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  1. Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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    How many examples of laughable security can you think of in popular fiction, especially sci fi?
    Can we get a top ten?

    My favourite is Jeff Goldblum hacking into the alien mothership in Independence Day. (CERT Advisory: "Impact: Non-privileged primitive users can cause the total destruction of your entire invasion fleet and gain unauthorized access to files.")
     
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  3. RAW2000 suburban Registered Senior Member

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    The R2D2 was hanging out with the Rebel alliance at the start of a New hope, so in fact he's perfectly placed to have received files to hack into Empire networks.

    What about Ivan Vanko hacking past a 24bit security key in Iron man 2 I noticed the other day.
     
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  5. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    How about accessing WORP through a humble phone modem by accidentally finding it by "Wardialing" and then finding a list of computer games that gives you a developers name to then start "social engineering" to find out the password for the developers "backdoor".

    Incidentally according to a Wiki look, WORP could of been named OLI(Omnipresent Laser Interceptor), "it was a space-based defensive laser run by an intelligent program."
     
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  7. Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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    "joshua5". Such a carefully chosen password

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