Mentalfloss:
One movie trope Hollywood just can’t seem to move past? The frantic hacker. Here’s how those scenes usually go: A character on the screen is shown banging away at a keyboard while a timer counts down and lines of code flash across their monitor. But how realistic is that? YouTuber elsafrickey compiled clips from various movies made between 1970 and 2000, and the resulting supercut shows that while technology has changed over the years, the misrepresentation of hacking has remained consistent.
I won’t lie – I’ve made several girlfriends and one wife nuts from yelling at the TV screen, “That’s not how it’s done!”
One of the strengths of the show “Mr. Robot” is that, supposedly, it gets this part right. Have you seen it, and do you agree?
It’s much more realistic than the majority of movies/TV. I think it still keeps much of the suspense going as well with that approach, but most producers and directors want big music, big on screen action, and lots of frantic motion from characters to keep the audience awake. overall, I give Mr. Robot a big thumbs up. And compared to the other hacker/computer shows out in the past year or so, it’s light years better than CSI:Cyber (which I wanted to like because I like the cast) with Scorpion coming next about halfway between CSI and it.
I’m not qualified to assess Mr Robot’s technical accuracy, but I can confirm that it is excellent writing about the issues you’ve named, not to mention the politics of unrestrained capitalism.
I just watched “Mission: Impossible” for the second time since seeing it in the theater, and was in stupefied awe of the monstrous miscasting of the very talented Ving Rhames as a hacker.
And now I can’t stop hearing him say “hackity-hack.”
Exhibit A: the gun-to-head-while-getting-a-blowjob, one-minute-to-hack-the-US-government-or-you-die scene from “Swordfish” (2001.)
You can imagine the gears turning in the producer’s mind: “We need to make hacking more extreme because this is a movie. We need to entertain people. Oh, and speaking of entertainment, we should get Halle Berry to take off her bikini top. Sure, give her $500K more for that one shot.”
The one real hack in the movie? The director. Dominic Sena.
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Obviously the prime attribute in hacking is to be a 80wpm typist.
yes – 80WPM, no errors – QWERTY or DIVORAK or Cyrillic! Those Ruskies!
Swordfish was AWESOME – if anything for THAT scene. I bet that hacker dude, Wolverine (when he was younger?) had all the CIA/NSA/FBI back door top secret ULTRAVIOLET passwords memories … though he looked a little rusty, until that blond gave him some!
At least there was a believe hook to bring him back to the “fold” and keep him there long enough. That hacker made some pretty bad life choices, though it would seem the Finish “Linus” made a few more mistakes 0.o
There are some good books on hacking … and if you ever watch Hot Fuzz – they make almost anything exciting – even writing notes in a “Police issue” paper note pad! Nothing like Bad Boys II… or is it? Could be for the greater good.