Does any movie depict hacking accurately?

[Lord Avalon]

There's John Connor hacking an ATM, and later a security keypad, in Terminator 2.

[Nostromo]

WarGames

[Asher]

Wargames rules.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


What??? Where they hacked into an alien computer system they'd never seen before using ENGLISH??

That isn't actually true - they had access to both an alien ship and it's computer, but doing it in that short time may be a bit ptimistic.

Nah, what I find much more entertaining is when they pop off the lid of some entrance device and start firing off random numbers and gettingthrough in a few secs - hell, even my companys low security devices beeps at me if I hit the buttons too fast. Well, maybe (typically) US high security facilities has lousy security designers

[Elok]

Just watched "The Core" after reading on Intuitor that it was comically stupid. Hoo boy, was it ever! Ludicrous premise, ludicrous acting, ludicrous special effects. The whole package.

But it did also include a "hacker genius kid" from Carnegie Mellon, presumptively modeled after Kuci, who uses a chewing gum wrapper to make a cell phone get free long distance. I kid you not.

Actually, no, it's possible that the kid was supposed to be just fiddling with the wrapper. I was laughing pretty hard the whole time, so in retrospect I can't be sure what I saw. Gotta be fair.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Elok
But it did also include a "hacker genius kid" from Carnegie Mellon, presumptively modeled after Kuci, who uses a chewing gum wrapper to make a cell phone get free long distance. I kid you not.

Actually, no, it's possible that the kid was supposed to be just fiddling with the wrapper. I was laughing pretty hard the whole time, so in retrospect I can't be sure what I saw. Gotta be fair.

From what I recall (which was years ago), The Core actually utilized a well-known phreaking technique that used to work for that.

[Asher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking

Whistling at a certain frequency triggers certain things on the telco end..

[Kuciwalker]

Used to. The current systems are not vulnerable to that problem.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Used to. The current systems are not vulnerable to that problem.

That is the meaning of the phrase "used to", yes. But it's not as absurd as Elok thinks.

[Elok]

What, so I made fun of the one part of the movie that might possibly have sort of worked? Story of my life.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Elok
What, so I made fun of the one part of the movie that might possibly have sort of worked? Story of my life.

It is pretty amusing.

[Elok]

Well, they did also have people tunneling into the Earth's core and not imploding, but that's not hacking-related. I wanted to mock the film but had to stay germane, cut me some slack. The only other stuff I can think of is that hacker-boy had some seriously lame-ass custom graphics on his laptop, and mixed up "its" and "it's."



Bah.

[Asher]

I still love you.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I agree Core is a really strong contender for most ridiculous movie premise EVER. Though I didn't get to see the one they made about re-starting the Sun with a nuke which was an obvious attempt to one up the Core. Did anyone who saw both care to give an opinion?

[Tuberski]

Does anyone who saw both dare to admit it?

ACK!