[seanhunter]

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened:

   Recruiter: Hey there! <indicates the code> Do you know what this is?
   Colleague: Err, <looks…thinks for a bit>… It *looks* like some sort of network protocol
   Recruiter: <smug> No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

[fiedzia]

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

[cout]

Occasionally there are some real treats in those snippets. I remember being floored when Trinity exploited a real ssh v1 bug in Matrix Reloaded.

[hilariously]

My memory is probably faulty but didn't she use nmap too?

[quuxplusone]

Yep. (Discussed more than once on HN, which is why I know this link exists:)

https://nmap.org/movies/

[cout]

Yes.

[WalterBright]

The movie "Demon Seed" showed a DECsystem 10 command line. Hahaha.

[sunrunner]

I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints:

  ISBN = 9780199226559

This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.

[TACD]

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

[fiedzia]

Also Eddie Izzard shows how it really looks like: https://youtu.be/TKQzqwn-jIM?si=Ad_ZMhFr4As6H0lr

[WalterBright]

Well, at least movies no longer run the ka-chunka-ka-chunka ASR-33 teletype sounds when showing text on a screen.

[ikari_pl]

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

[sunrunner]

I paused the film to catch Lisbeth Salander, brilliant hacker and investigator, doing exactly this kind of complex query.

I guess the brilliant hacking was the bit you don’t see getting access to the super secure database in the first place?

[sureglymop]

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

[fiedzia]

I guess there might be Bobby 'insert into EMPLOYEES...' tables somewhere.

[ramon156]

Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry

[thunderbong]

Also hackers in movies never use a mouse!

[globnomulous]

Alng the same lines: movies and tv shows have taught me that there are no door knobs in the future.

[amiga386]

I beg to differ, here's Scotty using one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY

[Shorel]

He's a miraculous worker!

[bad_username]

I wish <smug></smug> was a real HTML tag

[kstrauser]

It's a semantic div tag, and it's spelled "<actually>".

[sscaryterry]

This is tongue in cheek, but those who can't do, teach, and those who can teach, recruit.

[rererereferred]

Once a recruiter asked me if I knew react, after answering yes they asked me if I knew javascript.