Hollywood, Here Is How You Make Movie Hacking More Fun

Hacking in Hollywood movies is not just completely unrealistic, but it isn’t very entertaining either. Just stupid.

A lot of stuff cannot be presented realistically in movies because that would kill the entertainment value. As a kid, I didn’t understand this when I asked my parents why Donald Duck never had to sit on the toilet. In a good story, you have to cut out the parts that don’t add to it. Thus calls for realism in movies often miss the mark. Realism has to be balanced against the story one is trying to tell and the need to entertain or intrigue the viewer or reader.

Yet the infuriating thing about hacking in Hollywood movies is that a more realistic depiction of hacking would in fact have been far more entertaining and easier to grasp for the viewers.

Phishing is a common social engineering hacker tactic. Sending emails or faking web sites to look like the real thing, so users get tricked into writing passwords and logins on fake site or to install trojan horses or other malware.

Social Engineering

Real hackers don’t type frenetically on a keyboard to break into a system. And stopping the hacking doesn’t mean typing even faster on the keyboard. For instance, if you read any of the books by infamous old-school hacker Kevin Mitnick, you will…