It seems like in every movie/TV show, all you need to do is find a guy who looks funny and has played video games for a decade; he can:
Hack in to your bank and transfer funds into your account from a large corporation.
Sneak into your company’s computer and up your salary and add vacation days.
Get video from every surveillance camera on earth, just to see what’s going on.
Get yourself a PhD from Harvard officially put in their records for anyone to verify.
I want that hacker to come to my house for a day or so - there is a case of free beer and unlimited Cheetos in it for ya - hell, I’ll even spring for pizza.
Let me know when you can stop by.
You missed out on “Create a 3D simulation of the most likely outcome, in half an hour” and “Enhance blurry pixelated images into perfect clarity with a click of one button” all while never touching a mouse.
Oh my god! They’re hacking my firewall! I’ll have to break their encryption algorithm and reformat their database! types really fast Whew! They nearly logged my IP and brute-forced my protocols!
Ugh why WHY am I having flashbacks to that horrible episode of NCIS where they were ‘tracking’ some ‘hacker’ who was killing people? It was full of technobabble that sounded good, but to anyone with any IT knowledge at all it was random buzzwords all thrown together.
I supossed if you hit the hacker over the head he would instantly become unconscious, but you wouldnt have to worry, 'cause if you threw water on him he’d be OK again.
I remember reading a book by Robin Cook who writers medical thriller (His most famous was Coma)
Anyway in it he writes about some woman and their friend trying to break into a computer guy explains how this is traceable and in every turn this computer guy explains it well. So the girls get hired on there, and Mr Computer Guy informs them of what they need to do and how they’ll be traced. And I was impressed at how well he recognized how it wouldn’t work in real life. It was funny at the end the girls are done in because they steal a key card and don’t realize that the key card is, well traceable… LOL And it recorded all their movements.