The hacking scene out of the James Bond film ‘Skyfall’ of 2012. All material is owned by the rightful companies/producers. Socials: Instagram: @LatPix Twitter: @JoshLatPix
When running the villain's code for the first time, make sure you always use a computer that is conveniently connected to your intranet and has access to the internal security system.
Sadly it is very difficult to really disconnect every point of connection from a singular terminal to the network. As the connection would be established over the power line.
For a movie that took place in 2012, the directors had a really LOW understanding of how hacking would work. Also, how is Q supposed to be a tech genius but missed the most basic lesson of never connecting an unknown object to your network and much less giving it access lmao
Q missed the most basic lesson in security. The most secure computer is one that is completely disconnected from any network and totally powered down to all its components.
@@hhhharis622 Its not. Its a dated term for polymorphic viruses. Way back in past, computer malware used to "infect" executables. Ofcourse now with signed assemblies and binaries it wont work but back in the day with unsigned executables malware could just append or insert itself in the executable. So one way to detect and remove it was by searching for patterns unique to the malware called signature. The malware writers started writing self modifying code which could produce many different but functionally equivalent copies. These were polymorphic viruses. The code which can give this ability to any malware was called "polymorphic engine". An example will be VCL or Virus Creation Laboratory. Its old outdated and useless now. Those days are long gone.
Fuck it. The visual interface is not true. Its generally a black and white screen. + you couldn't open them doors without knowing the variables and that should be encrypted using salted hashing. Polymorphic code is a real thing though. I work in cybersecurity in pens testing.
It's the classic "can't see the forest for the trees" idea. Yes they're experts, but they're analyzing the data bit by bit, looking for patterns they recognize. Bond is just standing there with his hands in his pockets watching, but he's taking in the whole scene because that's all he can do. It's not unheard of for an expert who's hyper-focused on something that's his particular specialty to completely miss something that the casual observer notices immediately.
so you're telling me that Q is hailed as some tech genius and prodigy only to run unknown code on an unknown computer that he plugged directly into the local network and internal security services? Bro's brain is smoother than a bowling ball
A subplot of this movie is the hubris that is imbedded within MI6. Q thought he was better and his hubris led to the breach. I do not think the writers did a great job of pointing this out as it happens multiple times.
Most of the keyboard warriors just like show themselves as experts. They think people from bond production don't know anyone who understand hacking or anything. None of these keyboard warriors could make such a film which could reach such wider audience in the world.
That's what happens when writers that probably think Google is the throughway to the Internet and have a bunch of those spammy taskbars installed are tasked with writing a tech savvy character. All they had to do was write this scenario on some sysadmin forum or subreddit, and they'd have been bombarded with reasons that it would fail and what they should do (aka have Q do) instead.
you'd think that a program that opens all doors in a facility, you'd think the prison door would be somewhere else. But yeah for an organisation like MI5/6, you'd be frogmarched out the door for a move like that.
@@romanrutkowski331That shouldn't make it any easier to break it. That's what not relying on "security by obscurity" means. Linux kernel developers shouldn't be able to root a Linux box they're not authorized to any easier than anyone else.
writing "you can't just hack into an intelligence agency's security system" not long after Russians hacked basically every American agency and noone knew for months....
I have this theory: That Baron Samedi appears on the Craig films but as a constant pressence. Like in the opening of Spectre when 007 is dressed up as a skull with a hat or the Silva's hacking animation in Skyfall. I have to rewatch the first two to see if there are little nods.
What amuses and frustrates me is how easily they could have foiled his escape if they'd put him in a cell with an ordinary, non-electronic lock. Just because we've got all this advanced technology doesn't mean the old methods aren't still useful.
MI6 should have been well funded enough to afford few throwaway workstation and internet connection isolated from their own network... Alas, they spend all their money in 1970s to 2000s on flying cars etc. Now a day they can only afford a gun and a radio -- minimal! Not exactly christmas.
@@MrRaizada Well after all of that the computer screen says: “Not such a clever boy” which is of course directed at Q. The movie established before hand that Q was indeed quite cocky such as when he says: “I could do more damage on my laptop in my pyjamas before I’ve had my first cup of Earl grey.” and “Only 6 people in the world could program safe guards like this. I invented them.” MI6 most likely did have isolated system he could’ve decrypted it on but, as Silva said, “not such a clever boy”.
Although Granborough Road is a disused Metropolitan Line station, it certainly wouldn't show up on a map of subterranean London, as it's over 40 miles outside London!
The more I get into computer science, the more annoyed I am at the comments. You really want to see a realistic hack? Because it’s boring. This is actually one of my favorite, not too comic and cool visuals. Not realistic, but unless you want to watch a movie explain Sql injections, this is a really cool way to explain it to audiences. Plus, we don’t know if the computer is actually connected. It might be a secure network but there was some vulnerability that broke past the firewall. Heck, maybe he left a back door when he first worked at mi6 which could allow access from that secure network to the main one which q didn’t know about. Stop complaining about realism, if you want realism, go watch a hacking documentary.
I think worst thing is that the the terminology and explanations are misleading. Maybe it doesn't matter since people shouldn't be using info in a movie seriously to safeguard their real life computers. It looks cool but shatters the realism for the tech savvy audience and even others. After all, I think most people would say "eehh, that's a bit cheesy" that MI6 was hacked since they carelessly researched a potentially dangerous device, providing it even a little access to internet/network. They should've taken your ideas to explain the hack, like there was already a backdoor. That would satisfy everybody in the audience!
Most of these keyboard warriors can't make such a film which could reach wider audience. They are always ready to find faults in the film. The biggest obvious point is to show that silva wanted Q to open the drive.
I wouldn't necessarily care about realism if they just thought of another way than making Q a moron. Maybe a traitor supplied Silva the WiFi password. Anything so it's not an idiot plot
1. I don't care how much money I'd make. I am not playing a digital security specialist and saying "I'm/We're in." It's as gauche at this point as "Zoom and Enhance," or "As you know." 2. Everyone else already covered it. Thank God so many people saw it at once. MI6. Brightest minds of the country. And you aren't metaphorically flipping switches in the dark in a darkness you know to be hostile ON AN AIR GAPED SYSTEM. But that's less character incompetence and more writer Boomerism, so, I'll let it pass. This time.
literally the stupidest thing you can do. Why plug a potentially dangerous machine into your own network? And wouldn't firewalls have at least done something to stop it?
This sort of thing amuses me so much. Even if - and it is a very big if - Silva could program some hidden code to hack MI6's systems once they plugged his computer into their network, nowhere has all their door locks controlled by a hackable computer network. This is why every high security location on the planet, from nuclear silos to Number 10, have physical keys and a sturdy lock. We've never come up with anything better. You don't want a jail that lets it's prisoners out every time there's a power cut, a fuse shorts out, or someone hacks the network. I also love that Hollywood thinks this is what hacking is. This is just as realistic as the movie _Hackers_ with it's "TYPE COOKIES!"
Crazy to think that this film was released in 2012. Also sad to realize that Craig officially retired from the Bond role after No Time to Die. I think my journey as a 007 fan has cone to an end.
so he is some massive computer genius and he just plugs the villains computer into his own network like that? doesnt take a genius to use some elementary failsafes like vpns, VMs etc. what an absolute bullshit scene
That is because there is nothing to hack on MacOS. Expensive piece of plastic that has only half the power at best compared to cheaper windows computers. Oh, and good luck running specific programs on Mac, the last time I checked you guys need exclusive versions since your apple club is "exclusive" ;)
@@LakituKoopa let me guess. You have never tried an Apple device right? Actually all the programs work fine on my M1 processor. And the macbook is far from plastic its more like metal
@@dimitarpetkov4442 tried more than enough to know that students with macbooks have difficulties to connect with projectors and that people who try to repair them are in hell since they nearly can't open those things.
@@dimitarpetkov4442 well not shitty enough to work with any other device. And it happened in 5 unis I stayed. Every single time. No one wanted to work in group projects with mac users.
I know Victor Krum I have a basic understanding of coding. Only language I know is python. But don’t do anything stupid and reckless pls the human shields (your neighbour) might die
