Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Top ten bad hacker movie moments

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CSI might be a TV show, but man, do they stink at technobabble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Swordfish has probably 5 of the top 10 scenes.
This one has some bad language and some insinuated sex, but it involves
hacking the Dept of Defense (with 128-bit encryption, no less!) in 60
seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY8HysBzsE
There's another scene where the protagonist writes a virus, by watching a
cube spin around and going "OH YEAH!!!" over and over like the Kool-Aid man.
Seriously.

Probably the most famous bad hacking scene ever is in Jurassic Park... "It's
a UNIX system... I know this!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

Hackers from 1995 is a two-hour-long bad hacking scene, with bits of
Angelina Jolie spliced in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0

Untraceable clearly had a writer who consulted with a computer guy, because
they actually did a half-decent job at trying to make a believable hacking
scenario. It still fails miserably, but they get bonus points for trying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZGp_oAFQU (skip to the 4 minute mark)

Firewall is a painfully bad one, too.
There's one scene where Harrison Ford needs to get data off a computer.
Instead of uploading it to the internet or putting it on disk, he  takes the
light sensor from a scanner, plugs it into his ipod, and then tapes it to
his computer screen.
I couldn't find video of this.

The Italian Job uses hacking almost as a Deus Ex Machina plot device. That
was painful to watch too.

The Core is a movie about the core of the earth's rotation stopping, and
they need to send people with nukes and a computer hacker to the center of
the earth to jumpstart it again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiRuHKNrEw

Antitrust has some great awful hacking scenes. The opening credits are the
best part, though, where it flashes computer code up on the screen. This
computer code is just HTML though. The premise to the plot is that the Big
Evil Corporation steals code by reading it via hidden camera from basement
hackers' computer screens as they code.

Prison Break, another TV show, has a part where some hacker dude builds a
device that can download all the data fron nearby electronics (a 20 foot
radius or so), be it RAM memory, a CD, a SSD or a normal hard drive.
Presumably through Van Eck Phreaking or something like that.

That's about all I can think of.

2009/10/17 matt donohue <mm_...@ya...>

> My son insisted on watching Independence Day on cable.
>
> The part where they are going to 'upload' a virus to the mothership might
> make a top ten.
> I said to my son, "we need to run to Radio Shack and get a Mothership
> adapter."
> and then- "what luck, the Mothership OS is Windows".
>
> What are your top ten bad hacker movie moments?
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