I remember watching Mr. Robot and then learning they actually brought in a good consultant. Probably the first time I felt things seemed legit’ish.
People talked about the steps that Trinity takes to take down the energy grid in the Matrix (3?) is pretty legit as well.
Have you guys seen Jurassic Park? It ran on UNIX!
kinda /s. I mean, it took somebody young and feminine to fix what the old white guy fucked up right? (I’m an old white guy fwiw, but MY system fuckups are all natural)
I mean the co-op hacking in NCIS where McGee and Abby are typing on the same keyboard is legit, right?
omg it’s not just a website but it’s in the repos?
Honestly though if i’m doing video stuff and I leave htop and nvtop running on the second screen, that gets you like half way to this.
It is indeed, I didn’t know for a long time and thought others would like to know 😁
Well, having a well maintained and up to date system is a cornerstone of any good hacking practice!
Not even that most of the time. I can think of maybe 2 movies that show actual computer stuff while everytjkng else shows entirely made up bullshit from the way a terminal looks, to visualizing a mainframe as a video game that doesn’t even look like a real video game (Masterminds is so goofy).
On Windows running
treefromC:\is a good one.Tracker puts “whatever I want to do” in curly braces.
I rewatched Stranger Things season 4, which takes place in 1986, and there’s a scene where code flashes on the screen while they’re “hacking”. It shows:
- Turbo C++ - not invented until 1990
- HTML - 1993
- HTTPS - 1994 (it’s called htsps on the screen)
- PHP - 1995
- CSS - 1996
- Iframe - 1997
- C# - 2000
- .NET Framework - 2002
- CoffeeScript - 2009
- Flexbox - 2009
The Stranger Things universe has time travel confirmed.
Literally unwatchable
Mr. Robot really spoiled me. How does that shit fly under the radar for such a high production show?
Been a while since I watched it. Did they actually take the time to do it right in that show?
Yeah. It was very realistic. Sometimes they simplified explanations a bit. They had real hackers as consultants, and Sam Esmail, the creator of the show, was into hacking and computers as a teen.
Cool! TIL
He didn’t use arch, btw.
Amateur… They should have just typed
TREEand hit enter like the professionalsbtop
All the hacking flash u need. A hacker needs to know the exact temperature of each CPU core at once at all times. In spaced out colors, for clarity.
Hey, at least they used something based in reality opposed to the traditional falling Matrix text… Actually, on second thought, that might be a little bit cooler.
At least if your goanna mombo and jumbo and make stuff up.
Do it with some flare
Should type in
call -151
(Apple 2 assembly entrance)
Yeahhh. Apple IIe, just turn it off, stick a disk in and turn it back on!
Live free or die hard 👌
10 PRINT "HAKZ0RZ G0 BRRRR… "; : PRINT
INT(RND(1)*999999999);" // TERMINAL SKILL +10 FBI HACKED EPSTEIN DECRYPTED"
20 GOTO 10
I seem to remember reading that what Trinity did in the opening scenes of The Matrix before the police busted in was actually doing a real exploit. So it got done properly at least once!
There’s a guy in one of the main irc chans I hang out in, who even after being there for a decade, still does not get it, still thinks we’re “hackers” … just because we run e.g.
eix-sync -q ; emerge -DuvaNqtg worlddoes not mean we’re “hackers”.
just go to the C-root and type “tree”
or to / for civilized people
