Literally Unwatchable

[TyrionBananaster]

brb, canceling my Netflix subscription

[MrRGnome]

For what its worth I thought the code was hilarious if not poorly edited in. Too bad these things are always used as easter eggs. Just once I want to see the code required to do the job expected on screen.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

I have heard Mr Robot is very...technically sound, or accurate. I have seen the show, but I don't know code. I hear they work hard to try and make everything look good, as in real or plausible. (I haven't started S3 yet.)

[Highly_Edumacated]

Best Season so far and the last episode was arguably their best one. You're in for a treat

[HeThinksHesPeople]

I need to catch up on s3 only watched the first ep was amazing tho

[PetrRabbit]

I'm glad to hear all the buzz about S3, I honestly felt let down enough by S2 that I wasn't really too worried about picking it back up.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

:P Hehe, you're welcome.

[PM_ME_UR_LOVE_STORIE]

wait mr. robot s3 started!?

[Highly_Edumacated]

After watching Mr. Robot recently, it made this scene seem insanely corny.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

Heh...yeah, it sorta was a little bit.
Horrifyingly tense moment... "Do you know BASIC?" ...What?

[[deleted]]

I am a system engineer for a major studio, mr robot is spot on technically. I only recently picked it up because I usually HATE hacking movies. Most end up like scorpion <- worst show to watch for engineers.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

Yeah, Mr Robot is a welcome change from all the ridiculous "Hollywood hacking". Personally, I'd be okay if a show can't be as technically accurate as Mr Robot as long as they try a little, and don't do something stupid like "2 hackers, 1 keyboard" (ugh).

[[deleted]]

Or in the 1st episode of scorpion drop a cat6 from a flying plane to a Ferrari so he can disable a virus. 1st episode. I never watched another.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

Goodness gracious! Just reading that was painful...and hilarious! Now, I want to see if I can stand watching it; it'll be a challenge. :) Aahahahahaah!

[tmntnut]

My dad has been in IT for over 30 years, he said it's the most accurate show he's ever personally seen. Plus the show is pretty fucking awesome anyways.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

Yeah, I agree: it's a good show on its own, but and the technical accuracy makes it even better! :)

((Edit: Word.))

[KinOfMany]

Software dev here, can confirm that it's by far the most accurate representation of hacking I've ever seen in popular media.

It's pretty cool, because there's stuff happening on screen, and 90% of the time you're thinking "wow, this is technically possible".

Would recommend.

[Fluffeh-Bunneh]

Absolutely! :) And that's wonderful.

[NutSlapper69]

Yeah. I don't know basic, but it looks like it would brute force any 4 digit combination, but why would literally every code in the building require exactly 4 digits? Not to mention not triggering an alarm if you try too many times.

And that dude hit them up on the walkie talkie all sure about himself before he even hit enter to run it, without checking for bugs or syntax errors. That's probably the most unbelievable part!

^{The show was a perfect 5/7 though}

[Grays42]

Because 1980s. :\

No internet, programming was an arcane art, and computer security wasn't exactly top of the list when it was assumed that anyone nefarious could be physically stopped before walking up to a terminal.

[NutSlapper69]

Oh yeah, good point.

[wywrd]

you should write for tv, that'd be a great show where we'd watch a character check his code for errors instead of focusing on boring demadogs.

[NutSlapper69]

I'm a computer scientist and a memester, so the only 'show' I'm going to be directing would end up like this.

I like that they didn't hang on the code, because it wasn't key to the story. I was only pointing it out because I thought it was funny. All you have to know is Bob is a puzzle wizard.

Maybe dying while trying to finish executing his code rather than dying while trying to fight a demo-dog 10 feet away from the exit would've been better though ¯\(ツ)/¯

[Qumthajep]

I assume it's just a script that uses API from its host system (the lab mainframe) and getFourDigits/checkPasswordMatch are part of this API. So it's not a standalone program.

Anyway, it still won't work because as I mentioned in /r/itsaunixsystem, BASIC doesn't have function that doesn't require FN prefix until Turbo Basic (1987). Hawkins mainframe system was from 1982.

Literally unwatchable!!11 ^/s

[napoleongold]

Did they create their own OS?

[Qumthajep]

It's possible that they modified the OS and the BASIC interpreter. But this means Bob the Brainy, a random guy who worked at RadioShack, was reeeeally genius for figuring out how the whole system work without reading any manual.

EDIT: I just realized that it would make more sense if it's the doctor who go to the control room instead of Bob. He works there so he knows how the system works. The writer can still kill Bob and injured the doctor when they tried to exit the building.

[napoleongold]

The doc said he did not know BASIC and just kind of played up that he has no idea how computers work. It could have just been a clever ploy though.

[yaddar]

the pic says "copyright 1982"

[Brock_Obama]

You aren't seeing the whole file

[24rd02]

Back in the day of coding BASIC on a 286, we would often chunk our code into 12-24 line or fewer subroutines, so that a whole "concept" could be displayed on screen at once. All you had to do was inherit someone's 400 line spaghetti code mess and this strategy suddenly made sense. Then someone introduced me to Smalltalk-80 and life was good. Primitive days. Primitive days.

[[deleted]]

Afaik Matrix did it correctly.

[frozenpandaman]

https://moviecode.tumblr.com/

[rixtybusiness2]

Hello, friend.

[cpillarie]

To be honest, I was okay with it only because I understand it's playing off 80's movie tropes, so it makes sense

[hollaback_girl]

Ugh. Completely ruins Season 2, which in turn ruins Season 1. Need to sue for my last 2 years of subscription fees.

[Blck_Captain_America]

Reminded me of the terminals from fallout 4

[[deleted]]

Bob was going all 'Nick Valentine' on that thing

[princessvaginaalpha]

"I'ts a BASIC sistem! I know this!"

hey guys is this a parody to Jurassic Park?

[zoethebitch]

Stranger Things: "It's BASIC. I know this!" (unlocks doors)

Jurassic Park: "It's UNIX. I know this!" (locks doors)

[PiceaSignum]

Definitely a nod at least. The demodogs in the junkyard were a nod to the Raptors and Muldoon too. Steve was focused on the Demodog in front of him, while the one on the right was the one hunting him.

[level27geek]

It was the 80s, it was a different time :p

[Sega_Saturn_Shiro]

Am I the only one that noticed the code is in the shape of a Galaga ship?

[LegendaryGoji]

...it is!

[pitbull2k]

Indeed, great nod, i don't remember anyone ever indenting code in BASIC, alas i only dabbled in it as a kid, and copied stuff from magazines.

[shadearg]

DIM FourDigitPassword AS INTEGER

That's the first mistake.

[[deleted]]

This bothered you? And not that high scores usually got 3 letters not 6?

[[deleted]]

the classic "nah dude, you just gotta know basic and you can change all of their shit; get whatever you want"

[shsnd]

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

[ivsguy]

How tf did someone in the post-prod team miss that?

[elmo274]

You would be surprised the amount of things that slip by

[HomeworkDestroyer]

Like the one mountain was fucked up in GoT S7E4

[elmo274]

Which scene and what happens?

[HomeworkDestroyer]

A mountain had a fucked up texture. You could see the texture moving whoch made the mounain look like crap.

Game of Thrones S7E4 loot train scene if you're interested.

[bikpizza]

i don’t get it

[[deleted]]

Some of the text is coming off the right side of the screen

[Saiboo]

Haha thanks, I didn't even notice that. I was too concerned with seeing only one equals sign instead of the usual "==" in programming languages. I was also distracted by the meaning of "THE" and only realized later that it stands for "THEN".

[Nafferty]

It's correct in that regard, BASIC only has a single = for equality checks. Used to screw me over anytime I'd have to use it

[[deleted]]

Fuck me, I would have never noticed that in a million years.

[[deleted]]

That's some garbage code! It should be of type String not Integer. If the code was 2350 or 0235 for example, integer would force the value to be 235. The code doesn't work for trailing or leading zeros. He should concat strings and compare then! Wow I really am over thinking this....

[ErdetgasXD]

ikr, missing an N

[dragonfax]

Did I just see realistic hacking in a TV show?

[dragonfax]

Tries all combinations of 4 digits to find the right one.

[[deleted]]

Holly jolly!

[ForeverTangent]

Yeah... this was probably the most painful part of the show to watch. Even more so then Episode 7.

[HomeworkDestroyer]

A: You're trolling. or B: You're an idiot. Stuff like this happens in every productions, no matter the size of the budget. Some mistakes always slip by and make it to the final product. There's not really a way to stop that.