Here’s a trigger for you all: Numb3rs description of IRC
“Two ships meeting in uncharted waters”. Are you fucking kidding me?
Mr. Robot: Hold my editor
I can relate whenever there are scenes in movies where characters are supposed to make art. Either the actor movies the pen or brush in a way that betrays that they have zero understanding of what they’re doing or the art itself is hilariously mediocre despite being supposedly magnificent and beautiful according to other characters in the movie.
Same with violins. Like, do they just not understand where the bow is supposed to rest? Have they never seen a violin in their lives?
I once watched some police procedural show (don’t remember which copaganda it was exactly) where they were trying to track someone’s location online. Couldn’t stop laughing when they showed an IPv4 address starting with 624.
Mind you, that’s for the same reason all American phone numbers in shows have a 555 prefix – showing a real address could lead to liability if e.g. someone tries to launch an attack on that address they saw on TV.
Unlike phone numbering schemes, the IPv4 address space has no well-known area reserved for fictitious addresses. Sure, you could use something like 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, or 203.0.113.0/24 (test networks for use in documentation), but those aren’t well-known outside of certain circles.
So they just go with completely invalid addresses because that’s easy.
Just use 127.0.0.1 as the address and let hackers try to attack it.
I’m in
The Chad move would be to have one such scene that looks normal to casual observers, but then turns out the hacker has an automated scanning tool running in the background of the screen, while they’re just typing nonsense in the command prompt.
He’s too good, I can’t trace his ip!
They should’ve traced his ipv6, while 624::/16 isn’t currently allocated, it is at least usable if we need it.
Well, well, well.
If we go outside of dottted decimal notation of IPv4, we can have addresses starting with 624. They can also be in decimal, octal, and hexadecimal.
Oh, and IPv4 also supports shortening from middle right in dotted decimal. For example, 127.0.0.1 is too long, often you may be able to use 127.1.
Or you can go to Cloudflare’s https://1.1/While you can convert (or rather represent) an ipv4 as decimal, op indirectly stated that they were in dotted decimal notation and as such the leading 624 doesn’t work in that context.
Also shortening ipv4 is cursed, why must you share this knowledge?
Also also, curious to note that glibc parses 1 as ipv4 0.0.0.1 and not ipv6 ::1, probably because they predate ipv6.
I left a story if almost exactly this. Had to update a six person halo shooter arcade game. It runs on Linux. Took a bunch of trouble shooting to 1 get it to update over Internet, & 2 give up and just use a flash drive. But we had opened by then and a bunch of people gathered around whispering “yo he’s hacking like in the movies!”. I was using a Bluetooth keyboard made to be used by two thumbs…
I rewatched Stranger Things season 4, which takes place in 1986, and there’s a scene where code flashes on the screen while they’re “hacking”. It shows:
- Turbo C++ - not invented until 1990
- HTML - 1993
- HTTPS - 1994 (it’s called htsps on the screen)
- PHP - 1995
- CSS - 1996
- Iframe - 1997
- C# - 2000
- .NET Framework - 2002
- CoffeeScript - 2009
- Flexbox - 2009
Hey, at least they used something based in reality opposed to the traditional falling Matrix text… Actually, on second thought, that might be a little bit cooler.
Should type in
call -151
(Apple 2 assembly entrance)
Yeahhh. Apple IIe, just turn it off, stick a disk in and turn it back on!
Amateur… They should have just typed
TREEand hit enter like the professionalsLiterally unwatchable
Yeah most hacking scenes are ridiculous. Shows like mr.robot are more realistic.
The problem is that now they are outdated as fuck
I seem to remember reading that what Trinity did in the opening scenes of The Matrix before the police busted in was actually doing a real exploit. So it got done properly at least once!
echo Im inI vaguely remember a movie or show that was compiling something with cmake which has some pretty clean output.
Row row row your boat
Normies: “shut up, he is doing magic stuff”
“I’m in.”
