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Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”
- PascalsMugger 10y agoWhy are we adding (2016) to current year submissions now?
- maxerickson 10y agoWhy is ~1 user doing it is the question. I guess there is a good chance they just prefer it.
- rfreytag 10y agoBecause when searching in 2017+ knowing the year of the article might be nice. With the Wayback Machine and its ilk around the Internet is not ephemeral.
- ajanuary 10y agoMost posts are contemporary, which means you can use the post date to figure out the year of the article without clogging up the list of titles with (2016)
- overcast 10y agoSo time travelers feel more comfortable. You know how offended everyone gets these days.
- curiousgal 10y agoTrigglypuff jumps to mind.
- pingswept 10y agoGoddam fateless tickers. Why can't they just stay put?
- slazaro 10y agoAt first sight I thought the movie was from 2016, since "Title (Year)" is a very common way of mentioning movies, but this movie is from 1992, so that's not it.
- fnordsensei 10y agoI haven't seen the movie, so I went looking for a movie named Sneakers that was released this year. It turns out that it was just CGI /so advanced/ that it took humanity 24 years to reproduce in real time.
- slantyyz 10y agoWow, I didn't realize it came out in 1992, I thought it came out a few years later. Now I'm really starting to feel old. In 1992, I was still using the Hayes command set to connect to the broader world. +++ ath
- dang 10y agoWe're not, so we've (belatedly) taken that out.
- k2enemy 10y agoVery cool! My favorite movie. See also: https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt although yours much more faithfully recreated the Sneakers scene.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI loved that movie too, and I find it holds up far better than a lot of technologically-minded fare from the early 90's. It was one of those allstar casts that really got some mileage from the various personalities and styles, I think.
- smileysteve 10y agoGiven the current government war on encryption and the snowden revelations, we might say it's as timely today as it was in 92' if not more
- Aelinsaar 10y agoIt certainly proves the thesis of the film, which is that the "good guys" are not so good as to be trusted with everyone's secrets.
- mistersquid 10y agoYeah this is some fun, cool code. I just finished re-watching _Sneakers_ last night and while it didn't hold up to my memory, I was again mesmerized by Whistler's reconstructing the route taken by the car in which Bishop had been abducted. I racked my brain but couldn't figure out which bridge Bishop's abductors had crossed. The web came to my rescue.[0] [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/sneakers_a_quixotic_attempt_to_recreate_my_favorite_scene_from_phil_alden_robinson_s_movie_.html http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/sneake... EDIT: grammar, URL
- Aelinsaar 10y agoOh, now this I like! Now I just have to 3D print Whistler's custom braille keyboard...
- USANEEDSHELP 10y agoI love this. I love the movie. It's geeky and I went on a date to see this movie with a female friend of mine at the time (we weren't girl/boy friend at that time). Now she is my wife of almost 20 years (2017). IT was playing at the Midway Theater in Forest Hills NY.
- linker3000 10y agoKinda reminds me of what I did at school in about 1980 while dicking around on a Commodore PET 3016.
- kazinator 10y agoOne of my earliest machine language programs was an experiment to see how fast a 1 MHz Apple II+ could count to a million. The code initialized some characters in the display buffer to ASCII '0' and then incremented them directly.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAnyone feel like creating an xscreensaver hack using this?
- nickpsecurity 10y agoNah, The Matrix code was the last screensaver we ever needed. Even nostalgia for Sneakers doesn't make the effect cooler. Probably just that the Matrix makes better background noise, tricking your mind into spotting patterns.
- zandorg 10y agoAnd of course, the anagram software they used (as mentioned in the commentary) was most likely NAMEGRAM, an old DOS program.
- fotbr 10y ago'Tis very nicely done. I wish I had the time or talent to turn this into an actual shell.
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- chris_wot 10y agoSeriously, this is the smartest, most interesting, and oddly the most accurate movie I've ever watched about computer and network security. And it was hugely entertaining, compelling and exciting! This movie introduced a lot of people to cryptography, tiger teams and ethical cracking/hacking. Also, it had Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and River Phoenix. One of my all time favourite movies.
- VonGuard 10y agoIf you want to do a road trip, the Sneakers office was in the second floor of the Fox Theater in Oakland. No idea where Seatec Astronomy was. Maybe Fremont.
- chris_wot 10y agoI don't own an acquatic car that has enough mileage to get from Sydney to Oakland :-(
- codezero 10y agoIMDb has a nice list of filming locations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/locations http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/locations Was Setec one of the locations? Is that where they did the handoff with the fake FBI folks? I remember Playtronics was the one large building they broke into.
- unsignedint 10y agoSetec Astronomy is just a code name of the project, not an actual place.
- jason_slack 10y agoPlaytronics was the office they were headed to.
- annoying_tech 10y agoDoesn't work with screenfetch and neofetch :'( but... https://gfycat.com/WanSecretGyrfalcon https://gfycat.com/WanSecretGyrfalcon
- ryhanson 10y agoFor the people who want to try this on OS X run `locate ncurses.h` to see if you have the ncurses library. If you have Xcode installed, you should have it in a few places. Then update the Makefile, set `NCURSES_H = {dir}` and it should make and install just fine.
- secfirstmd 10y agoMaybe added that to their github?
- kazinator 10y agoThis could be done with a single VT100 escape: print multi-line junk, move the cursor back, print less junky junk, repeat. (Even with some optimization: for any line that is not changing any more, just emit a CR-LF). You don't even need to put the TTY into raw mode; no termios calls needed, and \n is your CR-LF.
- _pius 10y agoIf you have a better implementation, ship it. Don't trash someone else's work from the sidelines. edit: OP removed the snark from the comment.
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- zwischenzug 10y ago'What did it sound like?' I loved that film. Loved it.
- zwischenzug 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM
- fapjacks 10y agoI really like this, too... I have this movie (and others including Antitrust and, yes, Hackers) in my "night time playlist" for when my wife goes back home to visit family for a few weeks each summer and Christmas. It is a very comfortable movie for me.
- sneak 10y agoI did, as well. -sneak
- tracker1 10y agoI feel suddenly motivated to work on my telnet bbs to put this to use... :-)
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- davesque 10y agoHe should have published it under a github organization called Setec Astronomy.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoDang I thought it would be the one that changed the characters into a line drawing of a map.
- stuxnet79 10y agoSneakers came out before I was even born but now I feel compelled to watch this old, and perhaps cringe-worthy hacker movie. Hope it does not disappoint.
- steeef 10y ago"Cringe-worthy"? Hardly. You owe it to yourself to watch it. It's easily one of the best hacker movies.
- beachstartup 10y agoit's the best one, by far.
- oatmale 10y agoI'm partial to operation takedown which is a pretty solid representation of Kevin mitnick.
- serf 10y agoNo way. In that movie Mitnick was outright violent towards Shimomura (he wasn't in real life) , along with a few totally ficticious real-life encounters between the two. Also, this movie depicted Mitnick destroying files and evidence (didn't happen). The script was leaked during his defense. No good. I understand movie magic and drama, but what a kicker to be trying to defend yourself legally while a Hollywood production glorifies you as a criminal while simultaneously injecting fiction into the true story.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 10y agoIt's not cringe-worthy. You'll enjoy it.
- stirner 10y agoYour C API seems to take a null-terminated string without a specified length.
- jason_slack 10y agoSneakers was just as much about social engineering as it was its technical nature. I love this movie. I think I must listen to is as I work a few times a month. One thing I took away from this movie is Whistler able to solve pieces while listening. It showed me that I should always listen first and interject my input after :-)