this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
1515 points (98.9% liked)
Programmer Humor
32371 readers
770 users here now
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
Rules:
- Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
- No NSFW content.
- Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
ngl the movie the net in the 90s was actually pretty believable when it came to hacking
War dialing. Social engineering. Absolutely.
Also, hackers (except for the screen projecting on the characters faces).
It's in that place I put that thing that time.
also ordering pizza on the computer
that was the future I wanted to believe in
When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.
Even these days I'm still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.
That phobia is exactly why I'm still using that piece of crap like PayPal.
I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.
When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.
EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one's using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it's a magstrip or someone punching numbers in...
And honorable mention to the non-existing Matrix sequel that had an actual SSH vulnerability on screen.
I think Trinity was using nmap to port scan or ping sweep the subnet, also
The one with Sandra Bullock? Concept-wise it was quite realistic. But the hacking itself, man that was some unbelievable stuff. I don't think they got any fact or term right. Almost as if the OG Clippy helped: "It looks like you want to make a hacker-related movie..."
No