Re: [chat] Swordfish a comedy?

[Ben Leslie <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Martin wrote:

> I saw Swordfish last night and, while some of the action was kind of cool,
> the technical side of things left a lot to be desired...
> 
> most of the dialogue is like someone choose random words from security web
> sites and strung them together to make a stream of nonsense and gibberish...
> 
> i almost laughed myself out of my seat when he hacked a DOD machine with
> "128 bit encryption" by password guessing and his highly visual "worm IDE"
> had barely a line of code in sight...
> 
> sure the old code sitting on a PDP-10 in a uni basement was kinda spot on,
> but when someone randomly inserts "xxx bit encryption", "firewall" and
> "ipchains" into the script, it makes for an almost embarassing film for the
> geeks out there...
> 
> any one else seen it?

Yeah I was bored today and went to see it. The funniest thing is John Travolta's
little rambling at the beginning of the movie about how hollywood makes shit
and it is never realistic. After that I was expecting it to be totally absent of
any technical information. I just loved the #1 hacker in the world being a finnish
guy called torvalds, and the #2 hacker in the world being reffered to as "jobs".

Anyway, the action was kind cool, and I didn't think the plot sucked entirely,
but totally devoid of any technical content, but really what do you expect?

Benno