The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.
Trinity used NMAP and scanned for real known SSH vulnerabilities when hacking the power station in Matrix Reloaded.
The only hacking that ever felt plausible to me was in Mr. Robot.
I recently started rewatching Gundam Wing, and one of the computer screens with fast scrolling text was just scrolling through the Readme of either old Adobe Software or old Printer software (I don’t remember which).
Never forget the infamous NCIS co-op hacking on a keyboard scene.
Ncis episode Tim traced ThE mOsT dAnGeRoUs HaCkEr iN tHe WoRlD to an internal 192.168.something. I do not remember how it was resolved because I was laughing too hard.
(the whole two person keyboard thi g early in the series was an intentional gag, so it doesn’t count)I’m always so confused when I see a movie use scrolling C code in a terminal. Like where do they get it from?
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