Found some very special “make it look hacky” bash in criminal minds.

  • @Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
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    NO MR HACKER PLEASE. NOT MY KDE DOTFILE!!!

    SOMBODY HELP, HE IS RICING MY DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT!!!

    HES POSTING IT ON UNIXPORN THAT SICK FUCK

  • @EonNShadow@pawb.social
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    593 months ago

    I’ve told the wife I can’t watch these shows because of how bad the tech always is, and I can’t stop myself from losing suspension of disbelief when something like this happens

    • z3rOR0ne
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      553 months ago

      The only exception is Mr. Robot. Check this command the main character runs as root:

      shred -uz /*
      

      Only show I’ve seen where they show real commands with really damaging effects.

      • Laurel Raven
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        263 months ago

        I remember watching the first episode and he brought up a terminal and thinking “here we go” then…“holy shit… Those are real commands”

        That and the explanations I was ready to laugh at for being terrible, then… Wait, no, those actually make sense

        • The Menemen
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          And it is also great television. For me personally, the best I’ve ever seen. Whoever reads this and hasn’t seen it already: Do it! And watch it all! Some might think season 2 is a little slow (I still liked it), but season 3 is just incredible.

          • Laurel Raven
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            43 months ago

            Yeah, I’ll admit I kind of stalled out in season 2 but I’ve meant to go back and finish… It would be easier if my wife liked that sort of TV 😅 I’ll just have to watch it alone 😭

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        That should only shred the top level files in the root directory though. Since shred doesn’t do it recursively and doesn’t know what to do with subdirectories.

        Do any distros store system critical files at the root directory? It’s all subdirectories on mine. I guess if you were storing important data files in the root directory they would get shredded but that’s really bad practice anyway and I doubt it’s super common.

    • melroy
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      103 months ago

      Same issue here… Now with the TV serie called “The Equalizer” (2021-*).

    • @Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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      I have this vague memory of one of the CSIs showing a list of IP addresses with 4-digit octets… I get not wanting to risk using real IP addresses, but at least use 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x x

    • ElectricMachman
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      13 months ago

      Brooklyn Nine-Nine did an entire episode lampshading this whole thing. (S06E14 for the curious)

  • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    at least output dmesg or get htop on the screen or something. you could find it on the internet if you look up commands to look like a hacker and thats not even 30 seconds of effort. i wonder how many other professions cringe at the shitty tv shows about their craft.

  • @Routhinator@startrek.website
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    223 months ago

    That’s some shitty ‘hacking’…

    But what makes these shell commands ‘bash’ exactly? Seems like this could be a half-dozen shells.

    Also… why are ‘hackers’ always using a shell in some gui program?

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      253 months ago

      Also… why are ‘hackers’ always using a shell in some gui program?

      An actual CLI would frighten the windows users watching the show.

    • @HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Yeah everyone knows the real way to hack Linux is to do tree /

      Lots of weird looking text output means lots of hacking

  • @dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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    just tried to re-watch “the girl in the spider’s web”, the not-sequel to fincher’s masterpiece that’s “the girl with the dragon tattoo”. I remember hating it way back when and went in with a “how bad can it be” attitude… dios mio, what a colossal mountain of shit. the “hacking” in OP is hard sci-fi compared to this turdistan, and that’s the least of its problems.

    someone posted already the gell-mann amnesia effect and this applies to everything. how guns are portrayed in movies as magical. cars and how they’re driven. the laughable naive cop shows. medical procedures. legal proceedings. journalists and their MO.

    you hafta run your brain at 110% at all times to be able to somewhat disregard the learned idiocy that was programmed into you from an early age. here’s hoping we have the infrastructure in place so generations that are coming can avoid becoming similarly handicapped.

  • HexesofVexes
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    143 months ago

    And here we see an expert hacker at work, with just a few commands as a root user, they managed to gain root access.

  • Chris
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    143 months ago

    I’m sure there’s a community for nonsense TV/film hacking/Linux screens. I can’t remember what it’s called.

  • Kangy
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    133 months ago

    I was playing DMC: Devil May Cry (the prequel one) and they used a bunch of mount commands on a screen to show Virgil hacking the network