Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering and phreaking payphones. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
Swordfish was always one of my favorites. Writing a worm using a custom compiler he wrote many years prior (to 2001) and had stored on a tape drive in some dusty basement.
Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
ACCESS DENIEDACCESS DENIEDACCESS GRANTEDTIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
sneakers was in 90s… they had it mostly right vs … the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering and phreaking payphones. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
But then you have scenes like this
let’s not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)
Swordfish was always one of my favorites. Writing a worm using a custom compiler he wrote many years prior (to 2001) and had stored on a tape drive in some dusty basement.
You’re saying that like the trope isn’t alive and well to this day 😅
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
Oh damn I should have read that properly 😂
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.