Hacking in the Movies Vs. Real Life - How-To Geek

[Edward Crosby]

Good stuff.

http://bit.ly/KdtQ9a

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[Luke Jaconetti]

Okay, that's freaking hilarious.

 

I was preparing a response in my mind about how hacking is portrayed in the very well done show Person Of Interest versus just about everything else, but this comic was just so funny I could hardly contain myself from laughing out loud here in the office.

 

Thanks Ed!

[Michael Bailey]

It forgot to mention annoying techno music, but otherwise funny.

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[Edward Crosby]

Hey, nothing wrong with techno, even though trance is the better choice of that genre.

Yeah. It always cracks me up when I watch one of these TV shows or movies that show a hacker hack into a computer in just a few minutes or seconds. I know nothing about hacking but I do know that it takes a lot, lot longer. And, it's not as easy as they make it look.

This comic strip is a closer example of how ones account or computer gets hacked.

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[Luke Jaconetti]

Ed, two shows I watch are on the absolute opposite ends of realism when it comes to hacking.

 

On Leverage, the team's hacker is Hardison, and he can essentially do magic.  With his equipment he can very easily make anything happen on a computer.  He is, for all intents and purposes, a wizard.  His rival is played by Wil Wheaton, and he too is a wizard who can do anything whenever he wants.

 

On Person of Interest, Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson from Lost!) does the hacking and it's a meticulous process.  He runs into pitfalls and dead ends, and when dealing with very high security systems, he sometimes makes no headway at all.  When he does get into systems, he can't perform "magic," he can only explore the data and get intelligence, useful or otherwise.  His rival, a hacker who goes by the handle "Root," (the gal who Fred on Angel!) was seen to essentially deny his attacks and turn back his attempts at breaking into a database when they went "head to head," while at the same time trying to backdoor into his own system. 

 

Even though Person Of Interest has a very high concept, essentially science-fiction concept at its core (that there is a supercomputer observing every move and every word of everyone in New York and thus is able to predict the likelihood of someone being involved in a violent crime), the way which the methodology is presented is much more realistic than on Leverage, which ostensibly has no fantastical elements (team of professional thieves pull cons and heists against morally dubious targets) but routinely uses technology as magic. 

 

Amazingly, they both work.  Person of Interest is a "heavy" show, with a lot of investigation, violence, and subplots.  Leverage is very much a "light" show, designed to be fun and clever above most everything else.

 

Just some food for thought.

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[James Peluso]

reminds a little of this:

http://youtu.be/Vxq9yj2pVWk

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[Edward Crosby]

That's pretty funny.

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