Hackers

Post #44,388 by drewk 7/3/02 3:22:25 PM Reply	Hackers It was on last night, and nothing much else was, so I figured, "why not?" The interesting thing -- aside from the fact that they portrayed hacking as a GUI activity, just like every movie that has had even one hacking scene -- was how much of the current climate they predicted. The security officer for a major corporation pointing to rogue hackers to deflect from his embezzlement scheme. Getting the Secret Service involved because it's a computer crime. The SS agent in charge being a media whore who loves telling the cameras how hackers are terrorists. The corporation giving the SS orders -- and the SS following them. No-knock raids to confiscate everything on the thinnest of probable cause. Really kind of disturbing how much they had right. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #44,430 by wharris2 7/3/02 9:22:05 PM Reply	Re: Hackers I haven't seen the movie, but there's a lot of stuff out there, from even before the Steve Jackson case. Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."
Post #44,496 by orion 7/4/02 9:26:52 PM Reply	GUI activity = Script Kiddies Most likely if it was GUI activity, they had a pre-made script that was run by the GUI to take advantage of an exploit? Sort of like "The Big Red Button" that broke NT security. :) Real easy to hack using someone else's program that they wrote with a GUI front end? How about "Indepenence Day" typing "Upload Virus" on an alien mainframe from a Powerbook to crash the alien mothership? Good thing the Alien mainframe spoke English and had bigger security holes than a MS-OS? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*

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