Ep 7: Hackers
Screen Testing
English - June 02, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBTechnology TV & Film films movies quality television testing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
HACK THE PLANET! Your regular hosts Neil (aka Integer Overflow) and Dan (Shoe_Gazer) are taking over the airwaves with special guest Matthew Bretten (Mr Null) to pull apart the most 90s film of all-time. We analyse the visuals, the clothing, the soundtrack and the tech, all of which help to make Hackers a hundred times better than Swordfish.
To keep our critical eyes sharp, we debate whether curiosity was really their only crime, whether the hacks still hold up today, and whether the recycle bin is really a good place to store secure files.
Among the oddities we encounter along the way, we talk about the merits of SWAT teams pointing guns at kids, whether Acid Burn's fencing proficiency is a useful weapon, we get pedantic about RAM, and try to avoid talking about Matthew Lillard at all.
References:
BBC Future: These unlucky people have names that break computers (Jennifer Null) Let's Talk About Tests, Baby YouTube: 24 season 4 prequel featuring Alberta Watson (with Jack Bauer swearing) YouTube: Doctor Who Max Headroom 1987 broadcast signal intrusion incident YouTube: CSI "I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic" DEF CON hacking conference The Official Social Engineering portal YouTube: Homer's explanation of nerds The top 30 worst Ashley Madison passwords TV Tropes: MacGuffin YouTube: Dactyl Nightmare (Virtuality VR game which The Plague plays) YouTube: Ronnie O'Sullivan fails to play pool in VR Wikipedia: RISC architecture YouTube: GoldenEye - montage of Boris "I am invincible" scenes YouTube: Hackers - the final hack scene (featuring all of the dodgy viruses, and Dade's weird eyepiece) Wikipedia: Gary McKinnon YouTube: Mr Robot scene which references Hackers YouTube: ALF's cameo in Mr Robot's bizarre 80s episode YouTube: Urban Dance Squad - Good Grief TestBash Manchester 2017 Meetup: North West Tester Gathering (Manchester) Meetup: Liverpool Tester Gathering
Security testing resources from Dan:
GitHub: Dan's security testing learning repository GitHub: Ticket MagpieYouTube clips for some of the nostalgic name-checking in this episode:
1984 (featuring John Hurt) Early PowerBook commercial Wipeout Short Circuit Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker GamesMaster pilot episode Bad Influence pilot episode Knightmare pilot episode Saved By The Bell credits The Net Strange Days Johnny Mnemonic Trainspotting Magic Carpet Star Wars: Rebel Assault The 7th Guest Phantasmagoria Flashback MystOur next episode will be a double-header, as we tackle both ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY and STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE to answer the eternal question: Is it a bug, or a feature?
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Intro music: Orbital - Halcyon And On And On
Outro music: Squeeze - Heaven Knows