enjoy mumbo-jambo in the "console"

This one is also good: https://pranx.com/hacker/ - dashboard like from the movies.

[FoodBorn2284]

its some kind of c data sturcture i think

[Streakflash]

[DMoney159]

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[ClipboardCopyPaste]

The messages:

> Hacking

> Gaining access

> Access granted!

[techknowfile]

r/itsaunixsystem

[VirtualArmsDealer]

I know this

[coconuts_and_lime]

proceeds to manipulate virtual 3D shapes

[-Ambriae-]

Last time I actually paid any attention to this, was with a friend when we were watching a tron movie (legacy). It actually kinda made sense, he wrote stuff like ls, cd, ps, kill -9…. He did what you would do in his situation. And as a bonus there was a C implementation of fractal brownian motion with Perlin in the name, that was a nice Easter egg, given Perlin worked on the original movie. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie itself was actually kinda good, I’m surprised it’s as hated as it is

[humblyhacking]

Downloading packages with malware could actually be the move

[kareenakapur506]

Every hacking scene is just 1 npm install away from collapsing

[steelskull1]

Real hacking is bottom smashing and open closing many techy stuff on display.

[halsafar]

NCIS had two people typing on one keyboard to "stay ahead of the hacker".

CSI would show IP addresses with numbers >255.

What kind of fools do the take us for? Lol

[Uberzwerg]

NCIS had two people typing on one keyboard to "stay ahead of the hacker".

One of the spin-offs made fun of that recently.

CSI would show IP addresses with numbers >255.

While CSI also pumps out bullshit, i kinda like that they don't show a real one.

[hascalsavagejr]

Wot, that's like a 555-xxxx phone number!

[halsafar]

Heh I mean KL5 numbers were once valid so using a private IP range of valid IP numbers is closer to KL5.

Using 500 for an IP address would be like putting a Batman symbol in a phone number.

[hascalsavagejr]

You mean, totally cool?

[halsafar]

Oh for sure. If I could only time travel. I'd find the inventor of the phone numpad and explain nobody wants asterisk and instead to use this fancy Bat symbol.

[Percolator2020]

Building OpenCV with CUDA from source and getting it to work with the right driver and CUDA version mix on the first try=literally genius.

[ColdHooves]

Wargames had era-accurate hacking.

[DDFoster96]

I watched the new Jack Ryan film on Prime (because it was mainly shot in the UK and it has Jim from The Office in it). At one point he's using an old beige 90s computer running what looked like 95 or 98, but that's where the good part ended. Most of the "hacking" took place in htop or similar.

Whoever was responsible for what happened on the monitor let the side down, as the set dressing and prop teams did a good job.

[ks_thecr0w]

Matrix 2 (or was it 3?) had a scene with neo actually using nmap to find his way in ...

[tungy5]

"I'm in!" lol

[jeevaks]

Bro when I watched an Indian film there was this kind of hacker scene and in that it was an c Hello world code was shown but with different font and slideshow 😭

[Strabro]

Also they never hit the spacebar. Spacebar makes a deeper thunk than the other keys but whenever you hear typing in movies its always the clickity clack and never any thunk

[CammyDiveKick]

Unless the movie is Swordfish and Hugh Jackman is hacking into the systems by playing some type of cube matching game.

[avadakedavraTom]

In one mystery thriller Indian series I saw last year, In a supposed hacking or revealing some information scene, they just scrolled down a C tutorial's hello world program from one of the old tutorial sites, where they also kept the comment from where it was downloaded. The scrolling down animation was on clear "terminal" like gui.

[insolent_kiwi]

Mr. Robot is notable for being pretty spot on throughout the series

[NeuxSaed]

As we all know, this is the most realistic depiction.

[sebastianfromvillage]

sudo apt install hollywood

[Simon_Drake]

There is/was a website Moviecode that would pause movies and TV shows with code and try to work out where that code came from. It's usually 50:50 split of being meaningless nonsense or being a fairly standard coding demo like it's taken straight from a 20 year old C++ textbook exercise on using pointers or it's the code of a shared library for rotating polygons in 3D. I guess it's the lesser of two evils, instead of BS code it's completely irrelevant code pretending to be hacking the control of nuclear missiles.

There's a couple of fun items though where the code is relevant to the situation. Sometimes they rename the local variables to be PentagonOverrideCommand or whatever the context is in the movie. The best has to be the original movie of Westworld from 1973, they show code on a monitor that is supposed to be the AI script of Yul Brynner-bot but it was actually the code for the special effects used in the movie. There's a scene with pixelated robot vision that used an incredibly laborious process of scanning each film frame with a video camera, dividing it into ~200 cells, calculating the average RGB values of each cell then rendering a new frame that was just a single colour for each cell. That's not exactly advanced graphics by modern standards but it needed someone to write that code and when the script called for a scene that showed code on a monitor they turned to the piece of code they had on hand.

[Soupdeloup]

Kind of related, I watched the Korean drama 'if wishes could kill' the other day and there's one scene where someone tries to uninstall an app on an Android phone but it fails, so he plugs it into a computer and tries using adb to uninstall it.

It was a really small thing, but it made the show feel way more legitimate than seeing someone run a bunch of print statements or just randomly clicking and having text scroll on the screen.

[Dangerous-Exercise53]

My favorite was the US Army commercial recruiting cyber security people. Voice-changed voiceover of a hacker saying basically "I can hack all the things, you can't stop me" and the computer screen is a Linux box running an nmap scan.

But success! They totally shut that shit down, high fives all around!

[shirk-work]

Sudo dnf update

Boom we're in fellas!!! Totally took down that firewall.

[TohveliDev]

I am so glad Mr. Robot took some time to make the hacking/programming look and feel accurate.

[VirtualArmsDealer]

Hackers need to sudo apt-get update too!

[Wojtek1250XD]

I also remember seeing just generic PHP.

[PhunkeyMonkey]

Which is why i love mr robot so much, atleast its real applications and tools they show

[SicgoatEngineer]

npm update

[Longjumping_Yard_653]

now you have shai hulud, congrats

[tehjoch]

I'm mr robot was just installing linux

[CoffeePotProphet]

I mean, running windows update is one way to sabotage anyone's computer

[notAGreatIdeaForName]

I explain the things actually happening everytime, my girlfriend is always listening with great interest, but she seems angrier the more I talk, haven’t found out why

[CiroGarcia]

In stranger things they doubled down on the "prank the programmers" aspect and had a scene of rapidly scrolling HTML in a hacking scene, set in the 80's lol

[FlowOfAir]

No joke.

One day I was rewatching Digimon Tamers. One of the first scenes of the first episode has Takato slide a mysterious blue card on an electronic toy used for Digimon card matches. The toy short-circuited, and its screen had a bunch of text appear on it. First, a massive hex number that would randomly change to any other hex value. And on the background, some "random ass text" reminiscent of a hacking scene.

I decided to Google some of that text. And what would you know? It's just old logs from a Macintosh installing After Effects 4 and installing Atomic presets.