[frisco]

How accurate was the jargon? When they talked about hacking, or were coding on screen, was it realistic?

[il]

It actually was pretty realistic. When he was talking about writing a shell script to wget images from Harvard facebooks, I smiled to myself a little.

[birken]

That part at the beginning was certainly realistic.

The part where there were 6 guys interviewing for facebook by taking a shot a minute "cracking SSL" or whatever it was surrounded by 30 screaming people was not realistic.

[neilk]

Yeah, it was Swordfish-esque. And they started so well. Too bad.

I guess the screenwriter just needed a "triumph" moment at that point in the script, something that the audience can share in other than some interns completing a programming assignment.

[chopsueyar]

"Welcome to Facebook."

Does he then send the other 5 inebriated guys home?

[trustfundbaby]

That was when I got sold on the movie.

You could see him fire up putty on his windows xp box and catch snippets of code as he ran perl & shell scripts to do exactly what he wanted.

[chopsueyar]

Do you consider that hacking?

[chopsueyar]

To clarify, I meant, in the context of the movie, where Zuckerberg is accused of hacking by the administration because he used wget.

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