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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 36 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We've truly come a long way.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 34 points 10 hours ago

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 hours ago

TIL the term "wardialing" (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

sneakers was in 90s.... they had it mostly right vs ... the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.

A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering and phreaking payphones. It's exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it's largely based in reality.

But then you have scenes like this

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

let's not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Swordfish was always one of my favorites. Writing a worm using a custom compiler he wrote many years prior (to 2001) and had stored on a tape drive in some dusty basement.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You're saying that like the trope isn't alive and well to this day 😅

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Oh damn I should have read that properly 😂

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

A good exception to this rule is "Sneakers". Love that movie, and now I'm due for a rewatch.