Dec 2
Deus Ex Machina
Matthew Broderick, armed with a 20 baud modem and a floppy drive, accidentally accesses the military’s most top secret computer when trying to hack into his high school mainframe. Yeah.
Toasted Pixel is less than impressed with Hollywood’s use of computers as a plot device.
Hackers can break into any system with three wild guesses at a password. Somewhere on the Internet there’s a page that spells out in excruciating detail what the bad guys are up to. Windows never crashes.
My favorite: The monitor text is invariably in a 100-point font that looks like it was created on a Commodore 64. You’d wear out your scroll wheel trying to read anything longer than a paragraph.
