My company gives me the opportunity to specialize in security. Will i do it ? That’s another story.
But it made me remember hacker scenes in films:
- War games. A kid hacking into the Pentagon’s AI almost causes the Third World War to begin. My computing experience at the time consisted in playing with LOGO on an Apple IIc, so i thought it was pretty clever.
- Tron. Very educational. Your computer is powered by little people looking silly in weird fluorescent clothing. Hacking requires Formula 1 skills.
- Classic: Independence day. Computing genius hacks an Alien “Mainframe” with a laptop … in about 5 minutes
- Swordfish: cracking into a network is fun: it’s like playing a game with big coloured shapes – if you get to the third level you’re in.
- Antitrust – not too bad actually, some bits actually looked like they were written by half-geeks.
I know there are others of the same kind, but these are the ones I remember best.
You have to admire how hollywood turns the hours of drudgery and patience real crackers probably go through into breathtaking, adrenaline-laden wizbang. Too funny.
Hey, the latest in the series might be “Die Hard 4.0″ Action man meets Geek squad.
As a kid, I had some show running on French television (as were most of the nicer show at the time) about a bunch of kids riding on bikes and surrounding some geek kid named “Ritchie” with a talking computer in his room. I remember that computer was named “Ralph”, and once “died” as in lost his softwre. Luckily he could “reprogram” him (backups seem not something to be considered at the time) by connecting him through some modem line to some mainframe.
Anyway, I’ve been looking over the net to find which show this was, but never found out. I’d be happy to find out.
Could it be whiz kids ? never saw it, myself. sounds funny
It sounds like that, yes. The title does not ring a bell – it must have been some French translation back then when i saw it. But the short description matches. Thanks!
How could you not mention the little nmap tutorial by Trinity
hehe, i was not aware of it
thanks for this cool bit of geek trivia !