A lot of my friend strongly recommend we to watch Die Hard4 and they told me inside the hacker do a lot of hacking via command, however I can't see any of them using command but alot of custom make program(What a disapointed because of I can't see something real).

And, I can't believe hacking is doing in that way and so many services is open inside a hacker's machine?

1 more thing I feel confuse is what distro the hacker use? Never see the logo before.
What your opinion Mr. Hacker?

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Indeed, Die Hard 4 makes "hacking" (black-hat) seem trivialy easy to the audience.

Often commments such as:

"Now, I'll just hack in..."

are used. WTF? *just* hack in??? Lol, it gives people the impression he is using a virtual machete to hack/chop away at the system defenses.
Other stupid things appear on computer screens, such as "Uploading virus..."
Again, WTF? How does the computer know what you are uploading?

Lastly, they seem to use very futuristic graphical interfaces on the computers, no command line stuff....

Uh, it is FICTION you know.

Sure, but it spawns an extremely wrong idea of what "hacking" is and just furthers the already wrong deffenition of hacking.
And many people gobble up all the stuff they see in movies as fact, rather than picking up a book or even visiting wikipedia to get the FACTS right...

And ... did you see the movie "Hackers"? Hmmm ... so far off the mark as to what hackers do in real life. But the point in movies is not to make it look real, but to make it fun to watch! And that Anjelina Jolie ...

There is some funny thing this like they use nokia phone to connect satellite. I told my wife this is impossible, but my wife said i don't have imagination (Come on, everything can be done, but not in this way).

Well, there is a real hacking inside the movie, which is social engineering (when they steal the car).


*If there is a 'GO CODE', I want 1 set too.

What did you expect, the truth? Like a bunch of NSA guys installing Narus STA 6400's with the help of AT&T? That's not going to help sell iPhones.

So what? Let the "general public" be in blissful ignorance about the realities of hacking... who cares!

die hard makes 'hacking' even easier than using metasploit

Agree, they can open each other web cam//cctv easily, some more increase the resolution.
And, what happend to their internet bandwith, unbelievable fast.
Finally, seems like they know all kind of program world wide, they know where to open the map, stop the electricity, find a necessary cctv, find a traffic light, find a F35 flight and etc.

There a real hacker.

However, I like their GUI, hopefully 1 day my command prompt look like that, lets start customize all command prompt program look thats

Aye.
I loved that social engeneering bit, great movie I think.
of course, I must say.
Why dod they press the delete key when the computers crashed?

I know that confused me too

Reminds me of the very recent Penny Arcade comic about the very same: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16

Nowadays hacking is (I think mostly, I don't know) done with social engineering.

Why all this hassle of brute forcing remotely a server to gain access, risking being found if you don't delete the traces on time when you just have to call the user tell him that you are at a remote site (out of company) a new it technician and if you don't do a job that requires the password the boss will kill you.

This only requires 3 things, the user's name, his phone number and the boss' name! Not even routing the attack 3 times around the globe.

I read Kevin Mitnick's book about social engineer, 2 years ago and the stuff that's written inside are trully amazing and achievable, with nowadays lack of security training from personel.

I think a new thread must be started...