Blackhat - a new blockbuster, trying to realistically show the work of hackers


    Hackers' workdays

    According to ArsTechnica , the new action movie Blackhat, which includes a carder hunting for an evil hacker, will not be some kind of revelation or especially interesting to watch, judging by early reviews. However, due to the scrupulousness of the director, who invited two computer security consultants at once, at least the actions of computer geeks on the screen will look realistic. In one scene, a group led by a convicted carder (Chris “Thor” Hemsworth), who was pulled out of prison to chase a hacker, bursts into the server room of an atomic station, which crashed as a result of the actions of a villain, and tries to extract information from a damaged hard drive.

    One of the consultants was Chris McKinley., known for his epic hacking dating site OKCupid in order to find the girl of his dreams. And the prototype of the protagonist embodied by Hemsworth was Max Butler, known by the nickname Max Vision - a consultant on the security of computer systems and a well-known carder. The Kingpin book was written about him , the author of which, Kevin Poulsen, just acted as the second consultant on the film.



    The director really wanted to achieve realism in his film in relation to computer technology, so even at first he planned to teach Chris the basics of programming. When this did not work out, he settled on the fact that Chris was driving various Unix commands into the terminal with his own hands and with great speed. True, it cannot be said that the film did not have unrealistic hacking scenes (like hacking the main character of a prison network movie from a smuggled smartphone), and, besides, this realism does not seem to save the film, stuffed with standard car chases, fights and shooting. The current imdb-rating of the film is at around 5.5 points. So, while we are still waiting for an interesting and realistic movie about crackers (and not a colorful fairy tale performance like Swordfish and Hackers or a boring and ridiculous action in the style of The Net).

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