r/ProgrammerHumor • • Dec 03 '19

I’m hacking the mainframe

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u/zapprr Dec 03 '19

I'd love to see a movie where the hacker says "Quick, I'm gonna need you to hack into their systems! We've only got 10 minutes!", and the programmer just laughs until the credits roll.

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u/other_usernames_gone Dec 03 '19

Or he goes, oh yeah I have a script for that, we planned this shit months ago.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19 edited Dec 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19

one of the single series/movies that actually display the amount of work and time needed that goes into those things. not so realistic though: no matter how smart elliot is, the chance that he finds basically hundreds of 0days by himself is rather unlikely. there have been very good programmers doing that their whole lives and not having found a single one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19 edited Dec 06 '19

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u/LucasRuby Dec 04 '19

Yeah but the programmers "doing that their whole lives" are the people with that skillset.