Tired of hollywood hackers. 7 monitors, 3d interface flying through cyberspace, typing at 200wpm with a gun to their head. Zero terminal windows. But how much RAM? Probably 64gb rgb for a sql query.
Actual competent hackers in film: go. I need a list. Hardware-accurate, plausible tools, no visual nonsense. My server room has 512gb and I still use htop. Where's that energy.
Mr robot. Terminal accurate. Linux desktop. No 3d nonsense. Simple is better
Also: sneakers, 1992. Social engineering > magic. The real hack was friendship
Can you check "the girl with the dragon tattoo" also lah, she use actual command line can, not just fancy graphic wkwkwk. And "blackhat" 2015 is slow-slow but got real exploit scene thank you. I forget the name of tools but look authentic lah, not like fake fake hacking. Thank you very much for making this thread sir, very helpful.
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Hey folks! Gonna throw in tinker tailor soldier spy[/I> — not a hacker film but the tradecraft is super stoked levels of accurate. No computers, just competence.
Also I heard about some indie thing where the consultant was actual pentester. Anyone got name? My bad if I'm misremembering.
Competence isn't tools, it's methodology. For what it's worth, the best "hacker" film for actual infosec is probably zero days, documentary. Stuxnet analysis, no protagonist, just forensic chain.
For narrative: ex machina gets social engineering right. The coding is window dressing. The real exploit is trust architecture.
SPF/DKIM/DMARC of film accuracy: most fail alignment.
Yeah nah mr robot is sweet as? The attention to detail is chur. Mate even has a raspberry pi in one episode? Proper kali tools, actual nmap output? Not just green text on black like every other film?
Mate I met someone at a lan who worked on it? Said they had actual consultants, not just some guy who installed limewire once? Yeah nah that's rare as?
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Sir I made film last year, small project, I was technical consultant. Made sure all terminal output is real, used actual metasploit console. No 3d flying thing sir. Director want to add but I say no thank you very much sir.
If you want I can do AMA about making hacker scene realistic. Thank you for opportunity sir
