Re:What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
by nottorp on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:24PM
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I believe Matrix 2 had an actual proper hacking scene. All command line, showing a script exploiting some ssh vulnerability that was actually real at the time they filmed.
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Re:What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
by Macha on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:18PM
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> But then, the film does take place in the future. Is Zalewski surprised to see unpatched SSH servers running in the year AD 2199? "It's not that uncommon for people to run the old distribution," he says. "I know we had a bunch of boxes that were unpatched for two years."
Zalewski here is a security analyst.
At least that's one thing that's improved, but I suppose this was the era of SQL injections in every second website.