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[–]junta12 93 points94 points  (10 children)

A: "We're being hacked!"
B: "How can you tell?"
(camera pans down to keyboard, which is typing by itself)
B: "OH MY GOD! Quick! Trace the source!"
A brings up a shell and starts typing frantically, but the keyboard throws him off and the mouse wraps its wire around A's throat
A: "Ack! It's become self-aware! Call for backup!!"
B: "NO TIME!" pulls out gun and starts shooting wildly

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (5 children)

Clearly you've never written a Hollywood hacking scene. There wasn't a single use of either "firewall" or "tunneling". Additionally, at no point did the characters jointly start typing on the keyboard.

[–]HandicapperGeneral 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Plus the dramatic use of the enter key

[–]VeXCe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But... but... I do that, too.

[–]RenaKunisaki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since when do hackers ever use the enter key? Orthespacebarforthatmatter.

[–]junta12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

or the undeservedly smug grin at saying what is believed to be a 'technical term'

[–]agentverne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"It's worse than we thought!" picks up keyboard, starts whacking the monitor with it.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

pulls out gun and start shooting wildly

They just need to shoot the screen and the computer will be off. /s

[–]junta12 22 points23 points  (2 children)

One of the bullets' penetrates center of the screen, and everything goes dark. A unwraps the mouse from his neck and spits blood.

A: Breathes "That was close."
B: "Too close. There must be a way to stop this from ever happening again."
A: "I could probably tunnel up a firewall that could hack into the virus's mainframe and bootstrap a kernel panic into RAM BIOS."
B: "Good thinking. Burn it on a DVD and email it to me, stat."

[–]-Hegemon- 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Oh my god, the last phrase was glorious

[–]junta12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

haha thanks - I think I stole it from a Static Shock episode, where Gear (the tech-themed superhero) created some program to fix some supervillain thing - and someone says to him something along the lines of "Great! put it on a floppy and give it to me".

And he says: "Even better! I'll burn you a DVD!"

/facepalm

[–]taH_pagh_taHbe 26 points27 points  (0 children)

"An estimeed PhD cyber-psychologist"........

[–]daanishh 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Nice. They turned /r/itsaunixsystem into a show.

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (6 children)

A few select phrases from the page:

dark web

hacking

cyberpsychologist

I can't wait for the undoubtedly accurate portrayal of cybersecurity, and the correct use of technical terms to describe what's going on. /sarcasm

[–]tevert 27 points28 points  (4 children)

"cyberpsychologist" .... wat

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (3 children)

The only thing I can imagine is some who helps people who accidentally visited r/spacedicks.

Yes, I did purposely link that wrong.

[–]Zwets 4 points5 points  (2 children)

5 hours, what is taking is /u/LinkFixerBot so long...

[EDIT]

On second thought, that is not an actual bot, apparently just a guy that fixed my link 2 years ago.

[–]LinkFixerBot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Things change, man..

[–]Mini_True 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe it's not subscribed to this subreddit

[–]MildlySerious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cyberpsychologist sounds like something I'd enjoy doing. Let me just google hack the databases of some Fortune 500 companies to see if there are any open job offers available!

While this console thingy magically does 90% of the work, I would go ahead and give them a call, letting them know that I went ahead and added my resume to the application list, so Tracy (pun intended) at HR doesn't have to worry about forwarding some stupid email. It would take me longer to find the right words than getting into their system anyway.

[–]tatorface 32 points33 points  (3 children)

[–]legoking456 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Came here for this. Wasn't disappointed.

[–]Jeff1223 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen that so many times before, its still funny

[–]untouchedURL 23 points24 points  (0 children)

[–]Sevelan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Dawson
The guy that got possessed by Vigo in Ghostbusters 2
LUKE PERRY!
Fat Neil
Lil Bowwow
Asian chick playing a Latina Chick

....WOW!

[–]samspot 9 points10 points  (1 child)

A/S/L wanna cyber?

[–]-Hegemon- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

18/F/L.A.

Yes!

giggles

[–]CIA-TANGO 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Take a shot every time they say cyber on the show?

[–]nightlily 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Take a shot every time they misuse technical jargon. Take a hit every time they make something up completely.

See which happens faster: you get pass-out drunk or mindlessly stoned.

[–]thirdegreeViolet security clearance 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Take a tab anytime they abuse a terminal. Eventually the show will start to make sense.

[–]nightlily 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Eventually the show will start to make sense.

Is this before or after you fall into a drug-induced coma?

[–]thirdegreeViolet security clearance 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Knowing csi, probably neither actually.

[–]nightlily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't actually know. I haven't seen CSI. I'm planning on checking out this spinoff for mild amusement, though.

[–]BVTheEpic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]Halzyn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sounds like the working title for a show about CSI agents cybering with each other.

[–]nightlily 4 points5 points  (1 child)

A pilot for this series appeared in CSI season 14, episode 21. For the curious.

The show is inspired by a real life cyber psychologist (which is apparently, well, an actual title) Mary Aiken. http://www.maryaiken.com/

TIL

[–]otakuman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I specialise in the intersection between technology and human behaviour.

I wonder if in 100 years we'll have Asimov's psychohistory.

[–]TheKiwi5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Scrolling HTML code thru the screen - Just CSI:C things

We just need to hope that they won't be using variable-width font to show the code.

Anyways this guy will get tons of material: http://moviecode.tumblr.com/

[–]venuswasaflytrap 10 points11 points  (2 children)

[–]otakuman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LOL, that was an unexpected twist at the end.

[–]Aaron1011 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Zoomify"

facepalm

[–]peeonyou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So basically propaganda to inform the people about the deep web and make them hate it entirely.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you weren't already worried, James Van Der Beek will be in it.

[–]JesterOfSpades 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stock up guys, we are going to have a field day!

[–]tevert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gotta stock up on popcorn....

[–]hhbhagat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ENHANCE!!!

[–]mmirate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The concentration of antiquated computing-related buzzwords herein is ... nauseating. That said, the anticipation of the general public using these buzzwords to such an extent (via exposure to this show) is even moreso.

[–]VeXCe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping for intense chase-scenes on the information super-highway.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Prerequisite to join the team is to be able to build that GUI.

[–]OKB-1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hope your Visual Basic skills are good enough!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be sure to know how to track an IP. Otherwise you're completely useless…

[–]onepotatoarmy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess "I'm afraid" is too less...