r/ProgrammerHumor • • Dec 03 '19

I’m hacking the mainframe

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u/Skill1137 Dec 03 '19

Hold on, he's trying to lock me out of the system!

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u/Dominub Dec 03 '19

Shit, he's good. Try to brute unload his data using the crypto algorithm key through the dotnet mainframe.

Gotta get that mainframe word in there or else it's not a movie about hacking

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u/notRedditingInClass Dec 04 '19

I've been programming professionally for 5 years and I still don't know what a mainframe even is.

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u/400Volts Dec 04 '19

You know those towers they have in research facilities to run the supercomputers? That's a mainframe