On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>
wrote:

> There's a pretty hilarious American police procedural TV show in 2015
> called "CSI: Cyber", featuring mostly cybercrime. Obviously they have to
> dredge up snippets of code from places for screenshots on the show.
>
> Episode 4 happened to include a tidbit from MediaWiki 1.25/wmf3. Supposedly
> the code was a hack to make your printer blow up.
>

I spotted another one of these: Criminal Minds, "The Hunt", at timestamp
26:10 on Netflix. Apparently the NewPP limit report is part of the login
process for some underground girl-auctioning site.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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