Engineer Breaks Down Hollywood Programming Scenes

[@ArtlantisDE]

"start counterstrike" is quiet accurate as a software engineer. I do that daily at work

[@KevinArellano]

So you use Tails and just shutdown? 😆

[@scruffygaming627]

You play counter strike at work? nice :)

[@Pyth0g]

😂 that's funny

[@gosnooky]

My personal favorite HollywoodOS tropes: 1) Decrypting a password one character at a time 2) Text dumping to the screen *always* elicits that sound 3) Text is always displayed in ALL CAPS using a computer-styled font 4) If a file is deleted from a server, it also disappears on the user's screen 5) When a "programmer" refers to something as "computer code" 6) Source code is HTML

[@joecommenter1332]

Additional favorites of mine: - passwords can be guessed by researching the account holders life... ex The password is the name of the account holder's deceased daughter who died tragically in a pool accident - image resolution is infinite. If the image is fuzzy, just zoom in some more - there is a global database that can instantly retrieve any piece information... and it's available for domestic crime investigation "query for all pizza orders that asked for anchovies between 6-10pm over the past week in downtown LA by tall brunette white men"

[@RG-si1qz]

😂😂😂😂😂 Launch a cybernuke scene is definitely the most hilarious “hacking” scene ever made. Even funnier than the Swordfish nonsense lol.

[@magnets1000]

can you do a video tutorial on cybernukes?

[@cimkep8250]

8:00 looks like VHDL, used to program FPGAs for example so yeah...

[@janmachalek2357]

Downto :D

[@_Xyr]

I genuinely love Mr Robot, its one of the most underrated shows in history

[@Adaephonable]

How? It is literally critically acclaimed... I don't think you know what underrated means. It is literally very highly rated.

[@_Xyr]

@@Adaephonable I mean not many people know or talk about it

[@paulk314]

As some others have pointed out, the code at 7:51 is VHDL. When I saw it, I thought it looked oddly familiar... "entity", "port", "std_logic", the all caps... and then it hit me. All the RTL code at a company I used to work at years ago was in VHDL.

[@thefather8362]

The code in Swordfish is so advanced even Engineer Man doesn’t know what it is. 😂

[@loremipsum3147]

It is because it's not a programming language, it is hdl

[@kirtib]

Blueprint Coding (UE-1.337)

[@TroNPopz209]

That was real VHDL at 7:56 .... so technically not a "programming" language, but an HDL

[@FiveFishAudio]

In the movie Iron Eagle (movie about teenager flying an F-16) into enemy territory, the enemy is controlling their Surface-to-Air missile defense system using Lotus-1-2-3 or Visicalc (can't remember exactly, but basically a spreadsheet program ).

[@MishTheMash]

Swordfish @7:56 is using VHDL. I'm not surprised he didn't recognize it though as it's used in more hardware applications (i.e FPGA or ASIC)

[@Covarr]

The real question is, is that start counterstrike 1.6, source, or global offensive?

[@mrab4222]

The code in the centre window at 3:55 is Delphi and it's GUI and display related.

[@rxbugZz]

Since I’ve gotten more into coding i was wondering this, thanks for making this video

[@SnS-SpartaN]

*_What's about NCIS hacking scene?_*

[@MrAhsan99]

"Person of Interest" has these hacking scenes in almost every episode. I would love to see how this genius billionaire hacker is getting things done very easily all the time . They are usually dealing with some kinda AI system which get feeds from Govt. and identify bad people in society planning to do a violent crime.

[@duscraftphoto]

Hackers... Love that movie so much and some of it isn't pure fake garbage. Although, the mainframe and worm virus representation had me rolling, even as a kid, when I was first getting into computers and the world of "hacking". Great movie, but some funny stuff to pick through if you're bored ha ha. Loved the video and I think this would make a fun series.

[@I.____.....__...__]

- I assume the _Castle_ clip was a game or something because it doesn't make sense for Castle and Beckett to be trying to hack each other. 🤨 - The hacking "audition" scene in _Swordfish_ with Travolta holding a gun to Jackman's head and a girl blowing him while he tries to break into some system is notorious in computing circles. 😂

[@khendron]

If I remember correctly, there was a time in Season 8 when Beckett was doing her own investigation and not telling Castle to protect him from danger. Castle was figuring it out and trying to hack into her investigation. Something like that. Season 8 was kinda messy.

[@Gamertom]

Code @7:50 is VHDL

[@wumpusthehunted2628]

Legend has it that the code in Terminator (1) was 6502 assembler from the Apple Lisa.

[@zaid6527]

CyberNuke is the most funniest thing I have ever heard as a Software Engineer 😂

[@sameerplaynicals8790]

that's a pretty creative name for zip bombs

[@loovinrak]

Would like to see more videos of investigating scam texts / punishing the scammer

[@wtfdoiputhere]

i can't believe you didn't show that scene from NCIS i guess where the girl literally said "i'll make a gui in visual basic so we could track his IP address"

[@RobertCluck-kv8bt]

CSI: Cyber has some interesting points, although they base most of it on actual attack types, but some of the presentations of the attacks are interestedly funny. Especially the good code being green, and the evil code being red!

[@CaptLinuxfan]

Enjoyed C:/… vs C:\… in the last clip. Don’t even want to think how many GB that cyber nuke was 🤣

[@igorskyflyer]

I also saw some code in Arrow, written in C (as far as I remember), anyway, the code was supposed to hack the FBI's database and the code they showed does a string reversal 😂

[@datboi1861]

Reminds me of a movie I saw, Wolf Warrior. The code was in C and was supposed to hack into drones but the code they showed was a test score checker 😂😂😂

[@ΝίκοςΙστοσελίδα]

Arrow, the CW show? The same arrow that said "There are still teraflops of data to go through"?

[@tlwbob]

Swordfish looks like VHDL

[@knalliebar]

This is a cool format. Keep m coming. Didn't they run a ssh exploit in the final scene of the matrix reloaded?

[@komolunanole8697]

4:00 pretty sure the orange stuff in the center is some pascal variant

[@SirThane13]

I'm a little surprised you didn't take the chance to riff on the NCIS infamous "2 Hackers 1 Keyboard" scene. Classic "totally legit hollywood hacking" scene. u8qgehH3kEQ

[@hcjorgensen]

+1 👍

[@nat2r]

I love Antitrust, I was watching it last night lmao. It's not in the box...it's in the band.

[@garryadamson8507]

Not seen it in a while but Girl with a Dragon Tattoo had what looked like a legit SQL statement on screen for a split second. It was an early scene in a library I think. Like I said its been a while since I last watched it so memory is a bit hazy.

[@IvoPereira]

Love it! make more of these!

[@d1e6032]

There are some cool clips from Silicon Valley, like how Gilfoyle Hacks Jian Yang's Smart Fridge)

[@kalee2814]

What about "War Games" I love the 300 baud modem minus the voice. The graphics seemed pretty accurate for that time as well. I remember playing basic's "Gorillas" for tracing paths of thrown objects, and I think there was also a missile command game as well.

[@Aggnog]

Missed out on the best one of all, Blackhat (2015).

[@joeynessily]

Cool video.. be good if you make it a series! 👍

[@argiodsilvertongue3589]

I suspect a lot of hacking, as portrayed in movies, do not reveal any real hacking techniques for security reasons.

[@vedx]

Die hard 4 last seen when he defuse the bomb was epic too 🤣🤣

[@PotatoGodzilla]

You're telling me Kung Fury Hackerman hacking space time is fake. Damn!

[@MdShamimRahman]

Thought "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" will be reviewed. Mr. Robot and The Social Network did running inspiration on learning time. Apart from that David Fincher one of my favorite directors.

[@SebastianPerezG]

Mr Robot , actually was advised by several Hackers and that is why is so acurrate

[@MikeBramm]

It's always funny to watch movies and notice when they didn't have a technical advisor on the payroll.

[@randreas69]

You've missed out on the "structured" Basic code in Stranger Things. Everyone asked, did you pause the screen? Did I ever.

[@iespinosa31]

You should try blind spot the TV show

[@KellsCode]

As ridiculous as the Hugh Jackman scene is.. I can kinda relate

[@Radioaktivitaet]

"C:/Users/" start counterstrike lol I laughed for real

[@JesseUnderdog]

I was hoping Counter Strike would start and they would battle it out with the hacker on Dust II :(

[@Astinsan]

ruby is japanese I believe. upcase and downcase is probably a common ansi terms. possibly a localization thing.

[@loverboykimi]

Mr. Robot is most accurate. Highly recommended.

[@EngineerMan]

I agree, for sure the most accurate hacking movie to date.

[@ZacKoch]

@@EngineerMan show, but yeah

[@Concordeagle]

Jurassic Park "it's a Unix system, I know this"

[@ZacKoch]

Now the random "swordfish" makes sense 🤣 I was like 🤔 lolol

[@EngineerMan]

Lol, mystery solved.

[@Vancha112]

For the horrible cube programming thing, I guess the entire goal is more to convey the "hackers" progress by ways that regular people can understand, rather than it to be representative of hacking anything really.

[@sean63b]

Maybe he just wanted a fun graphic to show which of his files had errors?

[@Vancha112]

@@Selendeki yeah I think I liked that movie too :)

[@flipinfin]

Great video I kinda new social network commands was mostly legit. I knew swordfish was full of BS lmfao You should do another series and add hackers and darkweb

[@andycooper4485]

Jurassic Park's Unix System - the best by far.

[@window.location]

I liked that Swordfish hacking scene when I was kid, now I am cringing hard af. but its not bad as last one.

[@ScriptedByRemy]

You forgot the movie Hackers!!

[@thepap000]

Not the cyber nuke

[@Allen-by6ci]

This list is incomplete without Superman III

[@zawizarudo7295]

Why did he use a cybernuke when he could've used a cyber RPG 🤣

[@ToddNZMTB]

>start counterstrike would make a good t-shirt 😆

[@thefather8362]

Quick we are almost out of firewalls, spin up some more. 😂

[@SamGib]

Aren't we getting close to the world of Swordfish? Namely "codeless programming." I can't see why we can't make malware with it. Cubes or not, that's up to the UI designer though. 😂

[@binbashbuddy]

Swordfish is a good movie...except for the scenes involving computers.

[@r_davydov]

Paranoia: 1.0 (One Point O) (2004)

[@awesomecronk7183]

Well... we learned from this that movies are definitely made for people who do not know what they are looking at.

[@SpiderTalon]

it is not realistic unless there is an empty bottle of code red on the desk

[@MishTheMash]

@7:56 Hugh is using VHDL, although technically it is a made up language.....because all languages are made up.

[@Elias07070]

I'm in 😎⌨📺

[@pcolapaddler]

Movies and tv, with respect to computer code/programming/hacking, they are about as accurate as they are about just about most things. History, technology, medicine, firearms, explosives, forensics... just about anything portrayed in movies and tv is portrayed for entertainment first and accuracy is often much further down the list. To be fair to the writers, producers, etc, if many of these were portrayed accurately they would probably have a pretty narrow appeal and would be pretty boring to most consumers. It is still a bit humorous to watch from a somewhat more knowledgeable perspective.

[@steves9250]

Only Criminal Minds would use Visual Basic on a Linux system😮

[@oasisrocks]

NCIS hacking scene🤤

[@LoomisRex]

Swordfish is the worst. If it wasnt for Halle Berry i would not have watched it :)

[@non5309]

ожидал увидеть сериал кремниевая долина

[@Lazdinger]

>build thingy _…thingy built_ >attach other thingies to it _…thingies attached_ >HACK ENGINEER MAN!!1 _………clicked like_ Why no work! 😠

[@sourandbitter3062]

Algorhythm

[@Dreddx9]

When it is not enought to plug out modem, bruv laucht them Atom hacks :DD

[@guilherme5094]

Cyber Nuke🤣!

[@user-me8jl2xi6v]

I think you should stick to the educational videos. Similar to fireship

[@r5bc]

Please stick to the educational videos! They bring more good to the humankind and are more reflective of the talent you have.

[@GeorgeValkov]

5:23 the efficient way is *(uint32_t *)buf == *(uint32_t *)"GET "

[@BegbieUK]

No real hacker uses a 'worm generator tool' to create a worm or any other sort of malware.

[@Blizzerd84]

Really?? I just spent $100 on a worm generator tool, guess I'll never be a hacker mom :(