Accompanied by bad acting and writing

The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.

Go watch Mr Robot, it's great and does not do this

Never forget the infamous NCIS co-op hacking on a keyboard scene.

If it's even that. Most of the time it's non-nonsensical gibberish.

sudo apt-get install hackerman

sees them using Assembly

okay this probably doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to prove it

Don't forget the ridiculous amount of beeping and other sounds when characters fly over the screen at twice the speed of light!

As an actress, that's nonsense, if hacking scenes in movies are fake, then how do you explain this documentary I watched where this hacker man hacked a kung fu fighting cop back in time to kill Hitler (and David Hasselhoff was there for some reason, too)?

Do we have a "itsaunixsystem" community here?

Wait, you guys don't update your system and install random packages before going on a hacking spree?

What have I been doing all this time?

Running "top" is also some common thing.

So, when I got a bunch of free serial WYSE terminals ages ago, I propped them up on the shelf, daisy-chained them, wrote a wrapper to be able to address all four screens through one UART, and had them display (and regularly update) system stats. Just because.

I recently started rewatching Gundam Wing, and one of the computer screens with fast scrolling text was just scrolling through the Readme of either old Adobe Software or old Printer software (I don't remember which).

The only hacking that ever felt plausible to me was in Mr. Robot.

It's almost always just htop and/or hackertyper and/or the fancy matrix effect

Dark mode.

Funnily enough I have to hide terminal windows when updating while I'm around any of my less tech savy friends who think it's scary or creepy. I really dislike them portraying this as "hacking".

Try being a medical biologist watching outbreak/pandemic films. It's fucking painful to watch.

I thought the bash history in tron: legacy was kind of clever. There was stuff like vi last_will_and_testament.txt before the computer ducking command. I remember being surprised some prop designer knew enough about computers to set up that easter egg. Although I think I was reading that they contracted out the design of the OS to some team or something.

This always makes me laugh (IRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

I think that most of the time even if they know what it would look like in the real world, movie creators intentionally make it look silly - I guess mostly for the entertainment value, or as kind of a joke in the lines of "let's see how absurd we can make it before your grandma notices something's not right".

ngl the net had some great hacking scenes tho

The hacking scene in the Command and Conquer game is unrivalled. Actually piloting worms through cyberspace, with the very real risk of death to the hacker, this is the future I knew and loved as a child

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'm always so confused when I see a movie use scrolling C code in a terminal. Like where do they get it from?

I’ve seen this post 5 times already

Usually nmap