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Most depictions of hacking and programming in movies are totally ridiculous. Even aside from the fact that you don't hack into a super-secure system you hadn't encountered before within 2 minutes.
The most commonly used trick in movies is to open up the command prompt and run some basic commands (I often see pings and traceroutes) to get lots of info on the screen. Sometimes they just output pure garbage on the screen, like what you get if you try to view a binary file as text. In reality, if you're looking to crack an executable, you'll probably be looking at its code in a hex editor / debugger but hex code isn't commonly shown on the big screen, neither is assembly or, in fact, any code in a real programming language. I enjoyed this link which lists a bunch of commonly seen computer inanities in movies/TV. |
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