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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 urza9814 on Monday January 19 2015, @05:44PM
Actually...a few years back when I was young and naive and running the Norton firewall thing (came with the system I think) whenever it detected an "attack" (Did I mention it was Norton? The "attacks" were never attacks...) it would give you the option to trace the location of the IP. And there was one instance where it traced it back to a specific floor of a specific building. Probably because it was a router owned by my ISP, most traces didn't give anywhere NEAR that level of detail...but still, depending on the system you're trying to trace, it may actually be possible.