When will they learn? Mr. Robot is the only thing I can think of that actually cared about making "hacking" realistic. Even movies about hacking fail miserably.
It's a no-brainer. Hire literally any competent CS major to consult and do what they say
I love that someone took the time to write that snippet and scatter a few 1980s references through it and yet somehow failed to register that the entire concept is off by...two and a half decades?
That's not all. There was some HTML code that Dustin's girlfriend was looking at when she was hacking into that computer using an acoustic modem. Don't think HTML was a thing in 1983.