[Gllug] not so great hacker/tech movies

[Salim Virani]

Office Space has the best Mac OS Classic / Win 3.1 / DOS combo OS
ever.  (Though it's so audacious I think they did it on purpose.  They
are, after all, copying the virus file onto a floppy disk so they can
hand it off to the guy who's going to plant it in the bank mainframe
to steal millions of fractions of pennies.)

Or the conversation in Hackers about someone's new P6 computer. Pretty
realistic until someone says, "RISC is good!"  Though I'm over
Angelina, I still want a BIOS that has a flaming skull logo at boot
up.

In Sneakers, there's a blind guy who can listen to signals coming
directly from an IC to isolate which parts do the decryption.  Yeah,
that was definitely a Diffie-Hellman key exchange, not an MD5 hash.
Diffie-Hellman alwasys sounds like Autechre.



On 10/5/07, Les Matthew <lesmcdm at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:13:03AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> >> I still rather the like the notion in "Independence Day" of downloading a
> >> virus onto an alien computer system in order to disable its force-field
> >> generator !!
> >
> > THat is only a problem because you still believe that the 60M lines of code
> > in MS Windows was written on this planet. The rest of the universe has it's
> > share of cr*p programmers as well! :-)
> >
>
> The other problem was that he did it using a Mac. ;)
>
>
> les...
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