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Posted on: February 8, 2009
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We’ve all seen the ridiculous attempts made by hollywood to try and portray hacker’s realisticly in their movies. And as I’m sure all of you have concluded, they absolutely….FAIL. For those of you who havn’t seen any, follow this link to see a full list of movies. Some of these will be totally absurd to those of you who know hacking while others will be somewhat realistic.


1. Get lots of computer screens and stack them up to create a sort of shell around you. What you would use them for, I don’t know, but you need them.

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2. Type at ridiculous speeds, pressing multiple keys at the same time, and take a while at that same speed to type up short few lettered words.

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3. Never use your mouse. Do all your hacking via the keyboard. Once you have gotten through all the “firewalls” and other junk, pause, pick up your pointer finger and slowly drop it on the <ENTER> key,  sit back and…

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4. Watch the giant progress bar slowly reach 100% and flash COMPLETED or HACKED to mark the completion of your hacking job.

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5. You must be able to break into any computer or government server in ten minutes.

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6. The one password you can’t easily get through is going to be the victims birthday or daughters name. You must guess it, and get it correct the second or third attempt.

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7. You must create and send a virus that will flash “VIRUS” on the victims server and cause the servers to have mini explosions.

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8. Always talk about “firewalls” and “modifying a certain code”.

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9. During the hacking process, at some point, you must have random 1′s and 0′s scrolling down your whole screen, or instead of the 1′s and 0′s have random HTML code streaming down your whole screen because you can hack via HTML… right?

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If you can think of some more, TELL ME!, so I can add ‘em in.”"

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  1. dblakcshell
    February 8, 2009 at 11:36 pm Reply

    ah, and don’t forget that in the movies after “access granted” phase, there is always a 3D world where 0′s an 1′s are floating around ;)

  2. David
    February 8, 2009 at 11:47 pm Reply

    oh boy, how could I have left out floating code.. I’m going to add that right now hah.

  3. nick
    February 9, 2009 at 5:11 pm Reply

    hello dear

    do you know how to stop or make hang cyber cafe timer?
    if i closed by another way, they can see on server which one doesnt working.
    so i looking to make hang , pause or change the time

    i hope u can give any idea

    hope comment or blog

  4. David
    February 9, 2009 at 5:27 pm Reply

    All I can think of besides getting access to the admin panel and extending your time is to use a program such as Cheat Engine to examine the programs process and lock the time value so it doesn’t change.

  5. ...
    April 9, 2009 at 11:41 pm Reply

    I tried this, and it worked! I’m in Obama’s personal computer system! All I can find is big booty porn.

  6. Slim0123
    April 21, 2009 at 8:35 am Reply

    Well, all I can say for what you’ve written over here is that, the things shown on these movies can surely be possible……

    What most people see is some geeks just press a few strokes on keyboard and hack into the system, but its just one side of the coin, if they were to do this in real life, they would have to prepare some database of access codes to these sites and when in need, just have to use it to access whatever they want. All it needs is to be dormant till you really need to use the codes, coz when you’ll use it, the other person might change it, so in this way, the movie scenes can be compared to the real life…….

    Previously I thought that showing off is the only purpose of the Hackers, but the more you go deep into it, the more you come to know that the hackers usually maintain a “Code of Silence” for whatever they’ve done, and don’t tell anyone what they are upto, so this is the only glitch that all movies possess, they use hackers for show off but in real life, a hacker may pretend that he don’t even know a word about computer……

  7. Slim0123
    April 21, 2009 at 8:39 am Reply

    For the multiple monitors, all I can say is, The more you have, the more you gonna want for more……

    No matter how many monitors surrounds you, you’ll still need more…..

  8. David
    April 21, 2009 at 1:43 pm Reply

    Good point, if you prepare and have the exploit and process ready to go, then you can take over a system in ten minutes.

  9. Jake
    May 12, 2009 at 6:12 pm Reply

    U forgot that giant servers are ALWAYS refered to as “Mainframes”

    • David
      May 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm Reply

      Haha yah, that word really annoys me.

  10. 2Dcore
    May 14, 2009 at 12:10 pm Reply

    Just like anything in the movies they have to make it bigger than what it really is, To keep you on your toes. One thing is they always have an so called advisor/expert that they get to help make these movies look real. You got to wonder what the hell they’re thinking. About the monitors, I can’t live without 2. Now the wall is a little extreme. You know you need alot of them when you control the world at your finger tips,Ha!

  11. David
    May 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm Reply

    Yah, once you get two, you don’t even know how you survived with one! lol

  12. TheHacker
    May 23, 2009 at 5:38 pm Reply

    I actually loled, thats very good, great post :)

    Also, one way of stopping the web cafe timer is buy enabaling task manager via cmd (which would normally be disabled) and the stop the times that your internet cafe uses

  13. jeg
    June 5, 2009 at 8:41 pm Reply

    Don’t forget encryption. There’s always someone there that can break the latest encryption scheme in 10 minutes,…typing fast at the keyboard!

    • David
      June 6, 2009 at 1:21 pm Reply

      haha, you’re right.

  14. Tr0j4n X
    June 9, 2009 at 4:40 pm Reply

    your site is one of the best. i have to get your book.

    • David
      June 9, 2009 at 6:19 pm Reply

      thanks. yah, you’ll like it :-) .

  15. Tr0j4n X
    June 10, 2009 at 8:13 am Reply

    yeah, and you got one of the best phishing tutorials.

  16. Haznet
    July 6, 2009 at 3:15 am Reply

    haha this was really funny and smart

  17. rick
    September 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm Reply

    pretty good man but u 4got to talk about the one thing where u fight off 10 people at the same time haha

    • David
      September 22, 2009 at 1:39 pm Reply

      haha, yah that’s a good one.

  18. Mike (from math class)
    October 3, 2009 at 3:19 am Reply

    Yo dave, this is a sweet Melna-site. Good work. Stay high pimping

    • David
      October 3, 2009 at 10:35 am Reply

      Yii :-)

  19. Robin
    October 8, 2009 at 6:32 pm Reply

    EPIC!
    I am going to Blend this into my Presentation I got tomorrow about Malware and how hackers work at a LAN-Party. Those guys wont get the joke. But Ill be Laughing my ass off ^^

    Thanks

  20. David
    October 9, 2009 at 1:28 am Reply

    Haha that’s awesome.

    np!

  21. Rishabh Dangwal
    October 14, 2009 at 8:12 pm Reply

    ROFLMAO !!
    gr8 one !! I watched Swordfish and then came to know how stupid movie makers can get…

    Nice effort dude

  22. anonymous
    December 6, 2009 at 9:45 pm Reply

    Live Free or Die Hard is a good example of all of this.

    Don’t forget hackers can make a bomb out of your computer!

  23. jay
    December 8, 2009 at 7:35 pm Reply

    So far I am loving the site! Some funny and informative posts! This had me laughing at work lol. You forgot one crucial detail though. After the enter key is pressed, they will yell “I’m in!” or “We’re in!” Depending on the size of the team (only if they aren’t cool enough to do it single-handedly).

    • David
      December 9, 2009 at 2:13 am Reply

      Haha! good point.

  24. Kinngh
    April 17, 2010 at 6:14 am Reply

    How can u 4get da MATRIX???

    • David
      April 18, 2010 at 8:28 pm Reply

      Hmm.. you’re right.. a classic. I’ll have to update this soon.

  25. init-0
    April 17, 2010 at 11:35 am Reply

    You forgot l33t sp34k

    jus7 t4lk 4s 1f y0ur k3yb04rd d03sn7 w0rk pr0p3rly.

    lol

  26. keshav
    May 7, 2010 at 5:29 am Reply

    hii,really nice post, well,can u tell me is there any way to crack bios password other then removing cmos battery ,is there any software approach for cracking bios password

    • David
      May 11, 2010 at 12:28 am Reply

      Sure there is, there is software that will crack it.

  27. keshav
    May 7, 2010 at 5:38 am Reply

    right now i’m working on backtrack but things are not going smooth ,other then backtrack guide by offensive security is there any guide book availabe for backtrack

    also can you tell me how to connect internet in backtrack through mobile modem, i’m using motorokr e6 with bsnl connection, if u are from india u’ll know BSNL

    • David
      May 11, 2010 at 12:31 am Reply

      Keshav, I don’t know of any “specific” courses/books for backtrack, but you can find lots of information on video sites like youtube.com. Not sure about the mobile modem.. i bet someone on http://forums.remote-exploit.org will help you out.

  28. WebCraker
    May 30, 2010 at 10:03 am Reply

    hehehe .. you are damn right dude ,,

  29. read maniac
    June 13, 2010 at 7:56 am Reply

    dude thats really great article.
    I think that hollywood should stop sensationalizing
    hackers.

  30. nicolas
    July 8, 2010 at 1:13 pm Reply

    how do i get these hacking books as am in Nigeria?

    • David
      July 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm Reply

      you can’t purchase from Amazon?

  31. Will
    July 8, 2010 at 4:56 pm Reply

    THe only one missing was that the progress bar would say exactly what your doing like above the progress bar would be written “Hacking into FBI central data base 52% complete”

    Awesome Post!

  32. wilson
    July 19, 2010 at 1:20 pm Reply

    is there any way to hack e mail accounts!!
    i mean any softwares made for it!
    if so plz do a reply about it

    • David
      July 19, 2010 at 5:01 pm Reply

      wilson, phishing pages and malware are the easiest ways.

  33. febin
    July 21, 2010 at 7:46 am Reply

    how does a malware be useful in hacking an email account ??

    • David
      July 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm Reply

      @febin well if you infect someone with malware.. then you can pretty much get any password they type into their computer.

  34. gazi
    August 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm Reply

    Hello David,

    I read your book these days, when i started reading the book it tooks me 6 hours to read , last night i was reading until 5 pm because it was so interesting and I could not stop reading. I am studying Information Security can you recommend me another good book for Hacking or Computer Security.

    Best regards,
    Gazmend

    • David
      August 17, 2010 at 7:35 pm Reply

      @gazi, sure check out Counter Hack Reloaded.. search it in amazon.

  35. James
    August 19, 2010 at 10:00 pm Reply

    Haha. This is great post. I am going to post this on my site, and give credit to you. (if don’t want it, e-mail me back)

  36. David
    August 20, 2010 at 7:43 pm Reply

    @james, awesome. post a link back if you wish.

  37. usi
    September 21, 2010 at 5:35 pm Reply

    I really don’t understand that how can I do this, but I just stumbled through google and want to understand this, will you mail me please with more details? pls

    • David
      September 21, 2010 at 6:48 pm Reply

      @usi, this article is just a joke.. its not really hacking.. just making fun of how movies portray it.

  38. Saiiko
    October 6, 2010 at 1:05 pm Reply

    hey dude,
    loved your book,love your site :)
    you forgot the going trough the etherlink cable and out of the other computer, that’s always on

  39. Dr.MaxX
    November 15, 2010 at 4:02 pm Reply

    Each time i see this movies its so funny, but dont leave out CSI and all this tv series hahahaha. Good article man beatifull way to put it.

    • David
      November 16, 2010 at 2:05 am Reply

      Thanks :D

  40. John
    December 16, 2010 at 2:12 pm Reply

    U r a lifesaver dude. Cool stuff keep it up!!

  41. Dave
    December 26, 2010 at 2:39 pm Reply

    Ha! Yes those are very irritating aspects of hackers in movies, but regular hacking is very hard to make compelling to watch for your average audience. I like to compare it to using a defibrillator to bring a flat line patient back from the dead. The function is even in the name DE-fibrillator for fixing ventricular fibrillation.

    It would be nice to see how much more is done through social engineering as opposed to “rerouting the encryption through a Canadian firewall.”

  42. Lee Doolan
    December 26, 2010 at 6:33 pm Reply

    I take issue with your premise that “…attempts [are] made by hollywood to try and portray hacker’s realisticly in their movies…”.

    In fact, I see no evidence that Hollywood attempts a realistic portrayal.

    • David
      December 28, 2010 at 5:21 am Reply

      @Lee, well they make some attempt but fail miserably.. you know they attempt to when you see real hacker programs appear in movies..

  43. Felipe Borges
    December 26, 2010 at 10:10 pm Reply

    Yeah, and when you hack someone else’s computer, the graphical interface fades from the screen.

    • David
      December 28, 2010 at 5:17 am Reply

      @Felipe, haha so true.

  44. Jonas
    January 17, 2011 at 9:31 pm Reply

    hahahaha genau so ist es Booom und reingehackt xD weiter so ;)

  45. Salman
    February 15, 2011 at 12:28 pm Reply

    Hey You Should Also Talking About Metasploit And Exploit That Can do Everything You Haven’t Think And also Hacking Into UNIX systems I Have Read About Cisco Firewall what is This Can We break It Please Mail Me At salmankhan.khan8@gmail.com With some Metasploit reverse ayload Command Thanks In Advance David

    • David
      February 19, 2011 at 9:29 pm Reply

      @Salman, yup good topics.

  46. Yamis
    February 16, 2011 at 1:46 am Reply

    I like it when they have random html all over the place though! At least its closer to the real thing than a big Padlock on the screen that you code up a key for and insert it in to break into things.

  47. Vaibhav
    May 27, 2011 at 11:12 am Reply

    Very nice, BUT Whenever the guy is about to complete 99.9% or something; his MOM or GF shut his computer down!

  48. Amit Kolambikar
    June 9, 2011 at 6:45 pm Reply

    Sir,
    Have u read digital fortress by dan brown ?

  49. Ark Darius
    September 9, 2011 at 7:47 pm Reply

    And most of these filmy hackers will wear a headphone without any reasons and would hack without any programming!!!!!

  50. Faiz Ahamed
    September 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm Reply

    I just love this one, it’s the best yet. In the movies they rob banks by driving minis through the sewers. James Bond as a car that turns into a helicopter, and Spider-man swings from skyscrapers. It’s entertainment, hacking is not cool, it’s just plain old boring. Learn a programming language for a start I am sure that before you finish that exercises you will have decided it’s not like the movies. If you really want to do it though and have the patience good luck.I’ve refereed a good hacking site which speaks about only hacking. i.e.Learn Hacking

  51. Nasruminallah zeeshan
    September 24, 2011 at 5:02 am Reply

    It is, obviously, a nice article. I liked. Can you please write something about “How different languages like HTML, PHP are important to learn for a Hacker ?” and how these languages contribute in a Hacker’s jobs. I wanna this article, plz help !!

    Thanking you … and Have a Nice Day all !!

  52. Dan
    November 13, 2011 at 9:22 pm Reply

    Or just use http://hackertyper.net/ ROFL.

  53. Patrick Stein
    November 14, 2011 at 7:52 pm Reply

    You need a monitor that projects the code onto your face so that everyone in the vicinity knows you’re working on code.

  54. DroidVPN
    December 18, 2011 at 2:27 pm Reply

    Hahaha! You got a nice list there! I always wonder why do they portray hackers like that can’t they interview someone who at least knows how hacking really is. But well maybe if they do it would become very boring movie.

  55. T3rr0r
    December 31, 2011 at 12:56 pm Reply

    You forgot to say that we have to run CLIs on all monitors and the foreground should be green and the background color should always be black ;) :P

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