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What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show?
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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.
The NCIS two-hackers-one-keyboard video is the metric by which all other suck is measured.
Hacking back in time in Kung Fury is easily the best, most accurate depiction of hacking in any media ever.
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For anyone wanting the opposite, Mr. Robot had great hacking scenes
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.
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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.
"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."
Or Uplink game.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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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?
Joey hacks the gibson using some kind of intense graphical interface on Mac OS (7 maybe?) on his Apple IIGS.
Huh?!
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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.
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Password Swordfish.
dat bj tho
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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