Heffernan wrote:why is the epic movie hackers on there? from my understanding of 80s/90s hacking (yes im old) it really worked that way..
glad they didnt include Wargames..
But it didn't... There were not massive GUI interfaces or code that would display rabbits hopping across the screen. The only thing that movie depicted correctly was the abuse of pay phones and social engineering to gather information from hapless employees.
Most hacking done by even one of the "Greats" Kevin Mitnick admitted most of the information he received was by calling the company directly and just asking the person who picked up for their username and password because he worked in IT. Wargames did have more reliable hacking in it. A kid who runs through tons of phone numbers to find a mainframe and when seeing who wrote the software does research on him to try and brute force guess his password.
BTW is that a picture of Alloin lol?
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:10 pm
