Have just seen the movie "Firewall." You guys never told me it was shot in Vancouver, rather than Seattle. (Despite the messy format, we spotted that in the credits, when Indiana Jon^W^W Jack Ryan^W Stanfield walks by the Birks clock, a famous meeting place in Vancouver for generations.) Jack's house, or the living room, at least, is one of our favourite restaurants. (The exterior shot of the house is not where the interiors are done: you'll notice that the exterior is on the water, while the shot out the living room windows shows that they are 200 meters up the mountain.)
In between playing "spot the location" (always a distraction in locally shot movies, along with "spot the road travel continuity goofs") I thought the tech was reasonably well done, although rather laboured. (OK, he's wired for sound, has a breast pocket camera that's being monitored, and his computer has a keylogger on it. [OK, an instantly instant messaging keylogger is kinda cool.] Has nobody ever heard of paper and pencil?) I was amused by his rant at the beginning of the movie about risks of loss and fraud just being a cost of doing business: anybody who makes it to head of infosec for a bank will, of course, recognize that of course it is, and you balance the value of the assets at risk against the cost of the controls, based on a cost/benefit analysis, in order to pass on the lowest "cost of doing business" to the customer. (I did rather think Jack and friend Gary were being a bit cavalier about the initial case of identity theft. On the one hand, banks really don't do enough about ID theft. On the other, maybe a cavalier attitude is why banks don't do enough about ID theft ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most likely way the world will be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
