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by subinsebastien 1568 days ago
I want this to be part of a Hollywood movie. The protagonist is using his makeshift wifi setup to hack into a bank computer systems 43Km away from his location, and the bank people has no idea what is going on.
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Why? Im not interested to answer why our router is not capable of that, and there is no such router in the market. But on a serious note, some enterprise networks are unsecured enough, that you could probably login to root of their server from anywhere in the world.
Unless the bank has a 43km perimeter with trenches and guard dogs, why doesn't he just move closer?
Uhh, maybe a believable plotline like "Because the protagonist lives on a crumbling bridge with a military-trained dolphin encircled by cyborg psychopaths and Japanese megacorp military types while a highly infectious disease ravages remnant humanity and it's the end of the world?" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/
Hah! I only just watched that again a couple of weeks ago. With every re-watch I'm reminded of how terrible that movie is, and with all the passing of time between re-watches my memory of it continues to improve it until it seems worthy of another re-watch, and then I'm disappointed again.
Well, obviously.
Maybe the hacker is in a completely different country, where prosecution would be difficult.
I wonder what feats such a hacker could pull off once they hear about the internet.