Digital security and encryption in Movies and TV Shows are in a superposition of being unbreakable and weak, depending on plot convienience.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cryptography in movies is more akin to magic than to actual cryptography.

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Whoever mashes the keyboard best.

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    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      While speaking the proper expositional incantations.

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    & computers generally O.O’

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Aren’t most things if you know more in those fields than the average joe?

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just for once, I’d like to see Gibbs ask how soon to decrypt the laptop, and Abby tell him, “Literally about 3 million years”.

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• IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Passwords in movies NEVER adhere to best practices. They’re virtually always a word or phrase that’s all lowercase, has no numbers, no punctuation, etc.

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unless it’s a phone in which case it probably has no password at all!

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I learned this week that Microsoft keeps a copy of your keys when you encrypt your hdd with their software. So you don’t need a black hat, all you need is a subpoena.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To be fair, if microsoft didnt automatically backup the keys, a simple BIOS/UEFI setting change, or windows update could trip the Secure Boot settings, which would clear all the TPM keys from the system, which means the sysyem would prompt you for the recovery key. I think people value being able retain access to their data over encryption. And to Microsoft’s credit, its not exactly a secret, they literally tell you that the key will be uploaded.

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      a simple BIOS/UEFI setting change, or windows update could trip the Secure Boot settings they could work around that though, but I still agree that backing up the passphrase to an arguably safe online system is good

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Only a stupid cybercriminal would use Windows

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or a smart one knowing exactly what they can and can’t do touching Windows.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Plot armor applies to anything and everything that must be protected for the plot to move forward. The systems of the protagonist are untouchable while the systems of the villain can be hacked in a few minutes.

  What’s the opposite of armor though? Some sort of weakness maybe? Why does the villain live in an underground bunker that is made out of dynamite or something extremely flammable? The protagonist never has comical weaknesses like that, while the villain has several.

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• sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  you could say the same about padlocks in movies

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Star Wars EU was nice, some kind of a universe where asymmetric encryption is much less certain than IRL, but at the same time if something is encrypted and you don’t have a key or a lot of power, having a “hacker” (a “slicer”, an “icebreaker”, whatever) won’t help.

  That wasn’t intentional probably, just necessary for good writing. Writer’s skill and intelligence usually affect their understanding of computers, if they are writing science fiction.

  Except, of course, for a few stupider than most places. “Wraith Squadron”'s bothan hacker being the worst.

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