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Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? by vanderZwan on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:22PM (#14931253)
> Jurassic Park – In the midst of a velociraptor attack, Ariana Richards sits down at a computer and says, “It’s a Unix system. I know this.” Then she somehow hacks the entire Jurassic Park security system in a matter of seconds and takes control of the automatic doors. This scene is filled with tension, but what she does is analogous to someone loading a browser on a Macbook and then saying, “It’s Safari. I know this,” and then going on to compromise someone’s Gmail account in a couple seconds.

Well if you put it like that it actually sounds somewhat plausible, since she was on that someone's computer. Most people I know leave their Gmail logged in.

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Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? by bitwize on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:24PM (#14931275)
I interpreted it as, she could probably recognize the directory structure in the visual tool as belonging to a Unix system, and from there guess that it responds to standard Unix commands. It would take a bit longer than is depicted, but she could probably cd into some interesting-looking directories from there and find the programs used to control the park's facilities.
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Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? by unsignedint on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:28PM (#14931952)
I don't think that scene was about hacking. They have already rebooted the system to wipe what Nedry has done (which, on its own, is a notion that is unrealistic) then it was just waiting to be reactivated by navigating to the right subsystems.
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Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? by mcguire on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:36PM (#14931397)
"... While most people troll this scene for its usage of 3D graphics on screen, she’s actually using a real 3D filesystem called FSN."

That's not a filesystem.

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Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? by TrevorJ on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:03PM (#14931717)
It is a file manager though.
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