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The scene doesn’t include a keyboard. Or a computer mouse. But it shows why Michael Mann’s Blackhat may be the best hacker movie ever made.
For Parisa Tabriz, who sits at the center of the info-sec universe as the head of Google’s Chrome security team, it’s a Hollywood moment that rings remarkably true. “It’s not flashy, but it’s something that real criminals have tried—and highlights the fundamental security problems with foreign USB devices.”
Tabriz will also tell you that such accuracy—not to mention the subtlety of the scene with the coffee-stained papers—is unusual for a movie set in the world of information security. And she’s hardly alone in thinking so. Last week, Tabriz helped arrange an early screening of Blackhat in San Francisco for 200-odd security specialists from Google, Facebook, Apple, Tesla, Twitter, Square, Cisco, and other parts of Silicon Valley’s close-knit security community, and their response to the film was shockingly, well, positive.
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/blackhat-the-best-cyber-movie/
Did you find hacking accurately depicted in the movie ?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 18 2015, @05:00AM
*maybe*... lets wait and see if this 'positive' review is nothing more than a submit to a bunch of tech sites about 'how good it is' to get good reviews later on.
Wait and see. It smells like a joe job. But then I am feeling rather paranoid today for some reason.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 18 2015, @05:31AM
Paranoid... Sign of the times dude. Walk it off :-)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 18 2015, @05:55AM
Yeah, just look at all the hype [techdirt.com] about that TV show Scorpion and it is the most silly over-the-top portrayal of hackers I've ever seen. Just so dumb it is amazing that even actors with zero technical literacy can make it through an entire episode with a straight face. At least Poulsen has more credibility than the Scorpion guy, but his role in the Bradley Manning story is not flattering.
BTW, joe job [wikipedia.org] doesn't mean what you think it means.
(Score: 2) by hankwang on Sunday January 18 2015, @08:00AM
"see if this 'positive' review is nothing more than a submit to a bunch of tech sites about 'how good it is'"
In the case of Wired: the script writers consulted a Wired editor (Poulsen), so Wired isn't expected to be objective. Poulsen is probably contractually forbidden to say negative things, like "I argued forever with the writers that anyone with a clue would find this ridiculous, but they wouldn't listen and pushed that implausible plot device anyway"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 18 2015, @11:50AM
I've read the Wired article and seen other hype for this movie like interviews with the director.
Then the reviews came. [rottentomatoes.com]
Giving Thor dude a 15 minute course in Linux doesn't make a good movie. And the last thing we need is more cyberhype when our cyberpresident is considering more cyberbills to fight cyberterror while cybershitting on Aaron Swartz's dead meat avatar [eff.org].
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Sunday January 18 2015, @01:08PM
Looking at the reviews, I don't see any saying the hacker scenes are not authentic (which is all the article is about). They complain about a boring plot, bad character motives, bad filming … but the hacking depicted is nowhere criticised, as far as I see (I haven't read through all the contributions, though).
So what I gather from the article plus the reviews:
If you want to see a good film, better stay away. But if you are just interested in seeing realistic hacking scenes (and great gunfight scenes), this film is for you.
Maybe they should use it in security education. ;-)
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