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:: Sunday, May 18, 2003 ::

Matrix Reloaded in Accurate hack shocker
Something that bugs me about practicaly every film that requires some sort of "h4x0r" action, is the fact that it's always done with some sort of amazing GUI frontend or wierd 3d enviroment (if you've seen Hackers, Swordfish, Antitrust, the Net, Sneakers, etc, etc you'll know what I'm talking about) when in real life most of this sort of thing is done from the command line or web browser (OK not the most visualy stunning things for films) . However, acording to the Reg in Matrix: Reloaded, Trinity uses nmap (nmaps site has screen grabs of MRe) to find ssh servers that are vunerable to a real remote buffer overflow.
A good point made by the reg is shouldn't they have all been patched by the time the film takes place? Although another good point made by the people at nmap is that the Matrixs "reality" is still 2000.

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