Hacker Breaks Down 26 Hacking Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED

Hacker and security researcher Samy Kamkar takes a look at a variety of hacking scenes from popular media and examines their authenticity.
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[@maxximumb]

I love that you can almost hear him trying not to roll his eyes at some of the worst clips.

[@R3V1Z3]

6:58 when the eyes send their roll to the mouth .. "I don't know w-what we want to say about this."

[@teaguejelinek4038]

16:00 He's trying to not laugh

[@trinitypalmer8141]

I'm rolling mine at some of these lol 😂

[@mkseed9188]

Is being able to “hear” someone rolling eyes a thing?...

[@mopododo]

@@mkseed9188 No. But hearing someone trying not to.

[@emilygj6931]

"That's a pretty long password for someone who doesn't know the difference between a pdf and an executable" throwing some SHADE

[@wewoor]

It's very true but presumably it also opened something that looked like a document with instructions on how to make a "safer" password, which incidentally would help the hacker once that pattern shows up in the log. (my amateur take on it, your comment was the only one i saw about that clip)

[@misschief4283]

It could have been a PDF file with an embedded executable, since it is possible to embed an executable in a PDF file and launch it (it was done in 2010 without exploiting any vulnerabilities, with JS disabled), these days it mostly depends on the reader used to open the PDF but certainly PDF readers present other vulnerabilities, ebooks also present similar problems (for the same reason).

[@charlesmasclef1309]

Miss Chief It’s easily debunkable as you can see the file types under a Details listview on windows folders. Even if you spoof the file extension by changing the binary hexadecimals using slack space methods. It’s also common sense... If your company has been hacked and it’s the panic in the inside because there are hackers who took employees identities, any brain with a IQ of +10 should be suspicious when receiving that kind of emails.

[@herauthon]

dont trust MIME or FILE ident trapdoor 101

[@charlesmasclef1309]

herauthon four Slack space is obvious when you read file type on windows explorer. MIME? That’s referring to the content type in a http response header, how is it related to what we’re discussing ? (Genuinely asking)

[@____________7035]

Guy: says one sentence Editor: so anyways here's a clip of the movie

[@jarrodsteve6104]

The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@RAPTOR-zo7gt]

@@jarrodsteve6104 u literally just copy and pasted a top comment. Child

[@TFDUDE123]

@@RAPTOR-zo7gt The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@Co-uy4mi]

@@TFDUDE123 lmao

[@WiloPolis03]

@@TFDUDE123 The editor is doing a great disservice to what the guy is talking about.

[@stacker7110]

Gotta respect his demeanor. He didn't fall down laughing or called something ridiculous on its face even when it was incredibly absurd 😂

[@mattschemmer3091]

Well, except for NCIS. But that scene would break anybody.

[@afonsohipolito6983]

@@mattschemmer3091 And they didn't even showed the full scene... One guy later pulls the monitor cable and the "hack" stops smh

[@josephherron7671]

You mean like when Tim and Abby are both at the same keyboard at the same time? That might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on a screen in my life.

[@imho2278]

The man has the patience of a saint.

[@iriesiitia4787]

Its probably so cringy for him to watch these hacking scenes

[@jonah6300]

Petelo What is your pfp?

[@SianaGearz]

I don't think the word "cringy" is part of his vocabulary. "Cringeworthy" however most likely is.

[@rabbox4513]

@@jonah6300 deus ex

[@strider029]

Depends, pretty sure he still has some humors, and besides some of the clips are sort of realistic.

[@mmr201]

No, they're pretty realistic. *Adds a gigabyte of ram*

[@saieelprabhu2581]

Lol he's not a hacker. 1. He's not wearing a hoodie 2. He's not wearing a hacker mask

[@pewdiepiesubbots4603]

@@ceon8653 r/woooosh You don't really get the joke do you?

[@jokerbatman101]

@@ceon8653 what was the joke?

[@apullcan]

@@jokerbatman101 I think the joke is you're... an idiot? I'm not gonna lie, I have no idea what his joke was.

[@seltzerise]

any woooosh has been neutralized. we do not have enough information to deem this individual infact, wooooshed. -Mr. Woooosh

[@ziratik7794]

Na he not a hacker if not wearing a hoodie and not typing random stuff really fast

[@tldoesntlikebread]

Somebody must've hacked into this video, he keeps freezing and the hacker keeps bringing up movie lines.

[@marekkrakovsky4187]

He did.

[@Jzombi301]

they do that in all these WIRED vids

[@horrendouscauldronofsalt7111]

The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@pumblegrump]

@stretch The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@1R4MgMYl7a]

@stretch The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@niklas5336]

Mr. Robot is so much more realistic than any other clip shown it's not even a comparison. As a programmer, that show was an absolute treat to watch. Literally every single time they showed a computer screen it was showing real, existing tools.

[@eshuapoorv7188]

Whoever's idea it was to keep interrupting the genius with the movie lines in between should get fired.

[@JITCompilation]

I second this

[@sammanesh1]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed 🙄

[@Felipe-vw7qz]

I third this

[@magician182]

@@sammanesh1 omfg i thought i was the only one who notices that. it was just so blended in the video. it was so difficult for me notice

[@0xssff]

I second this

[@icewater7586]

I just love how he starts watching every hacking scene with a smile and then it slowly fades away

[@gothicherie6691]

Some of them his face at the end of the clip is literally just like “omg wtf is this”

[@asutoshrath8890]

he seemed pretty pleased talking about mr robot ngl

[@Anto-xh5vn]

@@asutoshrath8890 because that was the most accurate showcase

[@reezlaw]

Reminds me of myself when I watch this kind of thing

[@Muralikrishna99]

😀

[@jrstech6017]

Hackers in Movies be like Pressing Random keys for five seconds and then "Hey,I have access to the government databases"

[@gothicherie6691]

Or drag/open close windows super fast and yell IM GETTING HACKED!!

[@ugolattanzio9152]

"I'm in."

[@omo.tstarboy3690]

@@ugolattanzio9152 in where?

[@ugolattanzio9152]

@@omo.tstarboy3690 joe mama

[@blxxne5798]

i learned barely any html and decided to trick my friends and convince them i am “hacking” so i tricked them, they reported me to the principal and the principal explained that it was html code and it cannot hack anything

[@svenhe2541]

Here is the Full List with TC // Swordfish 0:16, The Italian Job 0:53, Chuck 1:38, Skyfall 2:29, Hackers 3:27, Wargames 4:36, Ton Legacy 5:22, Mr. Robot 6:05, NCIS 6:56, Untraceable 7:16, CSY.Cyber 8:19, The Net 9:04, Castle 9:57, The Matrix Reloaded 10:51, IRON MAN2 11:54, Weird Science 12:33, Live Free or Die hard 13:21, Snowden 13:51, The Social Network 14:24, Transformers 15:11, Under Siege 2 15:55, Blackhat 16:24, Avengers Age of Ultra 17:19, Criminal Minds 18:12, Sneakers 19:26, Algorithm 20:08, Conclusion 20:55 Also nice as watchlist for many nice evenings with potato-chips.

[@rnomromro6715]

Thx

[@southparkcrazyfan]

thanks :)

[@user-vf9to2it8g]

Soccer is the number 1 and most important sport on Planet Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Every nation on Earth loves soccer. American football is only popular in the USA. Soccer will be the most popular sport in the USA by 2050 dgbk

[@svenhe2541]

@@user-vf9to2it8g Soccer is monetary economy - and it’s only this what is connected to soccer. Soccer is not sport. Otherwise people would not watch - but play themselves.

[@svenhe2541]

@@user-vf9to2it8g this is not about Soccer Here. Subject is different, maybe you missunderstood, or there is a failure in selecting Video

[@thaliakennedy8734]

Mr. Robot being the most accurate clip as it should be

[@Alptraumification]

I don't believe that any movie or show could be more accurate or realistic than Mr. Robot.

[@rijallconnie]

Mr robot is on another level of movie hacking.. is beyond..

[@EpicRobloxTomboy]

Literally the only reason I watched.

[@Nuvendil]

@@Alptraumification Sneakers is actually extremely accurate with regards to old school hacking. Even the theoretical plot mcguffin is very much a real in the sense it is being researched even now and may one day be an actual thing.

[@DaviRoutner]

fsociety.py does exist.

[@ruadhrio2037]

This guy is what you call a white hat hacker. He tests security systems for people and companies and he helps adjust their flaws. Note: this comment was for the idiots I saw in this comment section who thought they brought a criminal on to youtube

[@michaeljohnson7465]

KZbinrs really need to account for their viewer-base. The younger, the more likely they are to not know what a white hat is. Though, they probably knew that, and wanted to attract people to a black hat. Which isn't actually a black hat. Unless he is, but there's quite a level of unlikely-hood there.

[@badmouserising9859]

Usually Indians are obsessed with the term, it's just lolz

[@michaeljohnson7465]

@Sean Mondout I do agree with you, we have a world of information at our fingertips. Few people exploit that. We all should be.

[@juliakayaqueen8080]

He is a criminal though, he actually hacked MySpace to let everyone's pages say I love samy through JavaScript code. He was charged and he couldn't touch a computer for years

[@ruadhrio2037]

@@juliakayaqueen8080 That's how many white hat hackers are contacted by companies and the government. They contact them while they are in jail and they offer them a job testing security.

[@zenmalik6216]

Mr. Robot has the most realistic depiction of hacking. *_Period_* And it's an amazing show you can watch even if you're not a tech-savvy type of a person.

[@TheManOfTomorrow]

*Mr. Robot* shows the most realistic, accurate and the best hacking ever shown in all of movies, series or whatever.

[@nenadpopov3601]

Yeah cause the last movie about hacking was made in the '90s.

[@LuisSierra42]

@@nenadpopov3601 What about Live Free or Die Hard?

[@OramiIT]

I'll argue the resident evil series when they are hacking the firewall is a real exploit on that hardware - the output is even boarder line legit (they added some stuff) - and the opening is later patched (which is something we would see)

[@diobrando6961]

Mr Robot is really underrated

[@obama7792]

hacker in movie: _turn on computer_ sammy: this is actually pretty realistic, because you do need to turn on your computer in order to hack other computer

[@alexzurp7739]

or do you??

[@Mr.Heller]

@@alexzurp7739 Well, I can install Kali on my smartphone, so no, you don't.

[@alexzurp7739]

@@Mr.Heller my man :D

[@irwNd2]

@@Mr.Heller smartphone and "computer" are the same these days. Smartphone is a computer. So yes you do. Lmao

[@liveandletlive2894]

Wtf dude seriously, have some respect.

[@aquate9637]

The guy : says something The 12 year old editor: we can't have that

[@arnav4253]

lol

[@RadicalAkira]

Man. Hahahahhaa NCIS hahahahaha

[@sovereignboss1841]

* unborn old editor

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Literally! Why are they mad they don't understand?

[@ranch_man]

@@user-vf9to2it8g American football is played in Canada, Mexico, Japan, and various countries in Europe, all of which have professional leagues, and Great Britain has one in the form of BAFA, which has 70 teams.

[@alvinmwangi]

I want this dude to explain everything! His thoughts are just so well organised, not a wasted word lol.

[@yogesh-singh]

He tried his best for not insulting those scenes by not saying complete truth about them😂😂😂😂😂

[@mariustrelea5132]

Yeah for all of them , buy not about Me robot. Mr robot is only movie about hacking that is 100% realistic

[@mariustrelea5132]

@@Itsaaryan1 ok

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

deadass

[@CFXThoomZ]

This video is perfect. The guy does not try to be funny or something. He is just himself and calmly explaining. I love this content

[@Maheshrpsharma]

YEP

[@Maheshrpsharma]

@Black Rod wow nice & strong words

[@Maheshrpsharma]

@Luc 100 upon 100

[@AeneasGemini]

I find it a little dull, but then again I'm not a hacking expert and part of the fun is usually people's reactions

[@ReazerDev]

There's one big thing right at the beginning. He says console, but the image shown is a text editor with HTML in it. That's a huge difference

[@Razielezu1]

You should ask an astronomer to break down space movies.

[@SorchaSublime]

I'm fairlynsure Neil De grasse Tyson would be game

[@SorchaSublime]

@Black Rod he has his own show doesnt he? Idk but regardless of whether or not he's done it before it still feels like something he would be willing to do

[@amberb8629]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmfVeXukdqeiipo

[@KremitDeFrog]

@@SorchaSublime Neil deGrasse Tyson has done some movies, but because so many people would rather express their opinions about wanting to simply enjoy the movie rather than consider that others might enjoy Tyson's breakdown.. he's not big on doing them any more..

[@SorchaSublime]

@@KremitDeFrog True but considering that then audience for this channel is primarily people who want the breakdowns anyway he may be inclined to do so for that pre made audience.

[@MhxAir]

"I need some help! I can't keep up with the hacker!" "I have an idea." **Plugs in a second mouse**

[@jarrodsteve6104]

NCIS clip be like: "I'm getting hacked" *guy steps in because girl wasn't pressing random button fast enough.

[@neco5740]

Your comment is directly under the comment you copied, how ironic

[@patheddles4004]

Two people typing on the same keyboard at the same time. Definitely realistic.

[@babybirdhome]

@@neco5740 It’s not ironic. Both commenters were typing on the same keyboard at the same time because neither of them was making the comment fast enough.

[@larapalma3744]

Lol yes

[@crazypomp927]

The worst part of that NCIS clip is two people sharing one keyboard simultaneously typing on half the keyboard each.

[@scottmcintyre2809]

And they didn't have him react to the most accurate part of the scene: where the guy who knows nothing about technology stops the hacker by unplugging the computer. lol

[@USSR413]

😂😂😂

[@ninedaysjane2466]

NCIS is so cringe.

[@nathanvangoor4979]

I could imagine one of the two pressing alt, ctrl or shift when needed It would be awesome if people actually managed to speed up typing that way

[@baxlug7078]

hahahahahaha

[@ymmuh]

00:37 'A more accurate interface would be a console or terminal' *shows html code*

[@Animania31]

😂😂😂😂

[@beinyourguard]

I MEAN, SERIOUSLY. LMAOOOOOOOO

[@RaynMao]

i do a lot of hack, the hack with html is very enjoyable

[@_guru]

You can hack nasa with it

[@willisdagrillis]

could just be a terminal text editor

[@exup250]

"Hackers" is still my favourite movie. I never liked the visuals (I was a script kiddie) when I was younger, but found out years later when it was finally released on DVD, that the visuals were meant to show how a hacker can easily visualise everything. In particular, the final hack scene with the building style representing file servers, is basically they can just walk through like a library and find/take what they want easily. I think it was a nice touch on the BS required for hollywood, but true to the nature.

[@henrypowell3496]

so what are you now? CSE at NSA?

[@ragingpixel0815]

also their Chatrooms and Clients were an adapt to what later would be ICQ/MSN as p2p DM service. they just stipulated that everything was in an overall dark net IRC and ppl could just DM you through your handle. its a big problem when people with too much technical expertise try to explain something bc they lack Imagination

[@Smqll_Fry]

When i hear "A gigabyte of ram should to the trick" i feel like ive experienced the 5 stages of grief 7 times.

[@TheHatedOne]

The editor is doing a great disservice to what this guy is talking about.

[@ajmomoho]

These videos typically have great editing, what's different this time?

[@vineconlalluvia]

I agree with you, watched only til 1:29, can't stand it.

[@anthonythe5336]

Young ADV if u were a hacker like me u would understand

[@sleepysartorialist]

The Hated One Yeah, the interruption is annoying

[@Whovian1029]

Yeah, the constant interruptions with clips are incredibly annoying. They do that in all of these Technique videos and they need to stop.

[@bloojkl4520]

I like that he wasn't too harsh or arrogant about the unrealistic clips

[@SheepDog-hj4jx]

This man is like humbleness personified, I like him 😁

[@slimshady1006]

No he is trying to keep it simple and understandable for the public and people who aren't experts at hacking

[@fartkerson]

@@slimshady1006 Will the fake slim shady please sit down.

[@Wand422]

I mean, he shut down the "gigabyte of Ram" mid hack scene so graciously. Really strong will that took I'm sure. :P

[@YTD07]

And if he was critical? That's the point of this video lol

[@thetruegoldenknight]

6:25 has got to be one of my favorite parts. And the whole MR. ROBOT thing for that matter. "He's the head of IT. And he's also an idiot." "The hospitals run their systems on Windows 98" then expert says, "Which is actually pretty accurate." That is both funny and terrifying at the same time.

[@JRK_RIDES]

His face is like the face parents make when they see their kids trying to walk for the first time. It's a cute attempt.

[@sapainca6187]

“Gigabyte of ram should do the trick” I’m deceased.

[@meatychode123lastname5]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHecd4Jugat-aqs

[@B1G_MO3]

Lmao

[@Refuse2Lose33]

Yes, more ram is needed downloadmoreram.com/. Only then you'll be able to play Crysis

[@ignatz14]

@@Refuse2Lose33 Construct additional RAM

[@FineStack]

What? Why don't you download more RAMs?

[@celestiaXX]

My dad is a IT and he goes nuts over "hacking" scenes. I love it.

[@nerze3157]

@ChoppedBlade Cybersecurity experts ARE IT people. But yeah, there are many different types of "IT people". They still often have a more clear picture of what "Hacking" is like than most people, even if it's not their specialty.

[@nerze3157]

@ChoppedBlade So... 1) How do you know he's talking about those kind of IT people and 2) Those who you are describing are the college students job levels, who have no interest in IT. If IT support is your career, you're definitely going to learn how it works.

[@andinaufal0608]

ChoppedBlade And no theyre not stupid, any job that has any relevance to IT, means that they have to had at least a course or a class in computer science of sorts and me being a computer science student myself, i wouldnt say it is for stupid people, computer science is actually pretty difficult because theres so much to it, engineering, maths, economy and so on

[@nerze3157]

@ChoppedBlade Nah you're just saying nonsense

[@quelorepario]

6:25 "He is the IT department, and he is also an idiot" - _Mr Robot channeling the sentiment of the whole infosec community._

[@eseoraka]

Anyone who needs to create a hacking scene, should be talking to this guy. He comes across as very knowledgeable on the subject, naturally Intelligent, yet not arrogant but nice and sincere . Thumbs up.,

[@promitchatterjee8848]

This guy looks so happy and excited when the movie clips come in....it seems that he too enjoys it very much

[@andreasl.elexander7445]

love his smile when the hacking is inaccurate x)

[@gameguild2396]

Never had I seen such a subtle yet powerful depiction of the word "wow" on someones face

[@kimjancok]

as a programmer myself, it's been a hard time to see movies with hacking scenes without cringing

[@Captain__Obvious]

11:08 "a fictitious tool" correction: the movie actually used a very real SSH vulnerability (CVE-2001-0144) and sshnuke is just a name they chose for their exploit implementation

[@sciencaholic]

Wired, you're showing a text editor when he's talking about a terminal

[@raula.8881]

Exactly my thought 😂

[@NYLazyme]

Probably because the editor didn't know the difference

[@nightmare1821]

With html lol

[@pilarf]

HAAHAHA IKR, IS VERY INSULTING.

[@oklomsy9595]

To be honest though, they could be running nano in a terminal.

[@factsunpopular202]

When he laughs you know it’s not even close to a realistic scenario 🤦‍♂️

[@ganipra7402]

The most Realistic is NCIS 6:56

[@fudes587]

@@ganipra7402 the most realistic is mr robot ;)

[@grammarnazi1868]

@@fudes587 I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

@@ganipra7402 Two people using the same keyboard is gawd tier hacker

[@pablo199014]

"A most efficient way it would be a terminal" - Editor shows some HTML

[@AToneForOurSins]

I love Mr. Robot for its realism in EVERYTHING.

[@roxannerobes]

"I don't know what to say to this. It's too much. Stop the pop-ups." HAHAHAH

[@Rumpael]

*sad internet explorer noises*

[@nna2354]

You don’t have to put a clip relating to what he says after every sentence

[@flyonthewall879]

This made me laugh i appreciate it

[@randompanperson8061]

Oh my god right?

[@caseylocke4474]

Drove me CRAZY.

[@yaboytroy357]

Wired does this a lot, but they got way too carried away with this one

[@careful_mozzumite]

Sorry i wont do it again :(

[@taitano12]

Hackers is one of my all-time favorite movies. However, when combined with the fact that I wasn't feeling well at the time, the simultaneous and overlapping of accuracy and inaccuracy once gave me a nosebleed. Seriously. The accurate hacking is represented by some of the wildest and most potentially misleading visuals I have ever seen. Spending a couple hours rummaging through databases for a file is shown by flying through a virtual city. Sure, the cool factor is off the charts, and it well represents the thrill, but it just perpetuates the "computers are magic" attitude Hollywood is only now just kinda sorta getting over. And that goes for most of the scenes of actual hacking.

[@ervinm.5065]

Hollywood has to learn that with the correct atmosphere even realist hacking is cool. In Mr. Robot you could feel the tension building up while Elliot was writing lines of code and loading programs before getting caught

[@MaxVillela1]

He seemed so interested in Mr. Robot and then . . . . you showed NCIS to him. That's rude, man. 6:04

[@Kayjee17]

There was a lot of good stuff in Mr. Robot - but for drama purposes it was also pretty boring. It's much more exciting in real life, but what can you do about Hollywood?

[@kissyjimenez1364]

i"M gETtInG hAcKeD!!!!!

[@azulamazigh2789]

they have used some of Sam's tools in Mr Robot. like hotel room door hack.

[@biganddomestic3726]

Yo is that a video game?

[@GuessWho195]

@@biganddomestic3726 NO Tony wE'rE gEtTiNg hAcKeD

[@SUPERNOVASpodcast]

I just love when he smiles as a scene passes by. It's like "what were they thinking?"

[@adam.maqavoy]

@singleplayers I feel the same

[@danbahadurgurung8593]

directors are stupid in respect to computers

[@willitpancake6708]

ikr,,, his reaction every scene.

[@sutty101]

Actually I got the feeling that he smiled at Hackers as its cheezy fun and Wargames because he is about the right age that the movie might have been a influence on him as a kid. Just guessing that it might have been fond memories of the shows. That said.. what no Antitrust?

[@alkaPWN112]

I think its the i'm dying inside type of smile

[@rohitchaoji]

"What is that a video game?" "No we're getting HACKED" was one of the funniest lines in this

[@addy9970]

I love how they didn't even bother changing the text in the html code. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet adipiscing elit 😂

[@delphiniox6830]

The editing is giving me anxiety like Jesus stop interrupting the person that is being interviewed🚫😂

[@mikexxxmilly]

Delphiniox it’s so bad

[@eltonandrade8322]

100% agree

[@smwatertasteslikewater]

Agreed And love the profile pic🥺 Is that Hyungwon?

[@delphiniox6830]

@@smwatertasteslikewater yesss it is hyungwon he is my ult❤️❤️

[@TabithaHolland_]

this series is really cool but for the love of god sTOP INTERRUPTING THE PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED WITH THOSE STUPID CLIPS EVERY FIVE SECONDS THEY ADD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 90% OF THE TIME

[@schrimply5980]

T H A N K Y O U

[@nona4536]

100%

[@WAZZUPwithDanMan]

I know the editing is some of the most obnoxious I’ve seen

[@jorischkovich]

thank you

[@aidenjenkins9488]

I agree, but if you pay attention to what is being said in the movie clips, it's really funny most of the time. It's almost like the characters are having a conversation with this guy. But yeah, it is super annoying.

[@MrsAnnThropy]

the evaluation on tony starks “phone hacking” holds a special place in my heart sincerely, someone who reveled in the moments where we would meme the teacher who couldn’t figure out how the projector worked in class before 2016

[@Drakonus_]

I can tell that he's trying so hard not to laugh at most of the scenes.

[@kevsss88]

Oh yeah, my favorite programming language: 3D forms

[@bastardowl]

I only hack into corporate servers using Unreal Engine 4.

[@78_mary31]

I hack my moms cupboard for clothes

[@SarenArielle]

😂😂😂

[@syn7027]

I prefer dungeon crawling like yugioh courtesy of SETO KAIBA

[@stefankrautz9048]

its a movie after all. You cannot just show somebody in a room looking at text for 80 min. runtime :D

[@superpantman]

This guy is extremely knowledgeable and Wired should really stop with the 'funny' little edits during his explanations

[@gagnorblu]

The only thing I'd split hairs over was the Tron:Legacy bit, but that's more or less an argument over whether exploiting a physical system counts as social engineering. It's definitely part of hacking, otherwise DEF CON wouldn't do lockpicking contests. I'd put that on the editor though, seeing as including something like that would be like me trying to explain why network engineers will argue over what layers are actually responsible for the issues they resolve on the job.

[@MrSlowestD16]

Yeah, a large part of pen testing is physical access, it's a perfectly normal attack vector; so while not in front of a computer, it's definitely "hacking" in the more general type. There's a good # of pen testing ted talks on YT where they talk about physical access they've gained in the past via social hacking, lock picking, etc., which some may not consider 'hacking' at first glance. Very interesting stuff.

[@digitalutopia1]

Right. Like showing HTML when he's talking about a terminal/console.

[@Nautilus1972]

I'm a programmer, he displayed very basic knowledge of programming.

[@LabGecko]

@@Nautilus1972 Were you watching what he was commenting on? He only _needed_ a very basic knowledge of programming to describe that crap. Besides, Wired probably told him to keep it to layman's speak as much as possible.

[@bojyoohoo]

12:53 The graphics are too intense!

[@brendanlawrence3624]

You missed the best part about the NCIS scene... Gibbs unplugging the whole computer and everything magically fixing itself!

[@mcpherson1222]

Or the one where he shoots the computer screen to stop a hack leaving the computer completely untouched

[@ron4212]

"...would be a terminal" *shows HTML in a text editor*

[@tomastrain1898]

Ron lol right😂😂

[@KSals]

I caught the same thing while watching it. I'm no hacker, but come on Wired. LOL

[@MuhdiskandarDavlinfelix]

I know.

[@MahaH97]

rightttt😂😂😂

[@arkadiuszkawak6379]

What minute?

[@jojomakes]

The idea that in real life, many traffic lights are controlled over the internet and some with no real password requirements is absurdly unsettling.

[@thomascrown3600]

The thing that boggles my mind is how does cable have a channel in which we can see what is going on by cameras placed in certain areas.

[@zmast333]

Actually, messing up with traffic lights is likely not very realistic. I remember seeing a picture of a traffic lights controller and there was an absurd amount of hardware for just a few lights. Some of that hardware was for remote access, fair enough. But it turns out that, due to the danger of those lights misbehaving, there's like a second computer which checks the main one is operating correctly, ie. making sure that there is no green light on both ways, minimum times are met, etc. So, even if someone were to take control of the main computer, I doubt they would be able to cause any accident. I don't have a direct experience with this kind of system, but having redundancy and cross-checking computers is common practice in critical systems.

[@silentlamb21]

unfun fact. There exist insulin pumps and pacemakers in peoples bodies that can be remotely accessed for convenience - which can ofc also be hacked and subsequently be used for very unhealthy instructions.

[@quinnmarchese6313]

im surprised he didnt talk more about live free or die hard, that movie shows a lot of real world infrastructure that can easily be hacked into.

[@lorenlloydpingal3140]

Traffic lights in the phillipines are hacked and they party

[@cuttlefishn.w.2705]

I was hoping he was gonna do more Mr. Robot stuff. Always wondered why they didn't just unplug the routers as soon as AllSafe realized they were getting DDOS'd. Talking about episode 1.

[@rickreeves4004]

I thought the same thing but then they wouldn't have a show anymore

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@rickreeves4004Allsafe wasn't where the servers were hosted. They also werent being ddosed, it was a root kit that would crash the servers every time they booted. Allsafe had no immediate access to the hardware to unplug the routers and their attempts to SSH in were blocked.

[@Alkaris]

One tool worth mentioning that was used in The Matrix was the use of Nmap, which is a tool designed to sniff ports and fingerprint the OS it detects, obviously for the purpose for the movie they masked it under a different name. The CLI elements of what they showed is very Nmap-like, since it's a tool that can function as both GUI and CLI. I will say however that OS Fingerprinting with Nmap is very poor and is often very inaccurate, since it's unable to properly identify the OS and the version a system is currently running. Scanning against a Linux machine will often yield results like you're running Linux with 2.6.3 kernel as some generic Linux OS like an embedded system like RedHat or some other, when in reality you are really running Linux with 5.6.7 kernel or greater with lets say Ubuntu or Arch Linux.

[@titoli1]

so what tool would you recommend for os fingerprinting?

[@greentea1396]

hackers in movies: **smack their keyboard for 0.2 seconds** the hacker; *im in*

[@swiatlowiekuiste]

Plus some aggressive big beat music in the background

[@jaidynhalling2162]

@@swiatlowiekuiste dont forget the 3 pages of random text

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

And the popups

[@claytonwade3570]

HACKERMAN

[@ashtonoates4798]

I really wish they hadn't kept interrupting him with this little 2 second clips that had absolutely nothing to do with what he was saying every 30 seconds, that drove me crazy

[@blueplanetgreenheart]

I agree. jfc, I couldn’t even finish the video

[@imagzz4942]

I loved that part lol

[@antonxuiz]

I was looking for a comment saying they were nice, actually. I liked 'em

[@Dradgit]

They did that on purpose to quip and joke about the movies/tv shows they were depicting. If that's a bit annoying to some people, oh well, I thought it was a clever way to add to the narration.

[@stevethea5250]

FIRE THR EDITOR

[@gracegehrman2839]

I love how they say "hacker", not "former" hacker.

[@ayamemas]

i love the way he describing thing, commenting real act rather than make fun of the clips. true legend

[@wesleyberry4261]

"A more accurate interface would be a console or terminal" *WIRED shows HTML document*

[@Kngdmio]

Wesley Berry was literally gonna comment this, but knew somebody had to already.. 😂😂

[@mrnobody607]

Exactly my thought XD

[@mukilkrishnan]

lol I discovered this comment a little too late 😂

[@IQCrocsx]

AHAH I suddenly stop too and went straight to the comment xD

[@Xannah]

Omg I know literally nothing about coding except HTML and this confused me so much. Like this is the only thing I could read. What else was completely false?

[@A_Salted_Fishe]

Mr Robot is probably the best show I have ever watched.

[@bharatmadho3742]

agree

[@katy4639]

It’s awesome.

[@paperblackwriter]

I watched first two seasons.. it gets too confusing... can't tell what's real what's not..

[@Wolskyyy]

I finished last week

[@phewwsaiyaakobessa320]

Yess

[@richardlucas7184]

My favorite Hack in a movie was when Jeff Goldblum's character in "Independence Day" quickly wrote a virus to infect the system on the Space Alien Mothership. Maybe there was a deleted scene where he examined the crashed-at-Roswell scout ship and found all the information that he needed.

[@orangecupcake]

That was a pretty long password for someone who can't tell the difference between a pdf and executable file 😂😂😂😂😂

[@rosiefay7283]

16:42 But the hacker disguised the exe as a PDF, so the OS made the victim think it was a PDF. The file is part innocent cover, part payload. Is that so unrealistic?

[@MacRobbSimpson]

@DotA TV Which, if it was Adobe Reader... There are a number of bugs in previous years that would allow code execution when opening a PDF in Adobe. That's part of the reason Firefox, Chrome and even Edge have their own (limited) PDF viewers now.

[@yanopam1435]

me: *reading this interaction* ...yes

[@ivanomatrisciano3828]

PDFs Can contain some javascript. In past years there have been multiple vulnerabilities that allowed a malicious script to drop a file on the system and then execute it

[@jordanlevitt1638]

Pretty sure there's a special character that can flip the characters after it, making anything possible really (eg. a file called 'annfdp.exe' can become 'annexe.pdf')

[@deldia]

I like the fact the guy is fair and not unnecessarily dismissive of some of the scenarios.

[@l1ln1ckl1l9]

For me only Mr. Robot and this Telephone hacking scene count as they show realistic UIs and not some crap like... Ugh... PSF

[@deldia]

@Jaguar Z he's dismissive where he needs to be. Obviously some of it is ridiculous.

[@MHassan1986]

That NCIS clip cracks me up. "What's that? a videogame?" lmfao

[@coldham77]

Hollywood always has some amazingly fast GUI's.

[@isortofyoutube]

God the pain in his face when he said "Alien Hacking" was phenomenal.

[@jayhm9393]

Samy: "So in this-" Editor: *FUNNY CLIP HERE* Samy: "clip" Editor: *FUNNY CLIP HERE* Samy: "the hacker is-" Editor: *FUNNY CLIP HERE*

[@skumsy9505]

i swear that shits so fuckin annoying

[@Chris_Cross]

That's over-exaggerating.

[@kideyebrow2633]

@@Chris_Cross around 6:40 it's pretty accurate

[@Chris_Cross]

@@kideyebrow2633 No it's not. Here, he gets interrupted three times before he even finished his sentence. At 6:40, he only gets interrupted once.

[@kideyebrow2633]

@@Chris_Cross look up what "around" means please

[@GameCarpenter]

The one thing I feel I should mention about the content, is that a lot of the terminology and technology were quite different in the 80s and early 90s than they are today. There are also a few cases here where you can give them the benefit of the doubt or not, depending on how you interpret what they are saying. For example, the history of PC Anywhere and interacting with remote GUIs.

[@Amazonforest11]

✨✨✨He is so calm , composed and cool . His personality really suits his profession really well . And the best part about this video is that he explained each and everything so delicately and neatly 👍

[@tonylewis8924]

I really enjoy these Technique Critique videos, the professionals are incredibly impressing, but I agree that WIRED should probably chill with editing. I understand they're aiming for it to be more entertaining, but it's ultimately disruptive. Keep the playbacks relevant, please.

[@chappie3642]

It's almost a meme actually

[@D3aThKult]

The guy at 4:00 wears sunglasses while in front of a pc... so, totally legit hacker, move on.

[@DirectedByEyaare]

You don't rock a pair of GUNNAR™S when you type? This is what people did before those existed

[@Mr-kr5yh]

Because of the screen not the keyboard, what idiot looks at the keyboard while typing

[@GregoryWiktor]

@@Mr-kr5yh Only the lamers and noobs.,

[@LabGecko]

Hey, some of those CRTs could give you a tan.

[@rock3tcatU233]

No hoodie = immediate DQ.

[@danielkbarton]

His glee in watching the NCIS clip: priceless.

[@nskumar6394]

Everybody see him laughing, but he is actually CRYING!😭😭

[@MyFukinBass]

He talks so calmly, Im at peace.

[@pascaldisho5411]

When I am looking through my friend's computer without him knowing Me: *I'm in*

[@nitrodan9881]

*HACC*

[@cosminturtureanu692]

When I'm alone with a girl for more than 2 minutes

[@3ll3llyyy]

im so happy he did mr. robot. rami malek and christian slater are two people everyone has seen at least once, but no one really pays attention to. theyre both amazing actors and the show is amazing.

[@datazard1004]

The one with the downloaded pdf file may be actually be very accurate. There are many already known vulnerabilities of software that reads pdfs that could get you remote access to a machine.

[@heauxkage5611]

STOP INTERRUPTING THE PERSON SPEAKING WITH UN-FUNNY PAUSES WIRED!!!!

[@ariesstudio7222]

Truuyy

[@bobtheblob1668]

this is why the video is 20 minutes long

[@regul8or71]

WIRED often does this in their Expert Analysis videos, presumably for the sake of humor. It’s quite annoying.

[@mattgeorge9541]

Keeping people watching longer makes their videos more popular

[@MrSpiky]

I think it's kind of funny, but they literally do it every half to two sentences

[@nathanprempeh4706]

Every Movie Hacker: You do realize its impossible to get into that system right?? Few minutes later "I'M IN" 😂💀

[@oerlikon20mm29]

More like seconds

[@lucasxathy9848]

Hahahahahaha lol

[@sacredsilence4471]

And I've got the nuke launch codes to North korea!

[@binyam1464]

So true😂

[@adityabhalekar3506]

@@sacredsilence4471 LMAO

[@cassieridley8147]

"That's a pretty long password for someone who doesn't know the difference between a pdf and an executable." Ooooooooo snap!!!

[@SoFlyIndustry]

Looks like so much effort to think of a simplified alternative visual to show hacking, either animating it or programming it.

[@entrxpic]

Alright here is 10kg of cocaine. Now edit this video.

[@TobeyMacTired]

Of course you're familiar with it I see.

[@renatoadrianpaiva2385]

@@TobeyMacTired he's not, video would've been much better on that

[@ventxo7969]

LMAO! True

[@lkvideos7181]

lmfaaaoooo

[@juanrendon3868]

I am a cocaine expert, and this comment is quite accurate

[@stefanjaro7213]

"A more accurate interface would be a console or terminal..." *Shows html* Come on, Wired.

[@Puyols37]

What's wrong with HTML? It is still code you can see in a terminal

[@dishantmishra3940]

@@Puyols37 Sublime Text != terminal

[@HarrisBeg]

@@Puyols37 HTML is not code

[@HarrisBeg]

@D not really... I don't consider a "formatting" style to be code but that depends on your definition of code. And seeing "code in terminal" doesn't even make sense... does he mean the output that the code produces?

[@mustko999]

Html is not code nor a programming language, its a markup language

[@nitroglitch45]

I wish they showed the part in hackers where he calls the security guard, pretends to be a worker, and overwhelms him with garhon to him get (if I'm remembering correctly) their modem IP. Phishing is such a real security threat and they explained it really well.

[@waliahmed6]

Laws of physics : exsist Hollywood: and I took that personally

[@456praveenubale5]

The guy is really great at breaking down the scenes and explaining the real deal. The editor tho😑

[@MajorAddiction]

A gigabyte of RAM should do the trick

[@flipnshifty]

that freeze frame at the end lmfao

[@mikechris2012g]

when he says something that i understand, i feel like a genius! "Windows 98"?... yeah, i remember that, of course!

[@Sora-tk1tv]

LOL

[@mr64-bit95]

Same

[@VirtuallyBoris]

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

[@joutakujo9773]

Mike Scott sadly same..

[@ngkn2008able]

He said: ... Binary... Me: hey, I know what binary mean, hehehe

[@mickgorro]

In case anyone's wondering, no, it's not "gooey", it's GUI, Graphical User Interface, that they mention around 19:20.

[@3XC4L1B3R]

It's actually really difficult sometimes to suspend disbelief when "hacking" is depicted so poorly in a movie... really spoils the experience.

[@ZintherZ]

samy kamkar discovered the flaws in visa cards, php and many more stuff. he is an internet legend

[@Zancb]

To discover flaws in PHP, all you have to do is try and write a PHP script.

[@ZintherZ]

can you do it? please don't make these rubbish replies

[@socialex]

Kinda cool I never made the connection there. He is a legend.

[@Poldovico]

@@ZintherZ It's a joke on how php is awful to use. Which in the newer versions is not so much the case thankfully

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Yeah, Wired shoulda put his name in the video title. I almost didn't watch, since I knew as a computer security professional, I wouldn't be learning anything, but if I'd known it was ma boy Samy, I would've been all over it. That being said, TV & movie hacking is usually so bad it inspires me to laugh wildly and/or groan horribly, but Samy is such an even-keeled and diplomatic guy that we kinda got robbed of an opportunity for vicarious unrealism pains here.

[@MrTigerlore]

Commenters keeps giving the video editor crap for his bad editing; but I don’t see what you guys are talking ab...... Oh. I mean, it’s not that ba.... Oh.

[@Skateobyou]

+Tiger H. Lore i honestly don't see it lmao the editing is fine.. he does that to add context as to what Samy is talking about/explaining

[@MajorAddiction]

meowww

[@giri1478]

+Tiger H. Lore - i think i was enjoying the sound effects in Matrix lol

[@pranav8532]

i know righ...

[@punk105]

Hahahahaha. So accurate Tiger