ngl the net had some great hacking scenes tho
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Sonic Prime of all things had a hacking scene that consisted entirely of trying to guess a password. No technobabble, just straight up attempting to guess a password. It was refreshing.
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)
Most of the time it's just meaningless gibberish in my experience.
I liked how Star Trek: Discovery had a snippet of C code with a reference to Windows NT. I wonder if we'll still be on x86 in the 23rd century.
"The warp core is down!"
"Have you tried turning the power couplings off and on again?"
Having played Void Crew recently, which just launched into early access and therefore has a lot of bugs, it happens astonishingly often how turning a ship's system off and back on again - sometimes even the whole ship - "fixes" a bug (it's more of a workaround).
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With showoff 3d graphics
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I'm always so confused when I see a movie use scrolling C code in a terminal. Like where do they get it from?
Usually nmap