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That is a fun article, but they left out my favorite: the dial tone when someone hangs up. Speaking of phones, it's interesting to see movies' choices about th

That is a fun article, but they left out my favorite: the dial tone when someone hangs up. Speaking of phones, it's interesting to see movies' choices about the UI on mobile phones. Do they try to show something like a real phone, or do they give a simplified UI that the audience can read at a glance? I remember seeing the Net as a teen, and in the climactic scene when the bad guys were trying to break into the room, and Sandra Bullock was hacking their computer and waiting tensely for a progress bar to finish, while it slowly crept towards completion and the bangs on the door got louder, the audience could see it and read . . . "resolving IP address."

javajosh 4y ago
DNS resolvers can be slow, ya know.
nottorp 4y ago
I believe Matrix 2 had an actual proper hacking scene. All command line, showing a script exploiting some ssh vulnerability that was actually real at the time they filmed.
- detaro 4y ago
  https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred/ https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hac...
  - Macha 4y ago
    > But then, the film does take place in the future. Is Zalewski surprised to see unpatched SSH servers running in the year AD 2199? "It's not that uncommon for people to run the old distribution," he says. "I know we had a bunch of boxes that were unpatched for two years." Zalewski here is a security analyst. At least that's one thing that's improved, but I suppose this was the era of SQL injections in every second website.
account42 4y ago
Interactible computers in general are common in video games. But rarely does the interface even have nearly the complexity as a real OS. I imagine there must be some games that go all the way and run an actual OS in a VM or emulator though. Similarly to some games that let you play the predecessor/inspiration from an in-game device like e.g. Day of the Tentacle which includes a fully playable Maniac Mansion.

javajosh 4y ago

DNS resolvers can be slow, ya know.

nottorp 4y ago

I believe Matrix 2 had an actual proper hacking scene. All command line, showing a script exploiting some ssh vulnerability that was actually real at the time they filmed.

detaro 4y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred/ https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hac...
- Macha 4y ago
  > But then, the film does take place in the future. Is Zalewski surprised to see unpatched SSH servers running in the year AD 2199? "It's not that uncommon for people to run the old distribution," he says. "I know we had a bunch of boxes that were unpatched for two years." Zalewski here is a security analyst. At least that's one thing that's improved, but I suppose this was the era of SQL injections in every second website.

account42 4y ago

Interactible computers in general are common in video games. But rarely does the interface even have nearly the complexity as a real OS. I imagine there must be some games that go all the way and run an actual OS in a VM or emulator though. Similarly to some games that let you play the predecessor/inspiration from an in-game device like e.g. Day of the Tentacle which includes a fully playable Maniac Mansion.