• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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      War dialing. Social engineering. Absolutely.

      Also, hackers (except for the screen projecting on the characters faces).

      It’s in that place I put that thing that time.

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      When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.

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        Even these days I’m still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.

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          That phobia is exactly why I’m still using that piece of crap like PayPal.

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          I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.

          When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.

          EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one’s using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it’s a magstrip or someone punching numbers in…

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      And honorable mention to the non-existing Matrix sequel that had an actual SSH vulnerability on screen.

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      The one with Sandra Bullock? Concept-wise it was quite realistic. But the hacking itself, man that was some unbelievable stuff. I don’t think they got any fact or term right. Almost as if the OG Clippy helped: “It looks like you want to make a hacker-related movie…”