Guarantee the PSU "hard drive" is because a director said "That's too small. I need something big and with cables so it looks like a computer part." Kinda like how a bomb needs to look like wires and a clock, not fertilizer and an arduino.
@@Lauren_C yeah, but would you show it to the explosive disposal team to let them know? You'd set a time for yourself to get to safety, but not make it easy for others to evacuate.
I agree with this hypothesis. Seems pretty likely for just a visual, especially in a time where less people would be readily aware of what those components look like.
@@aaronplays_ a displayed time can always be a red herring so it should always be treated as such, also if cutting a specific wire will diffuse a bomb then just cut them all at once, or just cut the battery, real ones are basically sealed shut really hard
You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences.
You need to check out "Firewall" (2006). Harrison Ford as an IT security expert is the least believable thing in the world. Best scene of the movie: He connects the scan device of a fax machine to his daughter's MP3 player to store information from a display he attaches the scan unit to. My brain melted when I saw it in the theater.
I actually like the fact that the IT expert takes advice from the guy (her boss, probably) who only knows that they're looking at "blinky boxes". It do be like that in strictly hierarchical and authoritarian organizations! 😂
@@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water Usually it's much healthier to say no when a couple asks you if you want to come back to their hotel room to film a video together. Especially if they plan on uploading it to the internet.
Should've had Die Hard 4 where they somehow overclock a PSU, via code injection, to have the potential explosive power of ~5 dynamites blowing up an entire room or house.
was it like that? i always assumed these systems were provided to them by the villian with the exploding box pre-installed.. though i haven't seen the movie in a while
A friend of mine blow up the caps in his PSU. Don´t know quite why the blow up. they just did randomly. It was a quite large explosion (The MB was fine)
@@sorcierx2604they could have had some sort of fuse tied to opening task manager or checking for a certain signal. Kind of how Samsung has the security fuse for the bootloader in their phones that if that’s blown some of the hardware stops working.
6:40 - "Tool" and "Trojan" are both considered acceptable. In fact, unless it was a "true trojan" where someone executed it manually after being tricked into running it thinking it was something else, "tool" is more common.
At my last job my supervisor legit thought the monitor was a computer. I had 2 screens and got a memory error that popped up on one and froze the pc. When I asked them to call IT, this person looked me dead in the face and said "the error is on this computer not THAT ONE" pointing at the empty screen that didn't have the error and asked me to keep working.
Wendell is one of those people that knows alot, you just have to ask the right questions. Id love to just sit down and pick his brain about tech for hours.
@@doublej42 They have to be careful to not show how to 100% do this completely illegal thing, which is why they'll either miss out a couple of steps or gloss over the process. For example, in 'Breaking Bad' they didn't show all the steps required to make meth. For me personally, I prefer "Yeah, that's pretty close to how it's done." to "No, that's not how any of it works at all."
In The Amazing World of Gumball S03E32 ("The Safety"), Gumball's sister Anais explaining how she hacked the security systems was surprisingly realistic. The most accurate hacking scene in television history may just be from a kids' cartoon. There should be a clip of it if you search up "Gumball's Sister Anais Knows Hacking"
@6:30 we still call it a Remote Access Tool in our SOC department, as a RAT can still be a legitimate tool (Remote Desktop, Teamviewer, Logmein, Bomgar are considered RAT's but are used for legit support purposes)
I was going to suggest Swordfish. The whole hacking scene where he spins around in his chair whilst on a computer with about 17 screens made my cringe gland go into overdrive!
The most accurate hacking in a series I've seen is Mr. Robot. They've clearly consulted with professional security experts/(ethical) hackers, cause that show was on point in most things.
@@chrissametrinequartz9389Na Rami Malek is just a good actor. I believe he's said in interviews he didn't know what some of the technical stuff in the script was or even meant. But they had good direction for that show so he played it well.
The NCIS scene where she says "I'm being hacked" is so bad, but the emotion it captures is very accurate to how I felt when I realized my email and GBoard were hacked. The chaos was all internal, but it was a fight.
So, as someone who has consulted on one of the projects, yes transport departments are using boxes similar to that that monitor traffic by watching for nearby Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices and counting them up. Before the bluetooth randomisation stuff, you could get an estimate of traffic speed/flow by watching the same mac address traverse a city. Now its more just about aggregate data, how long each mac is seen for, how many macs at any point, etc, to get an idea of peak and minimum traffic levels and how much a road is used.
All the cars from Ford, Jeep, Toyota, and VW had the same internal code for their freaking autonomous driving systems, and these individuals possessed the script to instantly hack into and redirect them-truly believable
tesla and ford and audi have all had claimed bug bounties that allow remote control of a car companies like audi use two ecus now as a protection where the top layer is mainly reporting data and the 2nd is your control system and mapping wont work unless a rotating key is checked. I actually has exp with a bounty for Bluelink NDA issue alllowed me to start my own car just by knowing the vin with no auth needed CVE-2017-6052
It somehow overrides your hydraulic brakes too. That being said, my car had its ABS go nuts, and the effectively made it unable to stop. So I guess if this hacker messed with that, they could effectively disable your ability to hit the brake.
var brand = getBrand(); if (brand == "ford") execute("ford.script"); if (brand == "jeep") execute("jeep.script"); .... I don't see the problem of making a script for targeting many hardware platforms.
You were able to pick just a single episode of CSI Cyber? That's impressive, as every single episode I spent more time looking at my palm than the TV screen.
The pilot episode with the 60s carnival ride having and using an ethernet serial port and providing a 3D overlay and diagnostic was it for me. I turned it off after that episode, canceled my series recording on my DirecTV and never looked back. I'm glad it got marginally better, but I'm not sorry I didn't watch that series.
@@CareBear-Killer it only lasted 2 season even tho Ratings were decent for CSI show but considering at the time Original CSI and i think CSI : Miami and NY were still on it did not hold a candle to the OGs and now it is a shame CBS canceled CSI: Vegas Revival after 3 seasons as it went back to old formula and was good and had a good Seasons Plot for both seasons like they used to do.
5:50 Shit like that happens because producers or directors say "that doesn't look 'techy' enough, where's the wires? Get something with wires hanging out of it!"
Yeah, there are not many franchises that can sustain quality. F&F3 Tokyo Drift was a rare one, and it's sad to see how low subsequent ones have been. That they are still somewhat fun for me, is just down to my 'tune in, drop out' mode for most movies.
@@lozodidit Tbf, their intent to show was that it was a foregone conclusion that would win, and even by the second movie they were heavily using cgi for the races. I still liked second one, but that was already less about the racing.
@@lozodidit it was for a police station raid but why would they need the Porsche in the first place as the car they raced against it had to be faster in the Brazil street race anyway making it all redundant.
In the TV series "Limitless", there was one scene where the main character was on an international phone call, speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese, while the person on the other end of the line was speaking in Vietnamese and earlier in the episode it was mentioned that he was calling someone in Thailand.
In NUMB3RS, two 'brothers' who supposedly grew up together in California, had a telephone conversation where they each pronounce the city "San Pedro" *differently*. 😅
To be a bit fair, if any of them are multilingual, having a cross-language conversation isn't all that hard, and many will mix vocabulary whenever they feel like it.
Mr. Robot was really great, they actually have shown a bash and pretty realistic hacks! Unfortunate that the later season focused on his mental disorder...
They had several tech enthusiasts, network engineers and hackers on staff to help make sure they got it as real as possible without making it too technical for the general audience. I think they found the perfect level of both in that show. Even the episode with the hard drive data recovery was mostly sound.
On the car thing, not just self driving cars but lots of recent cars and especially semis have wifi hotspots blasting out their AP name and mac. I live near an interstate and my Unifi system records hundreds of “nearby networks” every day from this.
RAT can also be abbreviated as a Remote Access Tool, since the stub or the infected (and supposedly FUD or fully undetectable) file that is being executed is the trojan itself, hence why they called it Remote Access Tool. I mean surely we can describe it as a Remote Access Trojan but nothing that he said was wrong.
"look at that spread" I mean that be one argument that FF is set in an alternative universe, where a minigun with 1 meter long barrel on a mount got more spread than a saw off shotgun
Mr. Robot, at least the first season, is as close as it gets to 'quite plausible' without becoming too boring. Nothing too drastic to pick apart there, except maybe some... questionable performances.
Fun fact: The transport traffic monitoring systems actually DO sniff out Bluetooth MAC addresses as most cars have it broadcasting. They then compare the same MAC address for next time it's detected to figure out the average travel time over that distance.
Correct. There used to be a writeup over at Houston Transtar that describes how this technology works. It will first try to detect electronic tolling tags and use the broadcast serial number as the tracker. If that wasn't available, it will look for all bluetooth MAC addresses and compares them to a database to see if that one has been active on the network within a certain amount of time. The cycle repeats for the next transponder.
There's a guy who does this with firefighting shows but he greenscreens himself into the scene as an actor complaining about "you dont leap frog with the cervical collar bag to clear a mine field!"
The space force one is legendary Can't tell you how many times I was doing an assignment, playing a game or just doing shit on my computer before getting abruptly shut down by a magnificent windows update which if (according to microsoft) isnt installed within 3 femtoseconds of its release, my current non-updated windows install will release gonorrhoea into every orifice of my apartment block and my small hometown within a matter of minutes
@@RECURSIVE_MEMORY_LOGIC Lucily my company doesn't have a policy that stops you from erasing your system but still I feel your pain. There is no mallware for windows worse than windows
You could do a whole episode like this JUST covering films and TV shows using "Zoom and enhance" in detective/investigative context. Yes with AI you can technically now improve the quality and resolution of a low quality picture, but that is only educated guess work and isn't going to just create evidence out of nowhere. You could then wrap it up with the zoom and enhance scene from Red Dward, which is a very funny parady specifically on this.
Creating evidence out of nowhere would open some legal shenanigans. Some lawyer tried a different kind of computer trick to help out a case he was taking but it got him into trouble. Basically he asked ChatGPT to find some legal cases that would be relevant to his clients, but the program gave him cases were completely made up on the spot. He didn't know they were made up at the time, and tried to use those fake cases for his clients defense in court.
My favourite movie, the anime "Belle: the dragon and the freckled princess" has gotten a lot about the tech they show right. Down to the hard drive clickedy-clacking away in the background when the room is silent and Hiro's computer is running on full tilt doing a search.
@@gippygames Hey, it's kinda science fiction. The whole movie is built up around a Metaverse in which you control your character with mind control earplugs. Also, with current AI tech you probably could overenhance images pretty easily. Although I'm not sure you'd get anything helpful from it.
I used to be really into a popular UK murder detective drama called Vera and would watch the new episodes every week they came out with my Dad. However, one time on an episode which I was quite invested in because the mystery involved the perpetrator posting about his crimes on a libel-safe analogue of Facebook, the whole plot got ruined for me. After the police started _tracing_ the person who was posting to the social media site, they suddenly burst in with this breakthrough that they got the perpetrator's IP address. Vera then rallies the police team to make a move but not before delivering the slightly cringeworthy line of "(...) and get me that IP address", as though it was some physical address she could direct her team to. The whole detective team then swoop into a university campus dorm room where the perpetrator is sat behind a computer screen, writing about his upcoming exploits. After being apprehended, he asks how he was caught, to which Detective Chief Inspector Vera says "we got the IP address of the account making the posts which pointed to your specific computer", meaning it was the discovery which underpinned the entire episode's conclusion - despite being a public IP address on a university campus network. Big L moment for ITV's production team.
The most incredible thing about that summary is that Vera would know what an IP address was. (for non-brits: vera is a 50-60 something white woman who shouts while being scottish)
I remember seeing that episode. As a handwavy way of justifying it in the context of the episode, theoretically something similar with extra steps could be possible if there were enough logs kept (although explaining it in full would probably take too much time and interest away from the story). 1. Get the server logs from the website and correlate the account holder with their public IP address. 2. The internet provider should have logs of who was assigned the address at the time (e.g. Australia has enough metadata retention laws that those types of logs would probably exist, not sure about the UK). 3. Find that the address was used by the uni. At each layer of NAT, find the group of devices that were on the network for all messages / posts being made. Hopefully there is only one device left by the end. If proxy servers and firewalls are being used, the logs may be able to show that the device accessed the IP address of the social media platform around those times. The DNS server used might also be able to show this if a local one is present. 4. Because this is a corporate style network, my guess is that it should be possible to correlate devices with the account / login details used to access the network. 5. Pounce. I'm in no way a professional, so this situation may not be possible or feasible.
The stupid thing about the "Bone Virus" is that while it's possible for "accidental" vulnerabilities to happen (though pretty much any of that data should be properly contained and sterilized to prevent it, accidents can happen) they sort of imply in the episode that the virus was "planted" in the bones which is just wildly impossible. Stuff like ">start counterstrike" is dumb, but more forgivable since it's a reference, but this is a good example of "forced pandering" and its pitfalls. Frankly the best "counterstrike" is to literally cut the connection off, the fact is they shouldn't really need to do a full shut down of the server to prevent access... but instead "nuke it" is pretty easy for americans to understand I guess. Code written on top of another code is a relatively safe way to explain it to people without too much jargon so I'd give them the pass on that, the IP's being fake is totally fair, the fact is if they had a single "real" IP in it, ARG detectives would basically DDOS it trying to get details about the next season or something. Bluetooth is a pretty easy short hand for wireless signals, most people that don't understand that it's a branded technology think that ALL wireless connections are either Wifi or Bluetooth, so I understand people making that mistake... (I've seen people call wireless charging "Bluetooth charging") but it's the kind of mistake that doesn't really have value, it's not "easier" to explain a wireless connection as Bluetooth when you can just say "wireless" and be more accurate while getting the same point across... unless you're getting paid to say Bluetooth. I have no comment on the "meme" scene really, honestly the trope about hackers typing at mach 6 is probably one of the most boring things people get wrong. The only thing about that scene that still bothers me is that... he definitely unplugs the monitor, MAYBE he pulls the plug on the entire power strip, but even then... the information being stolen isn't being kept on a server somewhere? I do like how this show trends towards the intention of making REALLY dumb "mistakes" (like 2 people 1 keyboard) but is doing it on purpose (much like they do when they step into other "professional" territories) and the fact that the old guy pulls the plug on it is kind of the obvious answer to "i'm being hacked" which shows they DO actually know SOMETHING when they wrote this. Dell probably paid top dollar to be on that desk to be the "god's eye" btw, this is the things I notice. There's a decent chance they have to be very careful how much they get accurate with this stuff because of that sponsorship, something to keep in mind when you DO see some of these mistakes, it's very likely stipulations or directions for branded content. Space force is a comedy, I can forgive the inaccuracy of group policy protection or the fact that he's probably got 10 computers he's logged into CURRENTLY to go and do the calculations on if he actually needed to because the point of the scene is F*Micro$oft. Yeah, the Federal Department of Incessant Federal Redundancy's is crazy. I mean yeah, I can forgive not knowing where a motorcade is in a big city, information on it might not have been shared about it properly and I get that. Otherwise their universe is so ridiculous that it's hard to believe that they don't have magic powers, rendering all of our understanding of their technology completely useless.
When I was younger, I avoided tech movies like Firewall 2006 because I knew the technical side would be all wrong. Today I just say to myself "They don't understand but this is the direction they need for the story." (it is usually the MacGuffin). As long as you understand that it is fiction, just sit back and enjoy.
We need a second episode for just police / CSI shows. My favorite one is "Hawaii Five-O" (The newer one) where they have a whole desk as a computer, and they can just lay a phone on it, and somehow import the photos from the phone without doing anything on the phone. It's hilarious.
@@PrograErrorTo be fair, they jumped onto NFT's first and then gen A.I. lol. They were all in on NFT's for a bit. Strange how they haven't mentioned those in a while....
@@ChaseSchleich the gen Ai is the one that broke the camel's back for me. To me that was treason to the fellow creatives, to quote the ILM model shop oldies during the Star Wars sequel, “they went to the dark side”.
For anyone wondering, 255 is the highest number you can get to in an 8-digit binary number without adding another digit (1111 1111), meaning it will overflow as it goes back down to 0 (0000 0000)
They silenced the K or the character didn't finish the word. The other f-bomb was cut, and Linus was bleeped. It only matters if it makes it in full into the transcript.
@@CoreyKearney only really matters if there are a lot of them or they are in the first 6(?) seconds of the video. You can drop occasional f-bombs without problems otherwise. the c-word will get you flagged for hate speech though. I'm guessing a lot of Australians have been getting banned lately. :)
The most surprising tech moment in movies I've seen was Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows. They were analyzing some not great footage off a VHS camcorder, someone asked if they could zoom in to see better. Tech guy was "Sure, it will be a few moments to redigitize the footage"... which actually makes some sense. Digitizing an analog recording is going to cause some loss of information, and sometimes that information is useful. But often lower settings will do the job, so you might just want to save some time. So the idea that he could redigitize at higher settings, and that this would *take some actual amount of time*, is plausible and might actually be useful.
But most movies and TV shows with similar scenes, they're not doing some process to the original recording to access more of the exisitng information, they're straight up magicking new information into the image and it happens instantly, they don't ever spend the time it would take to reprocess the original footage or access an already existing higher resolution video file.
I recall seeing such a "zoom in" scene in the X-flies (don't know which episode) from back when typical machines had about 4MB-16MB of RAM. The picture was on a scanner: and they simply re-scanned the image for every zoom level. Now with 4-16GB or RAM: one would simply scan the whole image in high resolution.
@@jamesphillips2285 It sucks that this is so badly represented so often. It can be done much more realistically than is typical without slowing down the narrative, and could even give writers a way to add obstacles if they need to "Sorry, at this point we're limited by the original footage".
@@annieworroll4373 I think they were stretching credulity in Blade Runner (1982) as well. With how much they zoomed in they would have been approaching the diffraction limit. Can't call them on resolution of the original: because it was the future (details unknown).
@@jamesphillips2285 future tech being involved does make some zoom nonsense a bit more plausible in context, and upscaling algorithms to fill in missing data would more reliably get something usable close to reality.
One of the fun things about tech stuff in shows in a lot of the writers know what’s going on and purposefully make tech stuff as bad as possible for fun.
"oh no I'm getting hacked" Solution: *unplug the PC* "hey I.T. department, can you report it as infected? And can you reinstall the image by Monday? Thank you."
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that he just came into Harry's and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS, and a Motec system exhaust.
I don't fully get it.... What came to mind was that it does not go above 255 because fan controls are 8-bit pwm geneartors.... but that does not really make sense, because the malware added a 0 to the Temperature value of the cpu..... In the film they were talking about cpu temp and not van speed values. So I'm a bit confused actually.
Came here to say this. I would love to see them comment on some scenes from that show. On the other end, any of the techy scenes from Arrow would be a laugh.
honestly it would be hard to pull really good POI scenes that would work in this video without just critiquing those ASI scenes which are more science fiction anyway, there are some questionable things but most questionable things are on the whole ASI plotpoint and most else is close to possible)
I have been racking my brain for the name of that show since I saw the post asking for suggestions for this last week. Silly tec aside it was a good show. Ty.
@@CoreyKearney im gonna again defend person of interest cause its not really silly tech its more a SCIFI at least the AI bits, it would be same saying Star treks enterprise is silly spaceship cause that thing is all sorts of impossible(specially from the modern movies)
@@bigpod Relax, the enterprise is a silly ship. That's coming from a major Trekkie. I liked POI, I liked the premise, and every day we get closer to that reality. but in 2011? no.
AND .... for the kicker! Since nuclear weapons had computerized fail-safes on them, we learned how to go all analog by cutting off all the wires to the high-explosives and rip out the fail-safe electronics and replace them with OTHER high current wires cut to ensure ALL cables in the primary were the same length and attached to a single high-current IGBT (Insulated Gate BiPolar Transistor) and ensure the same set of wires in the secondary were cut and re-soldered to a second IGBT so the explosives in each layer would fire at the same time to allow for a properly timed multi-staged detonation sequence within the explosive lens environments of the nuclear devices. We even knew HOW to take out and replace all the tampers with Very High Density Polyethylene and/or add pre-deployed and in-field-retrievable Tungsten Carbide neutron reflectors to create a better plasma compression system to increase total weapons yield OR create a dirtier nuclear weapon WHILE IN THE FIELD! This is in case we had to start a nuclear war on-the-fly in enemy territory! AND to bust bunkers wide open, we would flood whole floors or other nearby areas with water and dump phase change matter into the water which would suddenly freeze it solid and let the expansion of the water into ice within even WARM TROPICAL environments to cause a massive phase-change expansion in order to COMPRESS or SPLIT-OPEN solid steel and/or solid concrete bunkers and/or destroy other types of structures! V
If you haven't seen the show, in Space Force the satellites are named after bands - like Blue Oyster Cult. So that line is completely logical for the story.
Guarantee the PSU "hard drive" is because a director said "That's too small. I need something big and with cables so it looks like a computer part." Kinda like how a bomb needs to look like wires and a clock, not fertilizer and an arduino.
Also, if you're using it for nefarious purposes, you wouldn't put a timer on the explosive to let everyone know how long left till detonation.
@@aaronplays_I would. The Arduino would be programmed to generate a random time, at which the detonation occurs.
@@Lauren_C yeah, but would you show it to the explosive disposal team to let them know? You'd set a time for yourself to get to safety, but not make it easy for others to evacuate.
I agree with this hypothesis. Seems pretty likely for just a visual, especially in a time where less people would be readily aware of what those components look like.
@@aaronplays_ a displayed time can always be a red herring so it should always be treated as such, also if cutting a specific wire will diffuse a bomb then just cut them all at once, or just cut the battery, real ones are basically sealed shut really hard
Wendel: Help. I've been kidnapped and forced to watch bad tech on tv.
Blink twice if you need help
This was my very first thought too.
To be fair, I think Wendel has the "I've been kidnapped" look in almost all videos, especially on on other peoples channels lol
And he doesnt even get an robot friends
He'll be fine. Only needs a random closet, server rack or toaster oven to teleport home or to Steve's offices at Gamers Nexus.
I know it´s old AF, but... the IT CROWD: "what OS are you using?" "It´s VISTA" "We´re gonna die"
What about the one where they convinced their boss that she broke the 'Internet'.
Have you tried to turn it off and on again
You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences.
@@jens_petsch I loved the one episode where they had the phone on a recording just saying that
IT crowd never gets old
You need to check out "Firewall" (2006). Harrison Ford as an IT security expert is the least believable thing in the world. Best scene of the movie: He connects the scan device of a fax machine to his daughter's MP3 player to store information from a display he attaches the scan unit to. My brain melted when I saw it in the theater.
my brain melted from reading this
some MP3 are also USB drives you put your songs into and it reads from the same drive
@@xugroyeah, afaik you could even do this with old iPods. But even so it still wouldn’t work
"2 of the blinky boxes to go" probably the most accurate line of the scene!
no the most accurate line is “fuck Microsoft!!”
@@sulaimanalhamdan597 "of the scene"
I actually like the fact that the IT expert takes advice from the guy (her boss, probably) who only knows that they're looking at "blinky boxes".
It do be like that in strictly hierarchical and authoritarian organizations! 😂
well that's Nathan Fillion for you - always a consummate professional.
@@heiseheise You'd think the guy who turned himself into a living robot might know more about viruses 😂
18:33 "Cars are the best thing... other than family" had me bust out a laugh 😂
Edit: The timestamp changed since the video was released.
Your timestamp should be 18:33
It probably changed due to youtube ad injection, timestamps will be 100% useless pretty soon.
@@Skagzi1la Yeah, timestamps and share links will no longer work correctly.
They really want people to switch to TikTok.
@@Skagzi1launtil youtube makes comments not the same for everyone depending pn the injected ad
i kinda expected that joke though
Department of redundancy department
I'm putting that on my resume.
@@chazeroni455 Twice of course
That had me reeling 😂
@@CarlosPCmx dont forget. there must be at least a third copy off side and offline.
Isn´t that pretty much all of them?
_"There is a computer virus in the bones"_ is such a funny sentence
"Of course! The Computer Virus is in the Lake!" - Xavier Renegade Angel
Imagining Luke and Linus just grabbing Wendell all like "Hey can you do this video with us real quick?" makes me chuckle.
Wendell had a video yesterday with Luke in the background.
Most likely they were talking and then when they went to record the video they asked if he wanna go with them
@@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water Usually it's much healthier to say no when a couple asks you if you want to come back to their hotel room to film a video together. Especially if they plan on uploading it to the internet.
This was what I was thinking
@@Azrichiel if it's Luke and Linus, health be damned, my body is ready!
Should've had Die Hard 4 where they somehow overclock a PSU, via code injection, to have the potential explosive power of ~5 dynamites blowing up an entire room or house.
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was it like that? i always assumed these systems were provided to them by the villian with the exploding box pre-installed.. though i haven't seen the movie in a while
the only excuse they could have is if its a dod burn vault.
A friend of mine blow up the caps in his PSU. Don´t know quite why the blow up. they just did randomly. It was a quite large explosion (The MB was fine)
@@sorcierx2604they could have had some sort of fuse tied to opening task manager or checking for a certain signal. Kind of how Samsung has the security fuse for the bootloader in their phones that if that’s blown some of the hardware stops working.
6:40 - "Tool" and "Trojan" are both considered acceptable. In fact, unless it was a "true trojan" where someone executed it manually after being tricked into running it thinking it was something else, "tool" is more common.
6:24
he didn’t unplug the computer, he unplugged the monitor lol
"Away from the eyes, away from the mind." Works with animals, children, hell - even most adults. Why not with the two idiots using one keyboard 😂
the guys a double agent
Could be 2 in 1s? Lol.
I've heard that that scene was written to be a parody of bad tech scenes.
At my last job my supervisor legit thought the monitor was a computer. I had 2 screens and got a memory error that popped up on one and froze the pc. When I asked them to call IT, this person looked me dead in the face and said "the error is on this computer not THAT ONE" pointing at the empty screen that didn't have the error and asked me to keep working.
“It wouldn’t catch fire”
Launch day 7800x3d, loose 4090, Gigabyte p750, fractal torrent fan controller. “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
Nzxt case 😂
Crappy PSUs.
Any Intel CPU
12vhpwr third party no-name adaptors 🔥
YEAH i had a pc set it's self on fire so yes it can happen mostly from THE PSU
My favourite tech scene is how in Agents of Shield they used a CPU Cooler to blow up underground shelter.
YES! I was hoping someone else had noticed that!
Really! That's the CPU's job, run it without a cooler and watch the shelter melt.
that just sounds like a Smart prop guy who knows how to get free overpriced pc parts lol
I had to pause this scene and explain how funny I thought it was to my wife.
Wendell is one of those people that knows alot, you just have to ask the right questions. Id love to just sit down and pick his brain about tech for hours.
Mr. Robot! It is probably the most accurate mainstream show I've seen. Especially the pilot.
matrix is pretty interesting too
i stoped watching when he said he is more of a gnome guy
I work in cyber security. I could not make it past the pilot. NCIS I know was terrible but Mr robot got 95% and it bugged me
@@doublej42 They have to be careful to not show how to 100% do this completely illegal thing, which is why they'll either miss out a couple of steps or gloss over the process. For example, in 'Breaking Bad' they didn't show all the steps required to make meth.
For me personally, I prefer "Yeah, that's pretty close to how it's done." to "No, that's not how any of it works at all."
In The Amazing World of Gumball S03E32 ("The Safety"), Gumball's sister Anais explaining how she hacked the security systems was surprisingly realistic. The most accurate hacking scene in television history may just be from a kids' cartoon. There should be a clip of it if you search up "Gumball's Sister Anais Knows Hacking"
Absolutely needs to happen. That show is wildly underrated and surprisingly subversive.
No scenes from the greatest hacking movie ever? Hackers. Actually I guess it is the perfect movie with no flaws.
I see you are a man of culture
I was fully expecting that movie to be in the video as well, but Linus has already roasted the hell out of it
Who Am I
Just my thought! Not so ZeroCool😂
could be worse, i was watching "hacker" last night and omf.... it was painful, them showing html = hacking
@6:30 we still call it a Remote Access Tool in our SOC department, as a RAT can still be a legitimate tool (Remote Desktop, Teamviewer, Logmein, Bomgar are considered RAT's but are used for legit support purposes)
Laughs in dark comet
Yeah nobody calls it remote access trojan. This video is the first time ever, I have heard that acronym
Those are called RMM these days. But yeah linus is wrong about almost everything infosec related 😂
That’s because that’s what it is called. A Trojan is a remote access tool. I’m glad someone else said something.
@@rooboy69 Right? A trojan would expect the user to install it, while RATs are usually the payload of a virus or other hacking activity
Okay, this was legit informative - definitely needs a part 2. Oh and the Department of Redundancy Department joke was underrated af.
Needs Mr. Robot in the part2!
I second this, I want to see more, this is so informative and funny.
18:53 LOL - I am watching this video wearing a T-Shirt with "Department of Redundancy Department" written on it :D
I'm sitting here thinking: why does it say Department twice... ohhhhh... (I did not get a good night of sleep :P)
PLEASE MAKE THIS A SERIES, THANK YOU
Yep, make it like the car mechanics on Donut watching Fast & Furious for the cringe.
15:31 he probably just unplugged the monitor, not the computer... 😄
Well he is a boomer, so that kind of makes sense
He did, but that still fixes the problem because if you can't see it, it's not happening.
@@ChaseSchleich Schrodinger's hacking
@@ark_knight if a hacker hacks your system and copies your data but doesn't do anything with it, are you really hacked?
the SWORDFISH scene where the hacker had a limited time to hack some governmental thing while being pole danced was awesome too!
I was going to suggest Swordfish. The whole hacking scene where he spins around in his chair whilst on a computer with about 17 screens made my cringe gland go into overdrive!
Just to help you in the future, that is what is called a "lap dance." I get your confusion with thinking the pole referred to your Johnson, but no.
hehe - pole danced :)
“Added in post” was a stroke of genius from Wendel
The most accurate hacking in a series I've seen is Mr. Robot. They've clearly consulted with professional security experts/(ethical) hackers, cause that show was on point in most things.
I'm not certain but I think the guy that its about was an actual hacker and he helped with making the movie or something?
@@chrissametrinequartz9389Na Rami Malek is just a good actor. I believe he's said in interviews he didn't know what some of the technical stuff in the script was or even meant. But they had good direction for that show so he played it well.
@@chrissametrinequartz9389 they also stole one of the hacks/vulnerabilities from PirateSoftware while it wasn't published yet.
The NCIS scene where she says "I'm being hacked" is so bad, but the emotion it captures is very accurate to how I felt when I realized my email and GBoard were hacked. The chaos was all internal, but it was a fight.
How does one manage to get their phones keyboard hacked
Naaaa, then both of them start typing really fast to "unhack" it lol
They cut the best line in that scene: "What is that, a video game?"
So, as someone who has consulted on one of the projects, yes transport departments are using boxes similar to that that monitor traffic by watching for nearby Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices and counting them up. Before the bluetooth randomisation stuff, you could get an estimate of traffic speed/flow by watching the same mac address traverse a city. Now its more just about aggregate data, how long each mac is seen for, how many macs at any point, etc, to get an idea of peak and minimum traffic levels and how much a road is used.
Can we all agree that the 'Fast and Furious Universe' is now and forever referred to as simply 'The FU'
Is the F for Family??
All the cars from Ford, Jeep, Toyota, and VW had the same internal code for their freaking autonomous driving systems, and these individuals possessed the script to instantly hack into and redirect them-truly believable
U wanna get some fear.....
Look for GeoHotz (Yes that guy from jailbreak iPhone and Sony) and go to his company page (comma ai)
tesla and ford and audi have all had claimed bug bounties that allow remote control of a car companies like audi use two ecus now as a protection where the top layer is mainly reporting data and the 2nd is your control system and mapping wont work unless a rotating key is checked. I actually has exp with a bounty for Bluelink NDA issue alllowed me to start my own car just by knowing the vin with no auth needed CVE-2017-6052
Not just believable, it's happened. Look up the 2015 Jeep Cherokee
It somehow overrides your hydraulic brakes too. That being said, my car had its ABS go nuts, and the effectively made it unable to stop. So I guess if this hacker messed with that, they could effectively disable your ability to hit the brake.
var brand = getBrand();
if (brand == "ford") execute("ford.script");
if (brand == "jeep") execute("jeep.script");
....
I don't see the problem of making a script for targeting many hardware platforms.
Not an IT failure, but I found it hysterical when I saw the villain in the blue beetle movie use a LG wing as her "futuristic controller device".
Sure beats using a 15 year Logitech gaming controller to navigate a deep sea submarine capsule.
You were able to pick just a single episode of CSI Cyber? That's impressive, as every single episode I spent more time looking at my palm than the TV screen.
The pilot episode with the 60s carnival ride having and using an ethernet serial port and providing a 3D overlay and diagnostic was it for me. I turned it off after that episode, canceled my series recording on my DirecTV and never looked back. I'm glad it got marginally better, but I'm not sorry I didn't watch that series.
@@CareBear-Killer it only lasted 2 season even tho Ratings were decent for CSI show but considering at the time Original CSI and i think CSI : Miami and NY were still on it did not hold a candle to the OGs and now it is a shame CBS canceled CSI: Vegas Revival after 3 seasons as it went back to old formula and was good and had a good Seasons Plot for both seasons like they used to do.
@@notuptome I was sad about the CSI: Vegas cancellation. The revival was pretty good.
5:50
Shit like that happens because producers or directors say "that doesn't look 'techy' enough, where's the wires? Get something with wires hanging out of it!"
Still crazy how the fast and furious franchise went from street races and car culture to 7 generic action movies
Yeah, there are not many franchises that can sustain quality. F&F3 Tokyo Drift was a rare one, and it's sad to see how low subsequent ones have been.
That they are still somewhat fun for me, is just down to my 'tune in, drop out' mode for most movies.
I stopped watching them after number 4 or 5. They needed to win a Porsche and the scene cut to them driving it into the garage. THEY SKIPPED THE RACE.
@@lozodidit Tbf, their intent to show was that it was a foregone conclusion that would win, and even by the second movie they were heavily using cgi for the races.
I still liked second one, but that was already less about the racing.
@@lozodidit it was for a police station raid but why would they need the Porsche in the first place as the car they raced against it had to be faster in the Brazil street race anyway making it all redundant.
Yeah, I watched the first 3, and then I stopped for them turning completely ridiculous. It has become absolute braindead popcorn action crap.
Modern cars like new Teslas for example do actually use Bluetooth LE for the TPMS.
In the TV series "Limitless", there was one scene where the main character was on an international phone call, speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese, while the person on the other end of the line was speaking in Vietnamese and earlier in the episode it was mentioned that he was calling someone in Thailand.
MR WORLDWIDE
In NUMB3RS, two 'brothers' who supposedly grew up together in California, had a telephone conversation where they each pronounce the city "San Pedro" *differently*. 😅
To be a bit fair, if any of them are multilingual, having a cross-language conversation isn't all that hard, and many will mix vocabulary whenever they feel like it.
20:30 definitely check Mr. Robot series. It has one of (if not the best) depictions of "hacking" ever, especially in first two seasons.
Mr. Robot is the one that surprised me back in the day. They must have hired some real nerds on that show! 👌
I was looking for this comment. You are absolutely right, that show is the most realistic and I don't think it could be even better
Mr. Robot was really great, they actually have shown a bash and pretty realistic hacks! Unfortunate that the later season focused on his mental disorder...
They had several tech enthusiasts, network engineers and hackers on staff to help make sure they got it as real as possible without making it too technical for the general audience. I think they found the perfect level of both in that show. Even the episode with the hard drive data recovery was mostly sound.
They ripped of some real nerds, ask Thor.
@@Blex_040 Ok, but as a TV show, that final season was fucking phenomenal lol
I'm surprised the infamous "Gigabyte of RAM should do the trick" wasn't looked at.
_Holy shit I completely forgot about that!_ 🤣🤣🤣
Yes! Please do another one of these. I was shaking my head so much with each fail, it's a wonder it didn't fall off my neck.
The way they just kidnapped Wendel and forced him to be in their video
... is there a rest of your sentence?
Wendell is one of the best ;D
@@deamon6681 no like to keep things brief
Well, to be honest
Ok but why didn't you finish your
On the car thing, not just self driving cars but lots of recent cars and especially semis have wifi hotspots blasting out their AP name and mac. I live near an interstate and my Unifi system records hundreds of “nearby networks” every day from this.
RAT can also be abbreviated as a Remote Access Tool, since the stub or the infected (and supposedly FUD or fully undetectable) file that is being executed is the trojan itself, hence why they called it Remote Access Tool. I mean surely we can describe it as a Remote Access Trojan but nothing that he said was wrong.
"look at that spread"
I mean that be one argument that FF is set in an alternative universe, where a minigun with 1 meter long barrel on a mount got more spread than a saw off shotgun
I would love to see them react to Mr.Robot series
But they did pretty much all good, as they had an actual tech consultant on show.
Oh, yes, one of the best "good movie tech" examples 👌
I was thinking the same thing.
Mr. Robot, at least the first season, is as close as it gets to 'quite plausible' without becoming too boring. Nothing too drastic to pick apart there, except maybe some... questionable performances.
@@alhadinon Trinity and the power station, in the second movie, using nmap
Fun fact: The transport traffic monitoring systems actually DO sniff out Bluetooth MAC addresses as most cars have it broadcasting. They then compare the same MAC address for next time it's detected to figure out the average travel time over that distance.
Correct. There used to be a writeup over at Houston Transtar that describes how this technology works. It will first try to detect electronic tolling tags and use the broadcast serial number as the tracker. If that wasn't available, it will look for all bluetooth MAC addresses and compares them to a database to see if that one has been active on the network within a certain amount of time. The cycle repeats for the next transponder.
Personal Favorite scene from "Sneakers"
Getting through the electronically locked door.
Shame you never hear about Sneakers very much, but I do still see it mentioned every once in a while.
First off yes, this needs to be a series, secondly pick apart Mr Robot!
"Other than family" once again proving Luke is the comedy MVP.
You guys missed a perfect ace Ventura joke with the first bones segment. "It's in the bone! It's in the bone! "
Would love to see them comment on the Zoolander one. "The files are in the computer."
Hey! You guys forgot about Mr. Robot, possibly one of the best depictions of hacking in media ever done.
Well, it's quite perfect tbh. Real os, real commands.
Came here to say this, might be nice to pick out some stand out scenes
yeah but it some unrealistic aspects
I will never forget the fact that there is an "Activate Windows" watermark in the new ASU ad, the second I noticed it I could not unsee it
Gotta do Under Siege 2's infamous line: "a gigabyte of RAM should do the trick."
Until 6:51 I was absolutely convinced this linus was not in the same space as the other 2 hosts
Okay, the one from Space Force at 17:06 was really funny.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
There's a guy who does this with firefighting shows but he greenscreens himself into the scene as an actor complaining about "you dont leap frog with the cervical collar bag to clear a mine field!"
The space force one is legendary
Can't tell you how many times I was doing an assignment, playing a game or just doing shit on my computer before getting abruptly shut down by a magnificent windows update which if (according to microsoft) isnt installed within 3 femtoseconds of its release, my current non-updated windows install will release gonorrhoea into every orifice of my apartment block and my small hometown within a matter of minutes
Yeah … the Windows update scene was most realistic. Apparently happened to all of us (being forced to use Windows on company machines). 😄
@@RECURSIVE_MEMORY_LOGIC helps alot if you update it manually more than once a year
The unbelievable part was it gave a time remaining
@@RECURSIVE_MEMORY_LOGIC Lucily my company doesn't have a policy that stops you from erasing your system but still I feel your pain. There is no mallware for windows worse than windows
@@usseg 612 ( for those that know)
You could do a whole episode like this JUST covering films and TV shows using "Zoom and enhance" in detective/investigative context.
Yes with AI you can technically now improve the quality and resolution of a low quality picture, but that is only educated guess work and isn't going to just create evidence out of nowhere.
You could then wrap it up with the zoom and enhance scene from Red Dward, which is a very funny parady specifically on this.
Creating evidence out of nowhere would open some legal shenanigans. Some lawyer tried a different kind of computer trick to help out a case he was taking but it got him into trouble. Basically he asked ChatGPT to find some legal cases that would be relevant to his clients, but the program gave him cases were completely made up on the spot. He didn't know they were made up at the time, and tried to use those fake cases for his clients defense in court.
Part 2 needs to include 'Hackerman' from Kung Fury.
Yea, it's pure satire but I wanna see Linus' reaction.
My favourite movie, the anime "Belle: the dragon and the freckled princess" has gotten a lot about the tech they show right. Down to the hard drive clickedy-clacking away in the background when the room is silent and Hiro's computer is running on full tilt doing a search.
You mean the movie that had the terrible PHOTOSHOP ENHANCE scene?
@@gippygames
Hey, it's kinda science fiction. The whole movie is built up around a Metaverse in which you control your character with mind control earplugs.
Also, with current AI tech you probably could overenhance images pretty easily. Although I'm not sure you'd get anything helpful from it.
This was so much fun. Definitely do more of this. I'd even be interested in presenting real tech similar in concept to what's in the show.
I used to be really into a popular UK murder detective drama called Vera and would watch the new episodes every week they came out with my Dad. However, one time on an episode which I was quite invested in because the mystery involved the perpetrator posting about his crimes on a libel-safe analogue of Facebook, the whole plot got ruined for me. After the police started _tracing_ the person who was posting to the social media site, they suddenly burst in with this breakthrough that they got the perpetrator's IP address. Vera then rallies the police team to make a move but not before delivering the slightly cringeworthy line of "(...) and get me that IP address", as though it was some physical address she could direct her team to.
The whole detective team then swoop into a university campus dorm room where the perpetrator is sat behind a computer screen, writing about his upcoming exploits. After being apprehended, he asks how he was caught, to which Detective Chief Inspector Vera says "we got the IP address of the account making the posts which pointed to your specific computer", meaning it was the discovery which underpinned the entire episode's conclusion - despite being a public IP address on a university campus network. Big L moment for ITV's production team.
The most incredible thing about that summary is that Vera would know what an IP address was.
(for non-brits: vera is a 50-60 something white woman who shouts while being scottish)
Also, there must surely be something in Silent Witness these days.
Or today's version of Murder she wrote! Look to British TV for a lot of criticism! At least they (usually) make it sound more believable
@@Metal_Maxine Isn't that how Scots normally talk though?
I remember seeing that episode. As a handwavy way of justifying it in the context of the episode, theoretically something similar with extra steps could be possible if there were enough logs kept (although explaining it in full would probably take too much time and interest away from the story).
1. Get the server logs from the website and correlate the account holder with their public IP address.
2. The internet provider should have logs of who was assigned the address at the time (e.g. Australia has enough metadata retention laws that those types of logs would probably exist, not sure about the UK).
3. Find that the address was used by the uni. At each layer of NAT, find the group of devices that were on the network for all messages / posts being made. Hopefully there is only one device left by the end. If proxy servers and firewalls are being used, the logs may be able to show that the device accessed the IP address of the social media platform around those times. The DNS server used might also be able to show this if a local one is present.
4. Because this is a corporate style network, my guess is that it should be possible to correlate devices with the account / login details used to access the network.
5. Pounce.
I'm in no way a professional, so this situation may not be possible or feasible.
I had just started watching a corridor video when this came out lol
Qr link is dead, I expected a Rick roll. 😂 4:35
I wanted to be Rick Roll’d too
Yeah, add me to the disappointed crew
Likewise. I hope someone from the early crew can tell us that we missed out on.
The stupid thing about the "Bone Virus" is that while it's possible for "accidental" vulnerabilities to happen (though pretty much any of that data should be properly contained and sterilized to prevent it, accidents can happen) they sort of imply in the episode that the virus was "planted" in the bones which is just wildly impossible.
Stuff like ">start counterstrike" is dumb, but more forgivable since it's a reference, but this is a good example of "forced pandering" and its pitfalls. Frankly the best "counterstrike" is to literally cut the connection off, the fact is they shouldn't really need to do a full shut down of the server to prevent access... but instead "nuke it" is pretty easy for americans to understand I guess.
Code written on top of another code is a relatively safe way to explain it to people without too much jargon so I'd give them the pass on that, the IP's being fake is totally fair, the fact is if they had a single "real" IP in it, ARG detectives would basically DDOS it trying to get details about the next season or something. Bluetooth is a pretty easy short hand for wireless signals, most people that don't understand that it's a branded technology think that ALL wireless connections are either Wifi or Bluetooth, so I understand people making that mistake... (I've seen people call wireless charging "Bluetooth charging") but it's the kind of mistake that doesn't really have value, it's not "easier" to explain a wireless connection as Bluetooth when you can just say "wireless" and be more accurate while getting the same point across... unless you're getting paid to say Bluetooth.
I have no comment on the "meme" scene really, honestly the trope about hackers typing at mach 6 is probably one of the most boring things people get wrong. The only thing about that scene that still bothers me is that... he definitely unplugs the monitor, MAYBE he pulls the plug on the entire power strip, but even then... the information being stolen isn't being kept on a server somewhere? I do like how this show trends towards the intention of making REALLY dumb "mistakes" (like 2 people 1 keyboard) but is doing it on purpose (much like they do when they step into other "professional" territories) and the fact that the old guy pulls the plug on it is kind of the obvious answer to "i'm being hacked" which shows they DO actually know SOMETHING when they wrote this.
Dell probably paid top dollar to be on that desk to be the "god's eye" btw, this is the things I notice. There's a decent chance they have to be very careful how much they get accurate with this stuff because of that sponsorship, something to keep in mind when you DO see some of these mistakes, it's very likely stipulations or directions for branded content.
Space force is a comedy, I can forgive the inaccuracy of group policy protection or the fact that he's probably got 10 computers he's logged into CURRENTLY to go and do the calculations on if he actually needed to because the point of the scene is F*Micro$oft.
Yeah, the Federal Department of Incessant Federal Redundancy's is crazy. I mean yeah, I can forgive not knowing where a motorcade is in a big city, information on it might not have been shared about it properly and I get that. Otherwise their universe is so ridiculous that it's hard to believe that they don't have magic powers, rendering all of our understanding of their technology completely useless.
When I was younger, I avoided tech movies like Firewall 2006 because I knew the technical side would be all wrong. Today I just say to myself "They don't understand but this is the direction they need for the story." (it is usually the MacGuffin). As long as you understand that it is fiction, just sit back and enjoy.
WE NEED MOAR OF THIS
We need a second episode for just police / CSI shows. My favorite one is "Hawaii Five-O" (The newer one) where they have a whole desk as a computer, and they can just lay a phone on it, and somehow import the photos from the phone without doing anything on the phone. It's hilarious.
You should make Tech Beginners React and they just say "I dont know... probably could work like that"
8:27 i dont know why playing some counterstrike would help in this situation, but i love me a good deathmatch on dust 2
Who else wants to see a collab between VFX Artists reacts and Tech Guys reacts???
Personally, I don't care about them after they jumped on the damn gen Ai stuff. But sure cool...
@@PrograErrorTo be fair, they jumped onto NFT's first and then gen A.I. lol. They were all in on NFT's for a bit. Strange how they haven't mentioned those in a while....
@@ChaseSchleich the gen Ai is the one that broke the camel's back for me. To me that was treason to the fellow creatives, to quote the ILM model shop oldies during the Star Wars sequel, “they went to the dark side”.
For anyone wondering, 255 is the highest number you can get to in an 8-digit binary number without adding another digit (1111 1111), meaning it will overflow as it goes back down to 0 (0000 0000)
LMG letting The space force episode drop a lengthy f bomb without a bleep button was impressive
They silenced the K or the character didn't finish the word. The other f-bomb was cut, and Linus was bleeped. It only matters if it makes it in full into the transcript.
@@CoreyKearney only really matters if there are a lot of them or they are in the first 6(?) seconds of the video. You can drop occasional f-bombs without problems otherwise. the c-word will get you flagged for hate speech though. I'm guessing a lot of Australians have been getting banned lately. :)
The most surprising tech moment in movies I've seen was Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows. They were analyzing some not great footage off a VHS camcorder, someone asked if they could zoom in to see better. Tech guy was "Sure, it will be a few moments to redigitize the footage"... which actually makes some sense. Digitizing an analog recording is going to cause some loss of information, and sometimes that information is useful. But often lower settings will do the job, so you might just want to save some time.
So the idea that he could redigitize at higher settings, and that this would *take some actual amount of time*, is plausible and might actually be useful.
But most movies and TV shows with similar scenes, they're not doing some process to the original recording to access more of the exisitng information, they're straight up magicking new information into the image and it happens instantly, they don't ever spend the time it would take to reprocess the original footage or access an already existing higher resolution video file.
I recall seeing such a "zoom in" scene in the X-flies (don't know which episode) from back when typical machines had about 4MB-16MB of RAM.
The picture was on a scanner: and they simply re-scanned the image for every zoom level.
Now with 4-16GB or RAM: one would simply scan the whole image in high resolution.
@@jamesphillips2285 It sucks that this is so badly represented so often. It can be done much more realistically than is typical without slowing down the narrative, and could even give writers a way to add obstacles if they need to "Sorry, at this point we're limited by the original footage".
@@annieworroll4373 I think they were stretching credulity in Blade Runner (1982) as well. With how much they zoomed in they would have been approaching the diffraction limit.
Can't call them on resolution of the original: because it was the future (details unknown).
@@jamesphillips2285 future tech being involved does make some zoom nonsense a bit more plausible in context, and upscaling algorithms to fill in missing data would more reliably get something usable close to reality.
Definitely gotta check out Mr. Robot!
00:07 And I was just about to say something about CorridorCrew
One of the fun things about tech stuff in shows in a lot of the writers know what’s going on and purposefully make tech stuff as bad as possible for fun.
"oh no I'm getting hacked"
Solution: *unplug the PC* "hey I.T. department, can you report it as infected? And can you reinstall the image by Monday? Thank you."
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that he just came into Harry's and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS, and a Motec system exhaust.
Series of this please!
17:05 Crowdstrike said hold my beer XD
They should look at Mr Robot!
Please make this a series… I died😭😭
the 255 joke is actually hilarious
I don't fully get it....
What came to mind was that it does not go above 255 because fan controls are 8-bit pwm geneartors.... but that does not really make sense, because the malware added a 0 to the Temperature value of the cpu..... In the film they were talking about cpu temp and not van speed values.
So I'm a bit confused actually.
@@c2vi_dev yeah it was the 8 bit joke pretty sure, idk if it was to do with the fans tho
Definitely need a second video of this, maybe with some that actually have good tech scenes
A series that I've found it hard to criticise is Mr. Robot. Would be interesting to see this picked apart?
How about some Mr. Robot?
Came here to say this. I would love to see them comment on some scenes from that show.
On the other end, any of the techy scenes from Arrow would be a laugh.
20:11 there's people in those cars, I laughed so hard. Dude just blowing them to bits
I want more of anything with Wendell
As an IT Manager this was extremely fun - if you don't make more I'll find you.
Please make another one of these, loved it.
The computer catching on fire from a virus is like the tech nerd version of the "Danger to Manifold" scene in Fast and Furious
smh not even activated windows on the pc on the sponsor segment at 0:40
For the Space Force scene, I had great timing to watch this about 5 days after the Microsoft/Crowdstrike outage. That was great
You definitely have to see Mr. Robot
0:32 RUclipsrs and streamers are INDEED cats
So many of these remind me of a Jurassic Park Rifftrax quote: "Computers always work well enough to tell you that they aren't working"...
I think the following video could contain the series of Person of Interest (2011)
honestly it would be hard to pull really good POI scenes that would work in this video without just critiquing those ASI scenes which are more science fiction anyway, there are some questionable things but most questionable things are on the whole ASI plotpoint and most else is close to possible)
I have been racking my brain for the name of that show since I saw the post asking for suggestions for this last week. Silly tec aside it was a good show. Ty.
@@CoreyKearney im gonna again defend person of interest cause its not really silly tech its more a SCIFI at least the AI bits, it would be same saying Star treks enterprise is silly spaceship cause that thing is all sorts of impossible(specially from the modern movies)
@@bigpod Relax, the enterprise is a silly ship. That's coming from a major Trekkie. I liked POI, I liked the premise, and every day we get closer to that reality. but in 2011? no.
next video please include Person of Interest (2011) and more episodes of csi caber man i mis that show
AND .... for the kicker! Since nuclear weapons had computerized fail-safes on them, we learned how to go all analog by cutting off all the wires to the high-explosives and rip out the fail-safe electronics and replace them with OTHER high current wires cut to ensure ALL cables in the primary were the same length and attached to a single high-current IGBT (Insulated Gate BiPolar Transistor) and ensure the same set of wires in the secondary were cut and re-soldered to a second IGBT so the explosives in each layer would fire at the same time to allow for a properly timed multi-staged detonation sequence within the explosive lens environments of the nuclear devices. We even knew HOW to take out and replace all the tampers with Very High Density Polyethylene and/or add pre-deployed and in-field-retrievable Tungsten Carbide neutron reflectors to create a better plasma compression system to increase total weapons yield OR create a dirtier nuclear weapon WHILE IN THE FIELD!
This is in case we had to start a nuclear war on-the-fly in enemy territory!
AND to bust bunkers wide open, we would flood whole floors or other nearby areas with water and dump phase change matter into the water which would suddenly freeze it solid and let the expansion of the water into ice within even WARM TROPICAL environments to cause a massive phase-change expansion in order to COMPRESS or SPLIT-OPEN solid steel and/or solid concrete bunkers and/or destroy other types of structures!
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16:52 'recalculate the new thruster data and relay it to BlueOysterCult immediately"
Dead, laughed so hard i stopped breathing for a bit
If you haven't seen the show, in Space Force the satellites are named after bands - like Blue Oyster Cult. So that line is completely logical for the story.