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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: 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.