Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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  • When is the last time you saw someone in a movie hotwire a car?

    According to every movie I’ve seen, the way it’s done is you reach under the steering wheel and yank down a panel that is apparently velcroed on. A bunch of loose wires dump out, including two wires conveniently in front whose ends are conveniently stripped and tinned. You grab these two wires and strike them against each other like flint and steel. This apparently switches on the vehicle’s electrical and ignition systems, disengages the steering lock and engages the starter motor.

    Funnily enough you actually could hotwire a plane like that; because of how magnetos work, turning the ignition systems on is accomplished by disconnecting a couple wires.




  • I want a realistic hacking movie, and I know how it should be done:

    In plot, it needs to be an ensemble cast heist movie a la Ocean’s Eleven. But it should have a “this isn’t serious” tone similar to Down Periscope. Because it’s about a penetration testing company. They’re hired to do a full physical and digital security audit on some large company, so then we follow the crew of law abiding computer nerds and burglars as they plan and perpetrate a series of hacks and attacks on this company.

    The stakes if they get caught are they hand a letter of authorization to the security team, say “good job” and report to the company that hired them that their security in that department is good, so even though they’re taking their job seriously there isn’t really any tension and they maintain a goofy sense of humor.

    And you’re in luck, Jayson Street and Deviant Ollam have already pretty much entirely written this, just watch their defcon talks. Get those two guys on either side of a coffee table with a bottle of fine whiskey and you’ll have your screenplay before the bottle’s empty.

    It’ll never get made though because Master Lock would sue you for even trying. You couldn’t make it without completely obliterating Master Lock.