Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Algorithm: The Hacker Movie

thehackermovie.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 89 posts

Re: Algorithm: The Hacker Movie

#12

Post by delluminatus »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #3

I guess I don't understand how the title and subtitle are linked. The synopsis and trailers don't talk about algorithms at all. Also, a lot of the trailers focus on cracking, it appears, and not hacking as in doing creative things and using things in ways not expected? Why would someone aiming at the tech community use a word so wrongly, and in a way that riles some of us up? While I understand that mono uses the .ex…

Those exe files look like payloads destined for Windows machines. Although the screenshot is surely staged, I could imagine seeing output like that in a USB Linux system for physical-access cracking, or if someone was collecting cracked executables for distribution or examination, or if they went ham generating exploit containers in Metasploit.

Security work/pentesting is one of the few situations where you could legitimately find yourself working with a lot of EXE files in Linux, because your targets are typically Windows systems.

Re: Algorithm: The Hacker Movie

#14

Post by dragonwriter »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #3

I guess I don't understand how the title and subtitle are linked. The synopsis and trailers don't talk about algorithms at all. Also, a lot of the trailers focus on cracking, it appears, and not hacking as in doing creative things and using things in ways not expected? Why would someone aiming at the tech community use a word so wrongly, and in a way that riles some of us up? While I understand that mono uses the .ex…

EDIT: replaced * characters that were causing format problems.

> While I understand that mono uses the .exe suffix, not many other things do in the -nix ecosystem, but the screen shot they use shows what appears to be ls -l output and all the files have a .exe suffix.

So? "ls -l" means you have something that provides -nix style command line utilities, which doesn't mean you are on  -nix -- plenty of people have that on Windows. And, of course, there's no reason you can't have mono executables -- or Windows executables, for that matter -- all in a directory on a  -nix machine, as well.

Re: Algorithm: The Hacker Movie

#15

Post by huhtenberg »

phit_ wrote: post #11
huhtenberg wrote: post #7

Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here. Yuppie!

it's only available if you watch the embedded version on their site http://www.vincepergolizzi.com/2014/01/how-to-download-priva...

No, that's the message I get in the embedded player when I open the homepage.
Post reply on HN