Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers?
by sircastor on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:22PM
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While most of these examples are spot on, I will argue the point of the Jurassic Park Hacking scene:
The 1992 world of computers and networks was much different than our world today. The author uses the analogy of familiarity with a browser and gaining access to a gmail account. I remember 1992. I remember the systems that didn't have lock screens, and didn't have log in passwords. Couple that with a theme park's computer system that's still being built and debugged.
I think it's totally rational that a kid who's familiar with a unix filesystem and a navigator could poke around a system until she found some security scripts.
I take much more issue with the "video feed" of the Dock with the worker Nedry was talking to - and the video playback bar on the bottom of the window.
The 1992 world of computers and networks was much different than our world today. The author uses the analogy of familiarity with a browser and gaining access to a gmail account. I remember 1992. I remember the systems that didn't have lock screens, and didn't have log in passwords. Couple that with a theme park's computer system that's still being built and debugged.
I think it's totally rational that a kid who's familiar with a unix filesystem and a navigator could poke around a system until she found some security scripts.
I take much more issue with the "video feed" of the Dock with the worker Nedry was talking to - and the video playback bar on the bottom of the window.