[TriLUG] OT: Firewall The Movie.
Chad Thomsen
chad.thomsen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 14:56:41 EST 2005
>7) All system administrators must have at least two major character
>flaws, of which one must be pomposity. The other is recommended to be
>some sort of physical defect, including obesity or poor eyesight.
>
>And I'm not really confident as to whether #7 is a law of Hollywood or
>a Law of Nature.
Pretty much going to have to agree with Shane on this oen except for number
7. Surpisingly enough my only "Law of Nature" charcter flaw is the need to
kill some stupid user who pisses me off by asking me if there password is in
caps or not. 8-)
Chad
On 12/21/05, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Haven't you guys ever seen a Hollywood-created high-tech blockbuster?
> There are a few key rules that must be followed:
>
> 1) Must show blinking command prompt. Preferrably, command prompt from
> a VAX
> 2) All commands must be actual commands in DOS 3.3+
> 2a) One exception to rule 2 is that "login" is a universally
> acceptable command
> 2b) "login" has only two possible responses: "Access Denied" or a
> half-screen ASCII art banner of the system name or government
> department to whom the system belongs
> 3) Regardless of the year, all screen shots must be of a Macintosh
> Classic running any of System 6.8 through 7.2
> 3a) This is especially critical of system errors or if the system
> has been hacked, in which case, the screen shot must be of the "system
> bomb" from System 6.8
> 4) All computers are capable of accessing and freezing full-motion
> video streams. Preferrably, all graphical images are viewed in a new
> window created on top of a monochromatic full-screen command-line
> interface (See #1 above).
> 4a) All graphics, regardless of original source, can be "zoomed in"
> and the smallest, blurriest detail in the original image can be
> expanded by at least 10x at greater clarity than the original image.
> 4b) This should be used as much with license plates and taxi cab
> badge numbers as possible--even if it's not central to the plot
> 5) All Wide-Area Network technologies should be referred to as a "T-1".
> 6) Any data, regardless of how or where it's been stored and how it
> has been deleted, is at least partially recoverable.
> 7) All system administrators must have at least two major character
> flaws, of which one must be pomposity. The other is recommended to be
> some sort of physical defect, including obesity or poor eyesight.
>
> And I'm not really confident as to whether #7 is a law of Hollywood or
> a Law of Nature.
>
>
> Shane O.
>
>
> On 12/21/05, Chad Thomsen <chad.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No no no... Ya see Microshaft is too easy to hack due to the amount of
> > patches folks forget to put on there systems. Cisco will throw there
> > product in there and as a sub plot of the movie there will be thieves
> trying
> > to get a hold of the cracked cisco IOS that made the headlines many
> months
> > ago.
> >
> > On 12/21/05, Barry Gaskins <barry.gaskins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Except I bet that microsoft probably paid them to have these secure
> > > systems running on windows. The linux community does not have any
> money
> > > to
> > > pay for product placement in movies. So I bet you will not see any
> > > pengiuns
> > >
> > > - Barry
> > >
> > > On 12/21/05, Ian Meyer <ianmeyer at mac.com> wrote:
> > > >
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> > > > See, here I was thinking, wow, Firewall The Movie! Now I can finally
> > > > see, in cinematic quality, what like as iptables is really like!
> > > >
> > > > Rats.
> > > >
> > > > ~ian
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Alan Porter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Chad Thomsen said the following:
> > > > >
> > > > >> http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Looks interesting. Wonder when it will be out?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll wait for the sequel, "OpenVPN".
> > > > >
> > > > > Denzel Washington must generate a 1024-bit SSL certificate
> > > > > to tunnel into the intranet of his former employer, a defense
> > > > > contractor that is about to sell the US Air Force a shipment
> > > > > of missiles that have a serious Y2K software glitch. Meanwhile,
> > > > > terrorists from Tajikistan have planted spyware on his laptop.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can he close the endless stream of pr0n pop-ups in time to
> > > > > restore mouse focus on his Putty session? Or will he get
> > > > > distracted and order some Human Growth Hormone from a phishing
> > > > > site?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > <gag>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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