On 04/08/2013 09:22 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
The comedy blog Slackstory published "An Ode to Movie Mainframes" this
week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with "hacking the
mainframe." Movies most often use the phrase to mean that "the hacker
can now do anything he or she wants with a given computer system." But
in the real world, what exactly is a mainframe and what would hacking
into it even entail?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/hacking-the-mainframe_n_2958380.html
...and read comments, of course.
It is obvious the authors of virus attack plots in movies and books (Dan
Brown "Digital Fortress" comes to mind) have little understanding of the
nature of a real computer virus when they have individuals with no
access to the target machine and even no knowledge of the target
machines architecture or software miraculously construct a computer
virus that is 100% effective at achieving the desired end!
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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