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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: 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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