Shoutout to Wendell on his health journey, he's looking amazing, I'm in the process of losing weight myself and it's given me great appropriation and admiration for the willpower of everyone bettering themselves in the health side.
Basically all I hear in these shows is “I’m gonna type out a router html GUI to build a FireWire daemon with Cloudflare. The network will trojan the RAID throughput to point a cloud to rain bits of python piss on the hacker’s mainframe. Then we will tunnel through the power cord with the task manager and install a ZFS partition to spy on their rundll32 traffic.”
So basically a 'SANS ICS HyperEncabulator' from the makers of the original Rockwell Automations 'RetroEncabulator' which is a retro version of the Chrysler's 'TurboEncabulator'
If they keep making these, Wendell *has* to be a part of them. He adds so much. Love how he is always trying to figure out some way it could make sense.
Super Troopers had fun with the "Enhance!" thing, with Thorny saying "Enhance." to his computer over and over until the chief gets pissed and yells "Just print the damn picture!"
Linus, next time you go to do a merch shout out for the cargo pants in a video you should use the "Enchance, Enhance, Enhance, show pocket contents" and when it shows the contents be like "OH looks it's a message...from our sponsor!" Now that's a top tier segue, I'll be waiting for the job offer now 😂😊
While it's funny that these writers compete to write the most absurd tech scene, this is actually a problem that infects our court system. Police procedurals massively overstate the capabilities, efficacy, reliability, and certainty of forensic tools and techniques. This leads to the average juror trusting forensic "experts" and results far too much, which results in a lot of false convictions, especially when junk forensic "science" is used in the trial, like bite-mark or hair analysis, which is far more common than you'd think. Hell, even our best forensic techniques like DNA testing aren't infallible. A forensic expert might testify that the DNA could only belong to one in a million people and jurors would assume that means that the defendant is obviously guilty - except that they're in a city with a population of 6 million people, so that DNA could actually belong to 5 other people in that city alone and all the way up to 7,999 other people globally.
I remember this one documentary on wich they were trying to figure out origins of this one lampshade...The reason they were doing this was because of a rumor that it might be made out of human skin. And it was surprisingly hard to prove it wasn't. Actually multiple DNA tests were done on it, and it was shoving positive results for human DNA. But in the end they were able to demonstrate that it was just on the surface because many people had handled it over the years. And then there is the issue of what does a given piece of evidence actually mean? Say there is some hair, fingerprint or something... All that does by itself, is establish a fact that that piece of evidence ended up somehow at the scene. Even if we take a shortcut and say it proves suspect being present at the scene, it might not prove exact timeframe when suspect was at the scene. Now I am not saying forensic evidence would equal to zero... It just is not as easy to interpret as many believe. And just to add, there are some examples of forensic techniques turning out to be nonfuntional... Like at one point there were these GSR or gun shot residue tests, but later it turned out as they were taking these samples at police stations, the samples would end up too often just contaminated. I think early episodes of CSI they were basically spraying luminol just about everywhere... Wich was not too far from reality, but I think some documentary it was stated that they realized at some point there was a rather high probability of false positives. Basically it could react on itself, without any presense of things it was supposed to detect.
Theres a reason they only made a few CSI:Cyber episodes. The tech was so badly misconstrued, they were torn apart in every episode. You could do a whole series on that one program.
I was genuinely interested in it when it was first coming out, then I talked to a friend who is in Cyber Security and he tore it apart. I lost interest and can even tell how bad it is from my limited knowledge.
I was so excited when it was first advertised, because I like tech and I really liked Patricia Arquette in "Medium". But the first episode was so wildly bullshit that I just couldn't bring myself to watch beyond that.
I think this could be a really important series to educate the masses that the tech in shows is incredibly misleading. I would love to stop getting questions like "If they can make microchips in our bloostream that track us forever, why does my iphone only last a day?"
"NTSF:SD:SUV::" or "National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::" was indeed taking the piss. Incase the name didn't tip anynone else off. It was also hilarious.
@@joshvance8892 I think they got stitchd up by the person supplying the clips but, I would have thought Wendell would at least notice Kate "Captain Janeway" Mulgrew, even with the eye patch.
Actually, if you open a hard drive (even during operation), it is absolutely not dead immediately. I did that while playing a video from it during one of my lectures back in 2010. The HD already had bad blocks somewhere so it was not reliable anymore. It ran on and on and on, and only when I started to scratch the platter with a non-ltt-store screwdriver, it finally gave out. Plus, the pained "uhhh-s" and "oooow-s" of the 300+ students would have been worth destroying even a fully functional HDD.
This show proved why I get the weirdest tech questions from my parents. They watch these cheesy crimes shows lol. I think I remember my mom saying to me once "but they can still connect through the power cord though right?" when she was asking about if people could be spying on her when shes on Facebook lol
Bro, there were a lot of people who legitimately believed that power flowed through electrical wiring like a water hose all the way up into the 1950s. There are still some elderly people out there that think if you don't keep your electrical cords straight and unkinked, the power won't flow correctly.
CSI: Cyber was soooooo bad. What was even funnier was another series also set in NYC was Elementry, staring Jonny Lee Miller, who also stared in the movie Hackers. Elementry had some reasonably realistic "cyber" stuff, and at one point poked fun at CSI: Cyber.
They could do a whole episode or even a series like this video on Mr. Robot. And they should. I would even actually pay for floatplane if they did something like that.
I swear, TV Technology needs to be audited... My mom learned through TV shows that Hackers can view your password on notepad when you're not connected to any internet network. but continues to write her password on a physical notebook, where any strangers passing by can steal.
people who "learn" from movies/series are simply dumb to begin with and can be ignored. and tech isn't the only thing those people that "learn" from movies believe to be real, its by far worse with anything that involves laws and law enforcement - officers have to deal with that kind of bs on a daily basis as people "know better because they saw it in a series".
Recovering files without autosaving is pretty straightforward, just make a copy of the swapfile. Assuming she’s using MS Word, it’s the one with the name starting with a tilde beside the original file.
I recently took part in a CTF where one of the challenges was recovering unsaved work from a memory dump created during a blue screen, it's completely possible but takes a lot of time, but yeah most office apps create recovery copies that autosave even if you have autosave disabled for the original file
@@pwiiA couple of days ago I found out that modern MS Word does not support autosaving locally, outside of OneDrive. That's absolutely insane to me. It does support recovery copies, at least, but that's not the same.
That assumes it was swapped out. An OS not under memory pressure is unlikely to proactively swap out actively-used pieces of data (background stuff, sure).
@@Jmcgee1125 , I think he just used the wrong term. I too thought he meant memory swap file, but that isn't an entire dump of memory, and most of the time is empty (you can effectively run without one if you have enough memory). Sounds like he's talking about hidden recovery files made by MS Word.
I actually did write a GUI in Visual Basic at my one and only IT job. We ran an art website and it allowed my coworkers and I to preview and edit raw data from different vendors before we added it to the live site. It saved a lot of time and made it much easier to find errors and standardize presentation than sitting in front of massive excel spreadsheets
"Mastering out" the common term for PhD students that leave a PhD early with a masters degree is actually super common. PhD's are super weird and different from any other degree so lots of people feel pretty blindsided when they see what it really is. Totally, not a sign you're a failure, lots of people that get a PhD consider the people who mastered out to be the smarter ones. Plus PhD students(in Engineering) are almost exclusively paid to do research while Masters students need a secondary income, so if you want a Masters degree its much better financially to enroll as a PhD student and then leave early with a salary along the way. Masters degrees often have very similar job prospects of PhDs, and 4 more years to rise up the ladder at whatever company.
It's especially weird considering the large demand for tech jobs, on top of the fact that technology is changing faster than education can adapt, means an associates degree in IT from a community college is basically the same thing as a PhD in Computer Science. In terms of actually getting a job. There's also an expiration date on tech degrees. What you learned in microarchitecture in college in 2008 is now taught in gradeschool in some places.
What do you mean? I don't (currently) play any MMOs and don't know what you mean by "parsing." I was just caught off guard when he said Unreal Tournament, a first person shooter, in the middle of talking about MMOs
Not super related, but I miss Unreal Tournament sooooo fucking much. :( Sooo many features and UT99 was utterly revolutionary and even almost smacked id off their FPS throne, it was that good. Fuck Epic Games nowadays though. They've been complete scumbags to the Unreal community.
MMORPGs absolutely do have high scores, usually the score you can get on a raid/dungeon/arena, or sometimes in PvP activities. I guess these guys haven't gone that far into MMOs before, that's usually endgame stuff.
Have i not seen this? Edit: This is a different one, they were pretty close together in the upload schedule so it is kind of weird not to mention it is a part 2 in the intro. Could be intentionally or not. Edit: it says ep2 now!
If you wanted to rapidly throw together a UI in 2004 VB would be a perfectly valid tool. Time-wise not many things would be as fast and simple at that time. Sure it wouldn't be secure, robust or scalable but it would probably be up and working quicker than any other option. You don't need multithreading, strong typing or OO overheads to create a form with some buttons and outputs tied to an external application or process. There's good reason MS were still shipping core VB6 libraries 20+ years after it went EOL and over a decade after this show aired.
12:14 I just double checked using this video on UA-cam, and you can 100% lock to landscape on an iPhone (iPhone 14 Max if it matters). I believe it was introduced last year, so for most of the iOS' history, Linus, you're correct.
Holy shit it actually works on non-Pro Max phones now. But only within video media, it seems. In any other app like a browser, or even photos, it switches back to portrait lock. But at least I can lock YT to landscape now. That’s at least a little helpful, but I want it most with browsers and in the photos app, honestly. I believe Pro Max phones can lock anywhere, like an iPad. But non Max phones still cannot (I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro with the latest version of iOS installed.)
Regarding Enemy of the State, Jack Black's character does actually acknowledge the possibility of hallucination, although not using that term. The 3D hypothesized model of the bag they generate shows that the bag changed, and Jack Black does state that it's possible that it's nothing, because someone might have blocked the light and confused the algorithm. So he's basically stating that the algorithm could have made invalid assumptions and followed through to produce a complete - but totally invalid - result.
Serious question: Is there a flavor of Linux or something that aims to look like a hacker's computer from tv? I want a giant green SECURITY PROTOCOLS ENABLED when I connect to my vpn 🤣
The closest I can think of is the site Hacker Typer, where you can just slam all the keys like on TV and it spits out random, intimidating-looking code lol
@@freedustin Haha, I certainly wouldn't say "easily," looking at how long it took me to customize my first GNOME installation. Which was way less complex than what OP is looking for. But I'd certainly try it out if someone made this!
While it is true that at MIT some majors, such as mathematics, do award PhDs but not masters degrees, that is not the case for some other majors. While MIT does not offer a "computer forensics" masters (or PhD for that matter), MIT does offer master and doctoral degrees in computer science. Many students pursue a Master of Engineering degree in computer science from MIT with no intention of pursuing a PhD.
Wendell: "[...]the certificates and, like... there's a certain amount of suffering you have to go through as an iOS developer" EFFING TRUTH. iOS certs are a complete PITA. Apple's iOS dev center sucks tacos. I get the security argument but they make it damned near impossible to update an app, Test Flight sucks... The whole damned process just sucks. You can tell it was created by someone who values form over function with an overdose of paranoia which still doesn't completely address the security problem. As for MacGuyver and popping a drive open I've actually done it. I had a demo drive with NO CRITICAL DATA I used to use for demo purposes. Absolutely ran that thing bare open on a desk for giggles all the time.
I was just thinking along the same lines. I've lost track of how many old hdds I've plucked apart and put back together with clearly the wrong tools and no PPE/clean room. Only had one fail from being ripped apart, but I had the data backed up because it was my first time. Still wouldn't recommend anyone do it themselves as the actual platter diskettes are fragile and you'll definitely fuck something up if you're not paying 100% attention.
Older drives with higher tolerances do tend to keep on working after being opened. High-capacity modern drives, however, likely do get nuked by what she did.
All it takes is for 1 smaller than visible spec of dust to land on the platter to cause data loss. A few of them in the wrong places and you're hoping you have the budget to send it to the FBI who have the machine IMB built for them that can look via electron microscope to see, I believe, two or three layers of written 1's& 0's deep.
@@thebkg as data per area has grown sure but I can tell you I ran that drive in a classroom environment naked for somewhere around 60 hours with minimal loss.
he's right, but it's also supposed to be malware, what good is it if they need all of that??? if you have a code signing certificate you could just load code to do it anyway xD
Technically, it wasn't nonsense when she said she could make a GUI with VB to whatever... It's more of "Why would you do that when there's easier and better ways." Visual Basic *did* suck, but it was actually very easy to make GUI programs with. Nowadays, you would definitely be silly to use it when there's better options.
The nonsense was the gui to get info. I used VB to make GUI programs all the time as it was great for that. This was before MS threw everything behind C#.
@@sultanofsick It would totally make sense if what she meant by it was that she was making a GUI based on winforms using VB, where her code for tracking the IP might live behind the event listener for a button click. It's odd that she'd bother to do it in the first place, as the police should have licensed software even back in 2007 that would track the IP easily enough. Also that she even told them she was doing it, and more so in VB is the really weird part, normally you would just say you'd work on tracing the IP because your coworkers normally wouldn't give a hoot how you did it.
Just tried it. It does not lock it on landscape. It just go right back to portrait mode. It even says portrait Orientation lock when I turn it on. I used to care a lot about locking to landscape but not anymore since my phone is largely used for texting or reading. The picture zoom on the other hand.. Apple clearly wanted to piss people off with that shit.
@@Shadowninja1200 it's probably some bullshit about them not wanting iphone photos to appear blurry or pixelated to the layman when they zoom in too far.
you should take a look at blindspot coding scenes. sometimes they’re so ridiculous but then they throw in some jabs like roast a coding language or sth like that. it’s entertaining even if i cringe quite often, as a grad student physicist and software engineer.
I just love the general utter nonsense of tech scenes in shows and movies, I've learnt to just switch my brain off and enjoy the ride. As a programmer I especially love when they show a piece of "code" where I usually take a close look at what it contains which is almost always random or nonsense code that barely ever relates to the actual task the characters are trying to perform.
5:02 Regarding the whole “auto save was turned off” some programs if they crash will dump whatever file is open into the temp folder or detect it wasn’t closed properly and give you a prompt asking bff what you want to do with said file
Fun fact: We opened up an 80GB Seagate and ran Quake on it to see how long it would last running open in our dorm room. That drive lasted a WEEK running in the open in a filthy dorm room. I suspect it might have run longer but one of my room-mates poked the platter while it was running and it died that night. Can't speak for newer disks, but opening a disk wasn't an instant death sentence back then.
I mean even if it won't instantly kill the hard drive, why open it at all in the first place? All she did by opening it was decrease the possibility of all the data being intact on the disc.
Man I knew it changed. I saw the video this morning but didn't watch it and I had a feeling the thumbnail was different. That explains why. Possibly used part 3's thumbnail instead of pt2 by accident
11:57 I have said this for so many years.. let me zoom as far as I want!!! Stop stopping me from zooming further! I want to zoom more!! what can i only zoom x3 on a photo??
When we used to send an update to converter boxes in the field it would respond back allowing us to get a location within and area that the box would be at. From there could go out to the node that the box responded from and narrow down the location even further...
😂 Playing Monopoly with my young child. "No sweetie, you owe me £40 because your doggie landed on my train station..." "No Daddy, my doggie didn't land on your train station, he doesn't need trains because he can FLY! WHEEEEEEE!!" My daughter treats monopoly like NCIS treats Cyber Security. "Urr nurr, high drama, this bomb will explode us all!" 🙌HACKING🙌 "Oh, good, we stopped the bomb and we caught the baddies. "How exactly?" "Don't worry about it."
The comment on reddit is 100% true even if it's not from an actual writer. The best thing you can do in any production is to hide or straight up get the technical and scientific stupidity in your face while keeping the storytelling compelling and not break the immersion for typical audience. Or do it just for the fun of it, or to make a joke to editor or director etc. It's kinda like easter egg. Same goes for every aspect of any production. Most known example from sound design is the Wilhelm scream. Or the "Radio Chatter" you can't understand that says something like: "pew da pappa dii da" that you can hear in literally every emergency or police situation in every movie and series ever made. Which I first heard as a kid when I played SimCity 3000. It's the sound for building a police station if I remember it correctly. Sure, it's stock sound effect but it's more of a gag. Edit: To add to this, in bigger productions there's so many highly educated people that most of them really do understand how things work. In many cases they literally have to invent tech that doesn't exists just to get one shot that the director or art designer etc. wants.
For some time I did used to wonder am I just imagining things or is the exact same audio they used in SimCity just being used all over as "generic police radio chatter"... While it might have been quite easy and cheap to make similar'ish recordings by the thousands, it is kind of funny they use that particular one so often.
I want to see them react to Episode 15 of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, honestly, I think they did a really good job accurately setting up a hacking situation, especially considering this is a kdrama about a lawyer and not about tech. Edit: Actually now that I think about it, the attack vector the hackers in the show used is the same one that got LTT a while.
Tbh for me a lot of the time its just faster and more convenient to type out something on a terminal than to take my hand off of my keyboard and onto my mouse to just open up something or lookup something. It aint for everyone though
It's a lot quicker for complex tasks, like recursively finding all the .png files from the current folder and moving them all to a specific folder. Just doing that from the windows file explorer would take ages, for some reason the windows file search is god-awful
well you have to input commands somehow whether its over a GUI or CLI. difference is typing it in is slightly more knowlege taxing in theory faster and in most cases more flexible. Personally i still think (as a linux user) we need more GUIs. ps. also dont forget if we are typing it we are typing it befcuase its likely one and done if you need it often specially in combination with multiple other commands we write scripts or full programs pps. someone had to write that GUI
@@bigpod before pipewire I had a script that setup 8 audio loopbacks in pulseaudio, because although it was impossible to do reliably in windows it was A PITA setting up after every reboot in linux. now i just open qpwiregragh and it's done.
The scean of pulling the hardrive from the laptop reminds me of something from my professor when I was in Uni for cybersecurity. He used to work for the police and he said the amount of times data was lost by police or on scene foresnsic by turning off PCs was incredibly common. Devices that held data in Ram or were logged in and working to be shut down and everything encryped he said let many people who had cases built against them for months and made their job to find something illegal 100x harder. One of the worst ones he said was an officer who let someone who was in custody waiting for transport turn off multiple PCs as he "wanted to save on the energy".
Linus please review moondrop MIAD 01. In the time of no headphone jack and sd card it has two one 4.4 mm and 3.5 mm paired with quad-channel dual Cirrus Logic dac and 2tb of expandable store.
12:12 huh ive never noticed since i havent had a good reason to lock my phone in landscape mode (i did try it) but im pretty sure back in the day it would lock to whatever rotation you had it in at the time. like iphone 4 era. might be wrong tho that was a while ago
15:40 "when you open a hard drive it is now dead" That said, I opened a drive for a friend of a friend where they had all but assumed everything was lost (after dropping it on a hard surface, it no longer did anything), but asked if I could try. They gave me the drive (spinning rust in a USB enclosure) and a brand new external drive. I opened it, no clean-room and I wasn't even wearing gloves, and found that the actuator arm was jammed out of position. I gave it a light nudge and closed the drive back up. Connected it and the new drive to my computer, both were detected and I was able to copy everything from the old drive to the new one. I gave them both drives back, but recommended that they didn't use the old one anymore as I myself was surprised it worked long enough to get the data off of it.
3:42 back in the XP days I was a dumb high schooler who oc’d my south bridge and ran hardware RAID0 for my boot drive. I did in fact get a bsod right as I was printing a final paper (for a group project no less), and genuinely lost everything. The raid controller was fried, and I couldn’t rebuild the array to recover the data. Luckily my teacher actually believed me, so it didn’t affect our grade for the class
Video aside, I love how Luke is like always impressed by the segue line like each time he hears one. I wonder if Linus makes these up on the fly and if he cant think of one in the moment they write one
This is great! But what Corridor gets right with VFX Artists React is that they break down exactly "why" it's wrong for the lay person. Here, it feels like we only get "lol this is wrong"
Shoutout to Wendell on his health journey, he's looking amazing, I'm in the process of losing weight myself and it's given me great appropriation and admiration for the willpower of everyone bettering themselves in the health side.
....he got bitten by a tick and now can't eat a long list of foods.
He's really not terribly well.
@@Starscreamious huh?
@@Starscreamiouswait u fr?
@@Starscreamious Are you trolling? I feel like you're trolling
"I'm going to write a GUI in x86 assembly just to flex hopefully the malware hasn't done anything by then peace" 😂
heh Im going to do it in 1s and 0s
They are threatening the malware. Look what I can do. Imagine what I could do to you!
Will you be done by next month?
Basically all I hear in these shows is “I’m gonna type out a router html GUI to build a FireWire daemon with Cloudflare. The network will trojan the RAID throughput to point a cloud to rain bits of python piss on the hacker’s mainframe. Then we will tunnel through the power cord with the task manager and install a ZFS partition to spy on their rundll32 traffic.”
I burst out laughing. Congrats dude. Absolutely brilliant. These shows should hire you on the spot 😂
10/10 diaglouge right there. Would 100% watch that show.
This guy clearly is the anonymous writer from the reddit post.
Goid one 🤣
And then the other guy is like "... Delete your System32, mate."
So basically a 'SANS ICS HyperEncabulator' from the makers of the original Rockwell Automations 'RetroEncabulator' which is a retro version of the Chrysler's 'TurboEncabulator'
If they keep making these, Wendell *has* to be a part of them. He adds so much. Love how he is always trying to figure out some way it could make sense.
Super Troopers had fun with the "Enhance!" thing, with Thorny saying "Enhance." to his computer over and over until the chief gets pissed and yells "Just print the damn picture!"
JUST PRINT THE DAMN THING!
That joke never gets old in my office.
“They think I’m Mexican.” “You’re not…Mexican?”
That scene is great
In this famous Blade Runner scene even the perspective can be changed:
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“Finally someone who takes the direct approach”
“HEEWWAOAOAOAOHHHAOAOA 😮😮😮 YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!”
I love Luke's genuine reaction the the sponsor segue at the end.
Ooh hello there!!
Hey Ed's here!
What are you dong here? lol 😂
"ah shit, i got segue'd on"
"Because F*CK YOU! That's WHY!"
"Sounds like Apple." 🤣🤣🤣
this is why android is better
Linus, next time you go to do a merch shout out for the cargo pants in a video you should use the "Enchance, Enhance, Enhance, show pocket contents" and when it shows the contents be like "OH looks it's a message...from our sponsor!"
Now that's a top tier segue, I'll be waiting for the job offer now 😂😊
THAT'S GENIUS, DUUUUUDEEE
you outsegued linus, that's a big achievement
While it's funny that these writers compete to write the most absurd tech scene, this is actually a problem that infects our court system.
Police procedurals massively overstate the capabilities, efficacy, reliability, and certainty of forensic tools and techniques. This leads to the average juror trusting forensic "experts" and results far too much, which results in a lot of false convictions, especially when junk forensic "science" is used in the trial, like bite-mark or hair analysis, which is far more common than you'd think.
Hell, even our best forensic techniques like DNA testing aren't infallible. A forensic expert might testify that the DNA could only belong to one in a million people and jurors would assume that means that the defendant is obviously guilty - except that they're in a city with a population of 6 million people, so that DNA could actually belong to 5 other people in that city alone and all the way up to 7,999 other people globally.
I remember this one documentary on wich they were trying to figure out origins of this one lampshade...The reason they were doing this was because of a rumor that it might be made out of human skin. And it was surprisingly hard to prove it wasn't. Actually multiple DNA tests were done on it, and it was shoving positive results for human DNA. But in the end they were able to demonstrate that it was just on the surface because many people had handled it over the years.
And then there is the issue of what does a given piece of evidence actually mean? Say there is some hair, fingerprint or something... All that does by itself, is establish a fact that that piece of evidence ended up somehow at the scene. Even if we take a shortcut and say it proves suspect being present at the scene, it might not prove exact timeframe when suspect was at the scene.
Now I am not saying forensic evidence would equal to zero... It just is not as easy to interpret as many believe.
And just to add, there are some examples of forensic techniques turning out to be nonfuntional... Like at one point there were these GSR or gun shot residue tests, but later it turned out as they were taking these samples at police stations, the samples would end up too often just contaminated. I think early episodes of CSI they were basically spraying luminol just about everywhere... Wich was not too far from reality, but I think some documentary it was stated that they realized at some point there was a rather high probability of false positives. Basically it could react on itself, without any presense of things it was supposed to detect.
Theres a reason they only made a few CSI:Cyber episodes. The tech was so badly misconstrued, they were torn apart in every episode. You could do a whole series on that one program.
I didn't even that Csi cyber existed
Funny thing is, even though Im a nerd I actually liked that show. Even with all the "hacking" bullshit xD
I was genuinely interested in it when it was first coming out, then I talked to a friend who is in Cyber Security and he tore it apart. I lost interest and can even tell how bad it is from my limited knowledge.
I was so excited when it was first advertised, because I like tech and I really liked Patricia Arquette in "Medium". But the first episode was so wildly bullshit that I just couldn't bring myself to watch beyond that.
Guys this is a really exciting series keep 'em coming...
I think this could be a really important series to educate the masses that the tech in shows is incredibly misleading. I would love to stop getting questions like "If they can make microchips in our bloostream that track us forever, why does my iphone only last a day?"
Have you seen the views on this video? They will never make one again, guaranteed.
@@pdblouintrue but it takes like no money to react to videos lol
"isn't this a reflection on the decay of society" That was so out of pocket and unbelievably profound hahaha
you need to watch links with friends ;)
Let’s zoom in on that reflection and enhance!
10:51 A GUI interface? A graphical user interface interface? 🤨
Same as eATX... "Extended Advanced Technology eXtended"
ATM Machine
"NTSF:SD:SUV::" or "National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::" was indeed taking the piss. Incase the name didn't tip anynone else off. It was also hilarious.
Yeah this was like calling out Our Flag Means Death for inaccurate pirate lore.
@@joshvance8892 I think they got stitchd up by the person supplying the clips but, I would have thought Wendell would at least notice Kate "Captain Janeway" Mulgrew, even with the eye patch.
The problem with that is National Terrorism Strike Force would be NTSF not NTFS so it would actually National Terrorism Force Strike. lol
@@zachariahberger4260 Whoops, my bad, I shall correct the typo. I accidently defaulted to file system mode.
Federal Unit for Covert Kinetics.
Actually, if you open a hard drive (even during operation), it is absolutely not dead immediately. I did that while playing a video from it during one of my lectures back in 2010. The HD already had bad blocks somewhere so it was not reliable anymore. It ran on and on and on, and only when I started to scratch the platter with a non-ltt-store screwdriver, it finally gave out. Plus, the pained "uhhh-s" and "oooow-s" of the 300+ students would have been worth destroying even a fully functional HDD.
This show proved why I get the weirdest tech questions from my parents. They watch these cheesy crimes shows lol. I think I remember my mom saying to me once "but they can still connect through the power cord though right?" when she was asking about if people could be spying on her when shes on Facebook lol
Like when my mother asked me the other day if electric vehicles still use a combustion engine?
@@jimgrim2138 Yea. it's all starting to make sense now xD
@@jimgrim2138well the hybrids do, though I'm quite certain she wasn't meaning those
@@jimgrim2138Hybrid vehicles do. Soooooo, it's not a completely strange question.
Bro, there were a lot of people who legitimately believed that power flowed through electrical wiring like a water hose all the way up into the 1950s. There are still some elderly people out there that think if you don't keep your electrical cords straight and unkinked, the power won't flow correctly.
CSI: Cyber was soooooo bad. What was even funnier was another series also set in NYC was Elementry, staring Jonny Lee Miller, who also stared in the movie Hackers. Elementry had some reasonably realistic "cyber" stuff, and at one point poked fun at CSI: Cyber.
Do mr robot dammit!
thats actually a pretty accurate hacking show FOR ONCE
The computer part is actually pretty accurate
@@BackSlashJvb125 All the better to show how to do it right. I fully admit I didn't know about Signal until Mr. Robot.
Or Halt and Catch Fire!
They could do a whole episode or even a series like this video on Mr. Robot. And they should. I would even actually pay for floatplane if they did something like that.
15:30 the fucking 180 on that was amazing, went from pretty logical to fucking stupid in 0.5 seconds flat!
"Zoom, Enhance" can also be a reference back to the OG bladerunner.
ive been watching the 90s TV drama The Pretender lately and so much of it feels just like this.
Lol, Wendell with the Lewis Black reference, "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."
I swear, TV Technology needs to be audited... My mom learned through TV shows that Hackers can view your password on notepad when you're not connected to any internet network. but continues to write her password on a physical notebook, where any strangers passing by can steal.
people who "learn" from movies/series are simply dumb to begin with and can be ignored.
and tech isn't the only thing those people that "learn" from movies believe to be real, its by far worse with anything that involves laws and law enforcement - officers have to deal with that kind of bs on a daily basis as people "know better because they saw it in a series".
Recovering files without autosaving is pretty straightforward, just make a copy of the swapfile.
Assuming she’s using MS Word, it’s the one with the name starting with a tilde beside the original file.
I recently took part in a CTF where one of the challenges was recovering unsaved work from a memory dump created during a blue screen, it's completely possible but takes a lot of time, but yeah most office apps create recovery copies that autosave even if you have autosave disabled for the original file
@@pwiiA couple of days ago I found out that modern MS Word does not support autosaving locally, outside of OneDrive. That's absolutely insane to me. It does support recovery copies, at least, but that's not the same.
That assumes it was swapped out. An OS not under memory pressure is unlikely to proactively swap out actively-used pieces of data (background stuff, sure).
@@Jmcgee1125 , I think he just used the wrong term. I too thought he meant memory swap file, but that isn't an entire dump of memory, and most of the time is empty (you can effectively run without one if you have enough memory). Sounds like he's talking about hidden recovery files made by MS Word.
@@JimBob1937 not a swapfile, but bluescreens do make a dump of memory
I actually did write a GUI in Visual Basic at my one and only IT job. We ran an art website and it allowed my coworkers and I to preview and edit raw data from different vendors before we added it to the live site. It saved a lot of time and made it much easier to find errors and standardize presentation than sitting in front of massive excel spreadsheets
"Mastering out" the common term for PhD students that leave a PhD early with a masters degree is actually super common. PhD's are super weird and different from any other degree so lots of people feel pretty blindsided when they see what it really is. Totally, not a sign you're a failure, lots of people that get a PhD consider the people who mastered out to be the smarter ones.
Plus PhD students(in Engineering) are almost exclusively paid to do research while Masters students need a secondary income, so if you want a Masters degree its much better financially to enroll as a PhD student and then leave early with a salary along the way.
Masters degrees often have very similar job prospects of PhDs, and 4 more years to rise up the ladder at whatever company.
That is weird, in my country you need masters degree to start a PhD
@@Michalosnup i guess here they're talking about combined pathways, where you can get masters+phd in one go
It's especially weird considering the large demand for tech jobs, on top of the fact that technology is changing faster than education can adapt, means an associates degree in IT from a community college is basically the same thing as a PhD in Computer Science.
In terms of actually getting a job. There's also an expiration date on tech degrees. What you learned in microarchitecture in college in 2008 is now taught in gradeschool in some places.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli I am not so sure of that. Starting salaries with a PhD in CS can be very high.
16:09 is the funniest thing because i was genuinely shocked he was telling the truth and not taking the piss, it sounds so unbelieveable
OH man you can't make fun of "NTSF:SD:SUV" that was a parody show making fun of this exact stuff! (I guess they did mention that, kinda)
I forgot about NTSF:SD:SUV:: and I am beyond happy that you started with that show!
Guys are talking about having a high score in MMORPGs and the Wendell just says out loud: "Unreal Tournament."
I'm glad to hear people still talking about Unreal today but in the context of MMORPGs? X) Kinda broke my immersion a bit there
@@AsilarWindsailor Isn't parsing a big part of MMOs today?
What do you mean? I don't (currently) play any MMOs and don't know what you mean by "parsing." I was just caught off guard when he said Unreal Tournament, a first person shooter, in the middle of talking about MMOs
Not super related, but I miss Unreal Tournament sooooo fucking much. :( Sooo many features and UT99 was utterly revolutionary and even almost smacked id off their FPS throne, it was that good. Fuck Epic Games nowadays though. They've been complete scumbags to the Unreal community.
MMORPGs absolutely do have high scores, usually the score you can get on a raid/dungeon/arena, or sometimes in PvP activities.
I guess these guys haven't gone that far into MMOs before, that's usually endgame stuff.
I LOVE the "if it weren't for my horse" reference. Quote from my favorite comedian.
Have i not seen this?
Edit: This is a different one, they were pretty close together in the upload schedule so it is kind of weird not to mention it is a part 2 in the intro. Could be intentionally or not.
Edit: it says ep2 now!
Yeah, same
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It's in the description.
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If you wanted to rapidly throw together a UI in 2004 VB would be a perfectly valid tool. Time-wise not many things would be as fast and simple at that time. Sure it wouldn't be secure, robust or scalable but it would probably be up and working quicker than any other option. You don't need multithreading, strong typing or OO overheads to create a form with some buttons and outputs tied to an external application or process. There's good reason MS were still shipping core VB6 libraries 20+ years after it went EOL and over a decade after this show aired.
12:14 I just double checked using this video on UA-cam, and you can 100% lock to landscape on an iPhone (iPhone 14 Max if it matters). I believe it was introduced last year, so for most of the iOS' history, Linus, you're correct.
it works with fullscreen on youtube, but when i tried on safari (not watching a video) it instantly put me in portrait mode
Holy shit it actually works on non-Pro Max phones now. But only within video media, it seems. In any other app like a browser, or even photos, it switches back to portrait lock.
But at least I can lock YT to landscape now. That’s at least a little helpful, but I want it most with browsers and in the photos app, honestly.
I believe Pro Max phones can lock anywhere, like an iPad. But non Max phones still cannot (I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro with the latest version of iOS installed.)
@@brickson98m i also use a non-plus/max iphone
Regarding Enemy of the State, Jack Black's character does actually acknowledge the possibility of hallucination, although not using that term. The 3D hypothesized model of the bag they generate shows that the bag changed, and Jack Black does state that it's possible that it's nothing, because someone might have blocked the light and confused the algorithm. So he's basically stating that the algorithm could have made invalid assumptions and followed through to produce a complete - but totally invalid - result.
Serious question: Is there a flavor of Linux or something that aims to look like a hacker's computer from tv? I want a giant green SECURITY PROTOCOLS ENABLED when I connect to my vpn 🤣
if it exists it should be called ncOS.
closest thing I know is an application called eDEX-UI, it's an archived project though.
Not really but hey, Linux is fully customizable so if that's what you want you can easily make it so.
The closest I can think of is the site Hacker Typer, where you can just slam all the keys like on TV and it spits out random, intimidating-looking code lol
@@freedustin Haha, I certainly wouldn't say "easily," looking at how long it took me to customize my first GNOME installation. Which was way less complex than what OP is looking for. But I'd certainly try it out if someone made this!
While it is true that at MIT some majors, such as mathematics, do award PhDs but not masters degrees, that is not the case for some other majors. While MIT does not offer a "computer forensics" masters (or PhD for that matter), MIT does offer master and doctoral degrees in computer science. Many students pursue a Master of Engineering degree in computer science from MIT with no intention of pursuing a PhD.
Wendell: "[...]the certificates and, like... there's a certain amount of suffering you have to go through as an iOS developer" EFFING TRUTH. iOS certs are a complete PITA. Apple's iOS dev center sucks tacos. I get the security argument but they make it damned near impossible to update an app, Test Flight sucks... The whole damned process just sucks. You can tell it was created by someone who values form over function with an overdose of paranoia which still doesn't completely address the security problem.
As for MacGuyver and popping a drive open I've actually done it. I had a demo drive with NO CRITICAL DATA I used to use for demo purposes. Absolutely ran that thing bare open on a desk for giggles all the time.
I was just thinking along the same lines. I've lost track of how many old hdds I've plucked apart and put back together with clearly the wrong tools and no PPE/clean room. Only had one fail from being ripped apart, but I had the data backed up because it was my first time.
Still wouldn't recommend anyone do it themselves as the actual platter diskettes are fragile and you'll definitely fuck something up if you're not paying 100% attention.
Older drives with higher tolerances do tend to keep on working after being opened. High-capacity modern drives, however, likely do get nuked by what she did.
All it takes is for 1 smaller than visible spec of dust to land on the platter to cause data loss. A few of them in the wrong places and you're hoping you have the budget to send it to the FBI who have the machine IMB built for them that can look via electron microscope to see, I believe, two or three layers of written 1's& 0's deep.
@@thebkg as data per area has grown sure but I can tell you I ran that drive in a classroom environment naked for somewhere around 60 hours with minimal loss.
he's right, but it's also supposed to be malware, what good is it if they need all of that??? if you have a code signing certificate you could just load code to do it anyway xD
I love when Red Dwarf did the zoom and enhance bit. It was brilliant! Also this series is sweet! I hope we get more of it in the future.
Technically, it wasn't nonsense when she said she could make a GUI with VB to whatever... It's more of "Why would you do that when there's easier and better ways." Visual Basic *did* suck, but it was actually very easy to make GUI programs with. Nowadays, you would definitely be silly to use it when there's better options.
No, it was nonsense. None of the "computer words" she said had anything to do with actually solving the problem. Even if you COULD do those things.
The nonsense was the gui to get info. I used VB to make GUI programs all the time as it was great for that. This was before MS threw everything behind C#.
@@sultanofsick It would totally make sense if what she meant by it was that she was making a GUI based on winforms using VB, where her code for tracking the IP might live behind the event listener for a button click. It's odd that she'd bother to do it in the first place, as the police should have licensed software even back in 2007 that would track the IP easily enough. Also that she even told them she was doing it, and more so in VB is the really weird part, normally you would just say you'd work on tracing the IP because your coworkers normally wouldn't give a hoot how you did it.
12:15 Actually you can lock it to landscape by adding the control to the control center.
Don't forget the critical steps: zoom, enhance, zoom, enhance.
It’s not even in the control center. It’s built into the phone. Did he mean the camera? I thought he meant the phone in general
Just tried it. It does not lock it on landscape. It just go right back to portrait mode. It even says portrait Orientation lock when I turn it on. I used to care a lot about locking to landscape but not anymore since my phone is largely used for texting or reading.
The picture zoom on the other hand.. Apple clearly wanted to piss people off with that shit.
@@Shadowninja1200 it's probably some bullshit about them not wanting iphone photos to appear blurry or pixelated to the layman when they zoom in too far.
11:07 I can't believe he went with a Luis Black joke! LOVE IT!
you should take a look at blindspot coding scenes. sometimes they’re so ridiculous but then they throw in some jabs like roast a coding language or sth like that. it’s entertaining even if i cringe quite often, as a grad student physicist and software engineer.
I just love the general utter nonsense of tech scenes in shows and movies, I've learnt to just switch my brain off and enjoy the ride. As a programmer I especially love when they show a piece of "code" where I usually take a close look at what it contains which is almost always random or nonsense code that barely ever relates to the actual task the characters are trying to perform.
Love these. Also that one guy asking to “rotate 75° across the vertical”: They rotate consistently like 180° if not more.
That was a real look of pain when Wendell was talking about iOS development.
5:02
Regarding the whole “auto save was turned off” some programs if they crash will dump whatever file is open into the temp folder or detect it wasn’t closed properly and give you a prompt asking bff what you want to do with said file
The most confusing part is 8:41 with Captain Janeway wearing an eye patch.
That's what seven years of keeping your eye on Tom Paris in the Delta Quadrant does to you. Thoughts and prayers.
Fun fact: We opened up an 80GB Seagate and ran Quake on it to see how long it would last running open in our dorm room.
That drive lasted a WEEK running in the open in a filthy dorm room. I suspect it might have run longer but one of my room-mates poked the platter while it was running and it died that night.
Can't speak for newer disks, but opening a disk wasn't an instant death sentence back then.
I mean even if it won't instantly kill the hard drive, why open it at all in the first place? All she did by opening it was decrease the possibility of all the data being intact on the disc.
My question is where's that remote controlled cockroach from the thumbnail
in part 3?
@@Frankon81 hopefully
Man I knew it changed. I saw the video this morning but didn't watch it and I had a feeling the thumbnail was different. That explains why. Possibly used part 3's thumbnail instead of pt2 by accident
Glad you fixed the thumbnails. Only OGs know there’s a remote controlled cockroach somewhere 😎
PLEASE keep making these, They are AWESOME!
Loved Wendell's input on this, such a humble and knowledgeable dude.
I am LOVING these. Please keep them coming.
I’m a pilot and a career air traffic controller, and have all the rage watching aviation scenes in tv and movies. I feel all of this.
You need to do "Red Dwarf" when they are doing the insane zoom and stuff. That was hilarious!
I scrolled down to make sure that scene was mentioned.
Great show
they'll probably take it too seriously again lol
Loved zooming in on this video to the LTT logo on the shirt while playing on my iPad when Linus is talking about apple not allowing you to do that…. 😅
11:57 I have said this for so many years.. let me zoom as far as I want!!! Stop stopping me from zooming further! I want to zoom more!! what can i only zoom x3 on a photo??
you guys should collab with corridor digital! that would be awesome! best series ever!
OOOOOH ITS PART THE ii
electric boogaloo
When we used to send an update to converter boxes in the field it would respond back allowing us to get a location within and area that the box would be at. From there could go out to the node that the box responded from and narrow down the location even further...
😂 Playing Monopoly with my young child. "No sweetie, you owe me £40 because your doggie landed on my train station..."
"No Daddy, my doggie didn't land on your train station, he doesn't need trains because he can FLY! WHEEEEEEE!!"
My daughter treats monopoly like NCIS treats Cyber Security.
"Urr nurr, high drama, this bomb will explode us all!"
🙌HACKING🙌
"Oh, good, we stopped the bomb and we caught the baddies.
"How exactly?"
"Don't worry about it."
You play Monopoly with your young daughter? Do you... do you not value your relationship with her? 😂
id actually watch y'all talk about these scenes for probably an hour that was a lotta fun
The comment on reddit is 100% true even if it's not from an actual writer. The best thing you can do in any production is to hide or straight up get the technical and scientific stupidity in your face while keeping the storytelling compelling and not break the immersion for typical audience. Or do it just for the fun of it, or to make a joke to editor or director etc. It's kinda like easter egg. Same goes for every aspect of any production. Most known example from sound design is the Wilhelm scream. Or the "Radio Chatter" you can't understand that says something like: "pew da pappa dii da" that you can hear in literally every emergency or police situation in every movie and series ever made. Which I first heard as a kid when I played SimCity 3000. It's the sound for building a police station if I remember it correctly. Sure, it's stock sound effect but it's more of a gag.
Edit: To add to this, in bigger productions there's so many highly educated people that most of them really do understand how things work. In many cases they literally have to invent tech that doesn't exists just to get one shot that the director or art designer etc. wants.
For some time I did used to wonder am I just imagining things or is the exact same audio they used in SimCity just being used all over as "generic police radio chatter"... While it might have been quite easy and cheap to make similar'ish recordings by the thousands, it is kind of funny they use that particular one so often.
We definitely need more of these. Love Wendell's input and expertise and really enjoy the content.
I love that you are doing this series now, love to see clever inspiration taken from fellow video cracks
I want to see them react to Episode 15 of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, honestly, I think they did a really good job accurately setting up a hacking situation, especially considering this is a kdrama about a lawyer and not about tech.
Edit: Actually now that I think about it, the attack vector the hackers in the show used is the same one that got LTT a while.
People on this TV shows are like linux users typing lines of code for the most menial and banal tasks in a computer
Tbh for me a lot of the time its just faster and more convenient to type out something on a terminal than to take my hand off of my keyboard and onto my mouse to just open up something or lookup something.
It aint for everyone though
It's a lot quicker for complex tasks, like recursively finding all the .png files from the current folder and moving them all to a specific folder. Just doing that from the windows file explorer would take ages, for some reason the windows file search is god-awful
well you have to input commands somehow whether its over a GUI or CLI. difference is typing it in is slightly more knowlege taxing in theory faster and in most cases more flexible.
Personally i still think (as a linux user) we need more GUIs.
ps. also dont forget if we are typing it we are typing it befcuase its likely one and done if you need it often specially in combination with multiple other commands we write scripts or full programs
pps. someone had to write that GUI
@@bigpod before pipewire I had a script that setup 8 audio loopbacks in pulseaudio, because although it was impossible to do reliably in windows it was A PITA setting up after every reboot in linux. now i just open qpwiregragh and it's done.
Nobody ever uses the right click to do things faster! XD
I unironically very much enjoy linustechtips react content. More please
I thought Corridor made a new series lmao
In the first episode they state that they decided to copy Corridors vfx artist react homework when making this series
It literally says shout out to corridor in the intro and previous episode they said it in person
I’m so glad Wendell stepped from behind the monitors. I loved his input on other tech channels back in the day. So damn knowledgeable!
lukes "ah!" at the end when he realized he got got by the segway was a laugh i wan not expecting 😂
*segue
@katylar nah, didn't you see Luke was run over by a rogue segway?
Guess you should've enhanced more
Absolutely love the Lewis Black standup reference from Wendell
I love watching nerds get mad at the unrealistic technology of shows my teenage niece watches.
Man I love this series. This should become a regular weekly thing.
Amanda from Smosh at 3:10 😂
I don't think that's her? It definitely doesn't sound like her.
The scean of pulling the hardrive from the laptop reminds me of something from my professor when I was in Uni for cybersecurity.
He used to work for the police and he said the amount of times data was lost by police or on scene foresnsic by turning off PCs was incredibly common. Devices that held data in Ram or were logged in and working to be shut down and everything encryped he said let many people who had cases built against them for months and made their job to find something illegal 100x harder.
One of the worst ones he said was an officer who let someone who was in custody waiting for transport turn off multiple PCs as he "wanted to save on the energy".
Linus please review moondrop MIAD 01. In the time of no headphone jack and sd card it has two one 4.4 mm and 3.5 mm paired with quad-channel dual Cirrus Logic dac and 2tb of expandable store.
Always love it when linus talk about his difficulties with Apple OSs
For a second I thought this was a re-upload lol
12:12 huh ive never noticed since i havent had a good reason to lock my phone in landscape mode (i did try it) but im pretty sure back in the day it would lock to whatever rotation you had it in at the time. like iphone 4 era. might be wrong tho that was a while ago
I thought my notification glitched out, the title is too similar
Btw, an 2.5 hdd can still functioning after opening it. An old school buddy replaced the top plate with plexiglass and it still functioned🤷🏼♂️
They need to explain the true way things work instead of just saying "it doesn't work that way"
Yooo, NTSF SD SUV. Best comedy show ever i used to watch. We need more parody shows/movies
15:40 "when you open a hard drive it is now dead"
That said, I opened a drive for a friend of a friend where they had all but assumed everything was lost (after dropping it on a hard surface, it no longer did anything), but asked if I could try.
They gave me the drive (spinning rust in a USB enclosure) and a brand new external drive.
I opened it, no clean-room and I wasn't even wearing gloves, and found that the actuator arm was jammed out of position. I gave it a light nudge and closed the drive back up.
Connected it and the new drive to my computer, both were detected and I was able to copy everything from the old drive to the new one.
I gave them both drives back, but recommended that they didn't use the old one anymore as I myself was surprised it worked long enough to get the data off of it.
I would LOVE to see you guys do a "Mr. Robot" one. Really curious as to what is and isn't plausible in there.
3:42 back in the XP days I was a dumb high schooler who oc’d my south bridge and ran hardware RAID0 for my boot drive. I did in fact get a bsod right as I was printing a final paper (for a group project no less), and genuinely lost everything. The raid controller was fried, and I couldn’t rebuild the array to recover the data. Luckily my teacher actually believed me, so it didn’t affect our grade for the class
That Lewis black line earned my like today. “If it weren’t for that horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college “
Video aside, I love how Luke is like always impressed by the segue line like each time he hears one. I wonder if Linus makes these up on the fly and if he cant think of one in the moment they write one
This series is the BEST thing ever. Please keep making them.
The world needs more of these episodes.
Love the Lewis Black reference! that sentence is stuck in my head forever.
If you guys do this again, I suggest checking out Mr. Robot for accurate TV show representation
From a brief google search, the blue screen of death may actually be trademarked. That is probably why they didn’t use a real one in NCIS
"Scorpion" is actually a gold mine of these.
Yay for another one, I could watch these all day. So fun!
I hope this becomes a series, that was a lot of fun to watch.
This is great! But what Corridor gets right with VFX Artists React is that they break down exactly "why" it's wrong for the lay person. Here, it feels like we only get "lol this is wrong"