[ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

[Jim Kinney]

The book on that was "The Cuckoo's Egg". Great read! A $0.05 discrepancy in time vs. billing leads to a romp through non-existent security, hardware hacking data lines, beaurocracy impediments, and  persistence.

On September 25, 2018 8:27:41 AM EDT, "Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Documentaries comment reminds me of an old one called "The CIA, the KGB
>and Me" about a guy who discovered East German hackers accessing CIA
>computer via his mainframe.  He found them due to the fact there was
>"time" used on the computer he couldn't figure out to which department
>in his company it should be billed.   That appeals to me as an ex-bean
>counter as well as an IT person.  
>
>Hollywood movies being clueless:  The original Jurassic Park where the
>little girl is going to undo what the professional admin did to
>sabotage the computers.   A funny moment though was when she sits down
>and says something like "Ugh, it's UNIX".
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Simba via Ale
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>
>Oh man you should see it! Cereal Killer is my fave ;)
>
>Sandra Bullock is cool. The only thing I liked about that film if I
>remember...
>
>Mr. Robot may be an exception but it's lightyears ahead of what the
>1990s were like. And it also a phenomenal production in general, those
>two things seem to go hand in hand.
>
>I don't expect folks who make their careers in filmography or sound or
>casting actors and so forth to be computer experts, but I have a lot
>more respect for productions which consult with experts for accuracy.
>
>Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
>https://keybase.io/simbalion
>
>"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
>
>On 9/24/18 11:54 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:43 PM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org 
>> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Yeah but The Net was stupid. Hackers was at least funny :) All
>the
>>     characters are lovable and it doesn't even try to take the
>technology
>>     seriously.
>> 
>>     Of course it's worth remembering that back then literally none of
>those
>>     "hollywood" people knew anything about computers. They weren't
>trying to
>>     be ironic or anything, it just turned out that way.
>> 
>> 
>> I never saw Hackers. I'm not going to argue the merits of The Net. I 
>> didn't particularly like it, but I didn't particularly hate it
>either. 
>> I do kind of like Sandra Bullock though.
>> 
>> Alas, those Hollywood people haven't improved much. There are some 
>> fairly respectable representations of technology in the media now,
>but 
>> there's also still a lot of crap.
>> 
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