Being a hacker in the early days of computers must have been so fun and accessable
Leader: “Alright, while he’s working on breaking into their system, we’ll–”
Hacker: “I’m in.”
Leader: “That fast? Did you find some zero-day to exploit?”
Hacker who just tried username “admin”, password “password”: “Yyyyeeeeeees?”
To this day, database hacks (top 1000 most popular passwords) and reverse hacks (a few popular passwords on a few thousand accounts) still often result in successful penetrations.
The weakest security link is between chair and keyboard.
What film?
I’m guessing it was Wargames.
What is wargames (1983)?
Wargames is the one that scared President Reagan and created the (still overreaching) CFAA.
That said, at 300 baud, hacking was s . . . . . l . . . . . o . . . . . . . . . . w.
I’ll take “Movies with poor portrayals of real things that changed the world anyway,” for $500, Alex.
