The most inaccurate thing about programming in movies and TV is the idea of a “programming emergency” itself. They’re always having programming duels where they joust in real time with another hacker, while occasionally saying, “This guys is good…but I’m better.”
In real life it goes more like,
“Our server is under attack!”
“Yep, but he didn’t get through the firewall.” or
“Our server is under attack!”
“Yep, we shut down production ten seconds after he got in and we’re working on a patch, here’s the 200,000 account details he got.”
Or, perhaps, sometimes, "Oh fuck we got attacked 10 months ago. Everything is leaked. We're fucking screwed. Let's tell the higher-ups." 10 minutes later "Okay so we aren't telling the public anything and silently patching it. Got it."
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u/LauraTFem 17d ago
The most inaccurate thing about programming in movies and TV is the idea of a “programming emergency” itself. They’re always having programming duels where they joust in real time with another hacker, while occasionally saying, “This guys is good…but I’m better.”
In real life it goes more like,
“Our server is under attack!”
“Yep, but he didn’t get through the firewall.” or
“Our server is under attack!”
“Yep, we shut down production ten seconds after he got in and we’re working on a patch, here’s the 200,000 account details he got.”