{"id":2345,"date":"2015-04-08T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2015-04-08T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:40:51","slug":"hacking-is-unrealistic-in-tv-shows-and-movies-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/hacking-is-unrealistic-in-tv-shows-and-movies-no-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking is unrealistic in TV shows and Movies&#8230; No really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months I have seen multiple posts\/comments\/rants about how Hacking is not portrayed realistically in media. Is it really that big a surprise that like all things, Hacking is also portrayed unrealistically in TV &#038; Movies? Or did you really think that <a href='http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-ten-most-amazingly-unrealistic-driving-scenes-ever-1555244055'>this is how cars are driven<\/a> or that people can run around after getting shot multiple times with a machine gun without bleeding to death? TV\/Movies are meant to entertain, and sometimes that requires stretching the truth a bit &#8217;cause guess what, real life doesn&#8217;t look that great on the screen. <\/p>\n<p>Now I am not saying that some shows don&#8217;t take it to such an extreme that you are left wondering what on earth just happened but for the most part it is ok to stretch the truth. If I really wanted to look at a someone spending hours trying to figure out why some piece of code is not working then I don&#8217;t have to go to the movies for it, I can just go to work and look at the folks around me. (Not that watching them is not entertaining at times \ud83d\ude09 ). <\/p>\n<p>All that being said, at times you do feel like finding the director or producer of a particularly WTH depiction of technology and smacking them on the head. Few of the gems that stand out in my memory are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Scorpion, the heroes need to get a backup for the ATC software from a plane which has the only non-corrupted version of the software (apparently the IT admins there haven&#8217;t heard of multiple backups). The only way to get it off the plane is to dangle an Ethernet cable from the plane to a laptop in a car racing under the plane. <\/li>\n<li>In Bones, a genius hacker creates marks on bone that when scanned to create a 3D model of the body somehow automatically convert to code and make the CPU fry itself. The best part is that they can&#8217;t replace the burnt boards and be back up and running because apparently backups are for wimps. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the others are listed <a href=http:\/\/io9.com\/5643388\/the-10-goofiest-computer-hacking-scenes-in-cinema-history\/;>here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19160_8-scenes-that-prove-hollywood-doesnt-get-technology.html\">here<\/a>. There are a ton of such instances, but for the most part I don&#8217;t care as I am watching to be entertained. As long as they don&#8217;t get to a point where the issues distract from the show I am fine with it. <\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that I don&#8217;t appreciate movies\/shows where they do research and the techno-babble makes some semblance of sense. Those are a treasure and need to be appreciated like fine wine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/best-hacking-movies\/2\/\">This<\/a> site has a list of some of the more realistic hacking portrayals in the media.<\/p>\n<p>After talking about all this I feel a desire to go watch Wargames again. Or maybe Hackers. \ud83d\ude09 So this is all for now, I will write more later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months I have seen multiple posts\/comments\/rants about how Hacking is not portrayed realistically in media. Is it really that big a surprise that like all things, Hacking is also portrayed unrealistically in TV &#038; Movies? 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