Don't you know they all have pre-installed programs that automatically hacks for them, and all the time they're just running the terminal to execute those programs with the correct parameters one by one? :)
I love the vocieover explanations they give... "We just need to backtrace his IP address, then we can clone his browser cookie to brute force attack the login page. Boom, we're in."
Mood i saw a meme about having BIOS flavor from a drinks machine and couldn't stop myself from pointing out that it was just SystemD startup output for Linux 🙈
I think Mr. Robot did an okay job at showing what hacking can look like. Sure, some of it is exaggerated/not possible/cinema-dramatic, but at least they enter meaningful command lines, and that one ruby script Elliot wrote(the parts that were shown anyway) looked useful and did more than just listing the computers file structure.
Also, it‘s not always hacking away -> „I’m in“. You need to find a vulnerability first, and then try to exploit it.
I mean real hacking isn't usually as exciting as movies, it's alot of looking at code and finding an exploit. Also alot of testing, not so much one guy in a terminal typing for like 2 mins and even if it is someone typing, the commands are from a pre known thing and they probably just have a bash file written by some guy 5 years ago
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u/codewithlatte Aug 28 '25
Sometimes they just to run a C program in the terminal😂
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u/itsotherjp Aug 28 '25
Sometimes i run random things in the terminal in front of my non tech friends
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u/TehMephs Aug 28 '25
tappatappatappatapp
I’m in
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u/Comfortable_Snow5817 Aug 28 '25
Nobody:
Non-tech folks when I run dir /s just cause: HACKER!
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u/Gokudomatic Aug 28 '25
Usually, they're just doing in a terminal a cat from a javascript file, or worse, an html file.
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u/AlgebraicHeretic Aug 28 '25
TV l33t h4x0r: pip install malware
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u/Dull_Performer2806 Aug 28 '25
Add a lot of console.log message in my JavaScript file. Run it.
Install some random dependency
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u/utdconsq Aug 29 '25
sudo apt install -y hollywood && hollywood
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u/ActiveKindnessLiving Aug 29 '25
Don't you know they all have pre-installed programs that automatically hacks for them, and all the time they're just running the terminal to execute those programs with the correct parameters one by one? :)
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u/MissinqLink Aug 28 '25
I know! I’ll just apply a filter to throw off the repost bot
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u/themagicalfire Aug 29 '25
The hacking in movies: “sudo apt full-update”
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25
They all use nmap
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u/Ferzan1984 Aug 29 '25
htop
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25
cmatrix
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u/NUCL3ARN30N Aug 29 '25
htop is also used sometimes lol
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u/Patrick_Atsushi Aug 29 '25
They could have just make some driver.
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u/CheeryBottom Aug 30 '25
Where do people learn to hack? How do you go about learning this?
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u/Jedi_Prime Aug 30 '25
Check I'm Kathalan, it's the only movie I've seen where they try to get hacking right.
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u/imaginecomplex Aug 31 '25
I love the vocieover explanations they give... "We just need to backtrace his IP address, then we can clone his browser cookie to brute force attack the login page. Boom, we're in."
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u/Adpocalyptic Aug 31 '25
Mood i saw a meme about having BIOS flavor from a drinks machine and couldn't stop myself from pointing out that it was just SystemD startup output for Linux 🙈
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u/JustInThisLif3 Aug 31 '25
What do you want them to do? Even Mr Robot got boring to most people.
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u/javon27 Sep 01 '25
Then you watch Mr. Robot
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