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• • randomnoise

    Feb 4th 2009, 20:41

    "Well, for one thing, the ministry of defence makes it pretty hard to hack into its systems" Does it really? Then why are the US so keen to have Gary McKinnon extradited? He 'hacked' into US military systems by scanning for blank passwords It might seem like the implausible plot of a film, but in fact some US military systems really actually are that easy to hack into. in Wargames David has to do some research into thr programmer before he managed to get the password.

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  • Grasshopper

    Feb 5th 2009, 11:49

    Ah, but in Independence Day he can use USB to connect to the aliens - Universal serial bus - key's in the name, see? It's supected that the "Virus" he planted on their computers was actually Windows ME...

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  • Mart15

    Feb 14th 2009, 18:55

    What about Kevin Smith in Die Hard 4? Come to think about it, everyone except Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4? They do some crazy stuff by just tapping a few buttons. Regarding Independence Day - there's a deleted scene included in the extended edition where Jeff Golblum is left alone in the alien spaceship with his laptop. He was told not to touch anything and we never saw him do anything on-screen but there was the opportunity there to interface with the alien technology. In the theatrical version it did smack of deus ex machina, but if they'd given it time rather than jumping to the next part where stuff blows up, it could've been a bit more believable.

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  • somewhatfrail

    Feb 16th 2009, 21:02

    In Independence Day don't they say that all of today's technology was reverse engineered from the alien tech on the ship? Human computers, therefore, are descendants of what was once alien. (Wow, did I just actually excuse Roland Emmerich?)

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  • Wrighty1985V

    Apr 1st 2009, 6:17

    I would like to correct you totalfilm!!! 'Despite the fact he’s able to get Witwicky’s address – and a picture of his face - from the auction site, Prime stills thinks his target’s name is Ladiesman217. ' It is Baricade refers to Sam as Ladiesman...''Are you username Ladiesman217??'' Prime..if you watch the film again you'll realise..asks him ''are you Sam Whitwicky?'' It is Prime that EXPLAINS to Sam that they got his details from Ebay.He does NOT think his name is ladiesman...how could you possibly get that wrong?

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  • pahakeisari

    Apr 9th 2009, 14:04

    This is a topic I've long been interested in, of course movies make reality blunders often out of ignorance, they don't see it'd matter to artistic vision or box office profits. It's to be expected, movies have never had anything close to believable fiction compared to books. (Case in point: sci-fi, star trek tng was the only one that made an effort.) Sometimes technical audience also raise useless points, like "this is unix" line in jurassic park, I had that very similar 3rd filemanager on irix at the time and didn't see any problem with the plot. Of course it's not what unix-systems generally "look like" but if she was familiar with the application she could very well say it was a unix system. And it was much more believable than "Hollywood OS"s usually are. Best movie rendition of a hacker I've seen so far is probably in movie Takedown (aka Hackers 2). While not the greatest movie in traditional measures I'd still recommend anyone to see it. I just hope in future we'd see more movies written for the technical audience, with realistic depiction of gradual progress over time, instead of childish action sequences and "hack the pentagon while receiving a b*****b" like in Swordfish.

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  • Ladiesman217

    Apr 18th 2011, 4:41

    huh.... about Transformer... did you watch the movie ?? it was not Prime nor an Autobot who asked him, it was one the Decepticon... it's was even more funny to read that one a "film website" hmm...

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