I've love to watch a realistic hacker movie, because the shit that hackers get into is genuinely bonkers. For example, some white hats got all the way into Apple's inventory system and IIRC they could've disrupted all of Apple's logistics. Imagine if a black hat got into that. Or the Ukrainian hackers that got into the taxation system of the Russians and were there for a few months. Or the USAians who got into the biggest Belgian telecom and were kicked out years later by a Dutch security company.

Movies or even better TV series showing the time it takes to get into such systems would be amazing. Day 1 phishing, day 40 established beachhead, day 120 gained access to internal system X, day 121 triggered internal alarm and was nearly discovered but was able to cover up traces, etc.

Nobody watches 90 minutes of football matches. Everyone watches the highlights and that's what movies could be too.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nobody watches 90 minutes of football matches

Um...

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I guess tens of millions of people count as nobody.

Unless they don't mean American football. That Jacks the number up to probably over 1b

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure they're talking association football. Gridiron football "matches" (which are called games in the US) are 60 minutes of clock-on time but more than 2 hours if you count all the ad breaks and clock-stopped time. The 90 minute figure only makes sense for association football. And yes, it's at least a billion people watching them every week.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh and the ads run into playtime, so once the commercials are done, they give you a 30 second recap of what you missed, then back to commercials because the coach called a time out

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I've been to an NFL game twice, and it's so much worse in person. At home at least the ad breaks are a chance to go to the bathroom or get a snack. At the game it's not worth getting out of your seat and trudging up to the concourse because 2 minutes isn't long enough for that. So, instead, you sit and wait for the action to resume.

It also makes it more clear that a lot of the long timeouts are purely TV-based.

There are plenty of time-outs that have to do with the state of the game: teams calling time-outs to discuss a plan, a time-out after a point is scored while the sides change, the 2-minute warning, the break after the 1st and 3rd quarters, and so-on. But, you also get explicit TV timeouts that are called by the TV networks when it's been too long since the last commercial.

In the stadium when that happens the offense might be in a flow, and the defense may be wobbling. But, the TV networks need to show their ads, so the network calls a timeout. Meanwhile, the players just stand around on the field, ready for the next play until the network television coordinator lowers his bright orange glove.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There’s a podcast called Darknet Diaries you might like. Skip the first year or so and start after that.

[–] mcmoor@bookwormstory.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't dislike the first year or so, does it get even better? I instead heard that newer episodes is meh.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The first like 10 episodes I feel like he was just trying to figure out how to do the podcast.

I feel like when I recommend the show and people start from the beginning, it kind of sucks.

I like the later episodes.

First 10 episodes kind of suck.

He should actually pull those and remove them from his channel.

The later episodes are really good imo.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Yes! I've listened to those. Having some of those episodes in an anthology TV series could be wonderful. Some even deserve a series of their own.

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago

Mr. Robot was fairly good at the realism, and even there it was mostly just good for jokes like this:

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

I could even imagine such a movie being titled "Highlight Reel."

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

You sound like the type of fellow who would enjoy listening to Darknet Diaries.