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I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

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Occasionally there are some real treats in those snippets. I remember being floored when Trinity exploited a real ssh v1 bug in Matrix Reloaded.

My memory is probably faulty but didn't she use nmap too?

Yep. (Discussed more than once on HN, which is why I know this link exists:)

https://nmap.org/movies/

Yes.

The movie "Demon Seed" showed a DECsystem 10 command line. Hahaha.

I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints:

  ISBN = 9780199226559

This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

Also Eddie Izzard shows how it really looks like: https://youtu.be/TKQzqwn-jIM?si=Ad_ZMhFr4As6H0lr

Well, at least movies no longer run the ka-chunka-ka-chunka ASR-33 teletype sounds when showing text on a screen.

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

I paused the film to catch Lisbeth Salander, brilliant hacker and investigator, doing exactly this kind of complex query.

I guess the brilliant hacking was the bit you don’t see getting access to the super secure database in the first place?

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

I guess there might be Bobby 'insert into EMPLOYEES...' tables somewhere.

Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry

Also hackers in movies never use a mouse!

Alng the same lines: movies and tv shows have taught me that there are no door knobs in the future.

I beg to differ, here's Scotty using one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY

He's a miraculous worker!

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