It also showed that realistic hacking could make for interesting screen drama. Hacking a offside backup company by coming in for an interview and installing a trojaned wifi router.
Haven't seen that one, but the one I remember was from Matrix Reloaded.
Trinity used Nmap to scan for vulnerabilities and then used a SSH1 CRC32 attack, which was a real world loophole in computers back then.
And the tech world definitely noticed. There were a lot of discussions about how cool that was on blogs and forums back then. I think even Wired Magazine wrote about it.
The weirdness is that the random 13 year old apparently both:
A) Has experience on a proprietary server file explorer only that was almost exclusively in use in huge data centers at the time. And...
B) decides that the slow graphics heavy option is the right choice over a simple command line, while a raptor is actively breaking into the room to eat her.
Edit: and yes, I get that we're supposed to connect that her grandfather is rich and she grew up with all the best toys. Which arguably excuses A, anyway.
In hackers, hacking means to literally jump into a 3D world where you like battle and dodge the programs and connections between web pages which are corporeal.
The movie Who Am I has some great hacking scenes since most of them are like 20% actual hacking and 80% social engineering and getting physical access to places/servers.
It's made by the same people who made Dark so if you liked that show and are willing to read subtitles
In the mystery series My Life Is Murder, Madison puts a thumb drive into someone's laptop and presto she is typing, downloads and is finished in 60 seconds. No guessing a password or searching for files. Just shoves it in and takes it out. This happens in most episodes of the current season.
The ego shit script that accompanies this I'd vote makes this better or on par with '2 hackers 1 keyboard'
'I thought you said this'd be hard' is just cringfest.
I cant find the clip online, but i seem to remember a scene in 'Lucy' where she, while on an airplane, pulls out two laptops and uses them both, one with each hand, to do some tech magic.