Trinity hacking scene youtube

The studio. Deep roots help filmmakers reach new heights. The project. The tail wagging the dog. The reveal. While reactions to Neo being stripped of his responsibility might be divided, it will certainly be interesting to see his new relationship with Trinity play out when the blockbuster finally hits screens. Source: Uproxx. After graduating from Brown University with a B. He now lives in and works from Milan, Italy.

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The Net. That's the weakness. Elazari: What Elliot is doing could be even considered quite rude, having somebody shoulder-surf you like that. Yes, it does happen. However, for Elliot to, you know, within one second understand what's going on that screen, get all the context of that code, and then tell them how to win that challenge, I mean, I understand the show, of course, sets him up to be of above-average intelligence, but he would have to be like a supercomputer.

Elliot: The game trusts whatever data you give it to recreate the board. Poison the data. You can make it run whatever code you want. Elazari: It sounds like the hackers need to reverse engineer or to take apart a Minesweeper-style game.

This sounds quite realistic. It's actually based on the real-world CTF challenge from So I think it's really cool the show went to the trouble of getting a real-world hacking challenge. Elliot: All I have to do is hack the registrar and change the name server configs.

Elazari: What he's doing right now is very realistic, and it would have taken him a lot longer than it did. One does not hack a registrar in two seconds. Elliot needs to get in touch with the backdoor that they planted inside E Corp in the past season.

In order to do that, he's utilizing the fact that backdoor, which is basically a computer software, has a hard-coded C2 domain. C2 in this context means command and control. And it's oftentimes where hackers or malicious criminals create a piece of code that's going to run inside an organizational network, but in order to be in a position to communicate with the backdoor, Elliot first needs to take over the domain.

And the next thing he does, and we see him do it, is issue the command "shred. I'm gonna rate this scene at nine out of I'm only deducting the one point just because of how fast everything happened and how quickly those hackers let Elliot jump into their CTF game.

Elazari: Well, we can tell she's a hacker. She's got all those stickers on her laptop. Nine Ball, Rihanna, is using open-source intelligence, which is a fancy term for the internet. This is what's called a spear- phishing attack. She's not just going on a phishing expedition; she is spear phishing. She's targeting this particular individual with an email with a topic, something that he's really passionate about.

There are definitely attacks out there that would give an attacker control of your webcam, and they could even turn on your webcam and you wouldn't know that it's on. But it typically takes a little bit more time and a tiny little bit more interaction on the side of the victim.

They would maybe run an application, install something. It will take a little bit extra. These types of physical boxes that would allow you to unlock any passwords don't really exist for computer passwords.

Many of you have a phone that if you put in the four-digit PIN or a seven-digit PIN and you get it wrong, the phone will get wiped after five or 10 wrong attempts. So those physical boxes in the real world, used mostly by law enforcement, would bypass that using all kinds of different tricks, but they would require physical access to be connected with a cable to their target device, to the phone. It makes sense that they require an additional password just to get access to that particular software.

That's cool. That makes sense. However, this looks like a character password, and it's got not just numbers, but also upper case, lower case, and special characters. For a password of that length, it would have about 94 to the power of 12 different possible combinations. That's a number so big that I can't even spell it out. You'd have to use the whole screen just to write it down, right here. There is no way an electronic box could crack that. And if Nine Ball has a box like that, it's more valuable than whatever it is they're gonna steal from The Metropolitan Museum.

I would probably say the first part, about the spear phishing, is extremely realistic, but then it kind of loses the realness. So I'm gonna average it at seven out of Elazari: I think it was the turning point, where Hollywood started showing realistic hacking. So, what we're seeing here is that Trinity is using Nmap, which is a legit network scanning and mapping tool that hackers use all the time. We also see her using something called SSH Nuke.

So, SSH Nuke refers to "secure shell. So, this was a real-world vulnerability in SSH that was only discovered maybe about a month before this film went to set. So as somebody was working on the screenwrite, as they were in preproduction, this vulnerability in that piece of code was discovered, and they already featured it in the movie, which I think is extremely timely, extremely accurate. The only tiny element here that isn't that realistic is that she is resetting the password.

If she successfully exploits that vulnerability, the exploit would give her root privileges. She wouldn't necessarily have to reset the password. There is no way she could hack like that and not make a ton of typos. All the hackers know you need fingerless gloves to type fast.

I'm gonna rate this scene at 9. And I'm taking away half a point just because of the gloves, girl. Elazari: So, Lisbeth here is doing the groundwork. She is casing her target.