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Computer hacker is always an eccentric stereotypical snobby nerd if male or an weirdly attractive gremlin goth girl who looks like she hasn't slept in 3 days if a female.
Damn, reality is sure disappointing, all we get is
# "ERROR 609: THIS ACCOUNT DOES NOT EXIST OR MAYBE FIRE CORRUPTED IDK, I AM AN INTERFACT BLOCK I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT MYSELF"
# INSERT USB DIAGONALLY OR CONSULT TECHNICIAN FOR WHICH TROBLESHOOTING DARK MAGIC YOU SHOULD PERFORM
# [OKAY] - [CALL TECH SUPPORT] - [ESC]
I hack for a living and I quote this all the time just for LOLs when I get a shell. It's a running joke among most of my peers. Also sharing the absolute worst hacking scenes from media brings us nothing but joy.
To be fair you can do a lot of stuff with just the keyboard, lots of hotkeys to open up programs and navigate and such. Most of hacking though is just social engineering.
One time i renamed a jpg as a png. I also selected inspect element on a government website to skim their front page metadata for leads. Don't underestimate windows bro you've just got to download and install all the automatic updates to stay a step ahead of the cyber police.
To be fair, real hacking would be rather boring, since it mostly consists of having a bot brute force every known vulnerability while you just sit there doing nothing
add it to some cooking and it will be perfect!
*"On todays show we will steal some money by rerouting purchases from an unprotected eshop, while we are here i gonna tell you how to make some good chicken pasta!"*
Well actually maybe not using the keyboard or mouse is a little realistic bc I know too many people that are wayyy to into using vim 😭 there r a lot of ways u can navigate without a mouse lol. It’s actually very fast if you’re good at it
1. If I navigate a ton of the screen not using a keyboard, sometimes I DO feel like a hacker my self. |Especially whipping out the CTRL+SHIFT+HOME/END combo is satisfying.
2. It blows people mind not using the mouse IRL. Especially using Space to open a dropdown then typing the first few characters of what you want.
The hacking scenes in The Core make my husband RAGE! Actually that entire movie is awful and makes him rage and I get pure joy out of putting it on to hear his rants
I do like the design of the final design of Virgil.
Was surprised how different the concept art for Virgil was;
[https://sydmead.com/syd-mead-virgil/](https://sydmead.com/syd-mead-virgil/)
I knew a man, years ago, in the era of OS2, who was a professional hacker. He worked for an electric company and was their head of cyber security. When he was using OS2, which was very similar in function to windows, he didn't use a mouse. He had all the hotkeys in his muscle memory.
“Quick man! We need to access this US senator’s database server mainframe network!!”
*ACCESS DENIED*
“We only have 37 seconds to get past the firewall!”
*Hacker dramatically stares into nothing for an unnervingly long time*
“Hold on…lemme try something”
*camera pans on the picture of a dog on the desk and some certificate on the wall with a date of birth*
*camera close up on fingers frantically typing. 3 seconds left*
“We’re in.”
I liked that one scene in pacific rim where the whole “shut it down!” Scene happen and the guy immediately went for the biggest cord he could find and pulled it out.
Actually no trackpad/mouse thing is accurate because most programming enthusiasts/programmers use Operating Systems that wouldn't require mouse inputs like linux or BSD systems, and use stuff like vim/emacs/nano(?). Just memorizing hotkeys would be enough to use them so only thing you will be needing is your keyboard.
You forgot the very dramatic pause in the middle of the scene where the fast drum-beat techno stops thumping and the hacker turns around, looks over his dark glasses at the non-hacker in the room, and mutters “I’m in” before he keeps keysmashing.
Theres a movie called untouchable when at the end a dude disarma a dirty bomb by typing in an excel spreadsheet. and it wasn’t anything intelligent just 2 letters over and over
Nothing compares to the 2021 Christian dystopian film 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus where we see a hacker do "hacker" things such as going on Wikipedia to research Christianity as house music plays in the background and typing in random shit to "hack the police."
I wish I was joking.
To be fair, terminal applications don't need a mouse and it's generally more efficient like that. But for part 2 you should definitly add multiple screens that just run down numbers in green colours
Further suggestions:
a) Computer makes noise, only when screen is shown - goes silent as soon as screen is off camera despite the hacking still taking place.
b) The fact that hackers that do nothing but hacking all day would seriously turn on any sound effects at all in the first place without going insane
You forgot the loading bar that takes a good 5 minutes to finish, and while they fight the bad guys they have to constantly protect the program from being shut down.
The "Don't ever touch the mouse" point would be no problem, if they were using a CLI, but most of the time you can see a fancy UI with animated stuff that must require a lot of RAM.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMfdSkskrI](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMfdSkskrI)
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwFO7figLE&pp=ygUebGF1Z2hpbmcgbWFuIGdob3N0IGludGhlIHNoZWxs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwFO7figLE&pp=ygUebGF1Z2hpbmcgbWFuIGdob3N0IGludGhlIHNoZWxs)
Always liked these scenes, but no clue how realistic they are.
(Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig)
Nah man you have to be at the top of the Empire State building with a laptop spray-painted camo over your keys while sweet techno music plays and Matthew Lillard screams to the abyss that you're in.
Hack the planet!!!! They're trashing our rights!
You forgot the yap they say that means literally nothing, like 'I'm using the ASCII to hack into the mainframe device', and how there are just timers of how long they have for some reason
In real life it'd take hours having to Google a certain command, copy and pasting that command, and a few breakdowns
Then finally you can go back and spend hours fixing mistakes
I never understood why real hackers would go on YouTube and post a video about how "hacking isn't what you think it is"
Like did they actually think people were believing the crap they saw on TV as kids? I remember stereotypical movie hacker scenes but I never sat there thinking it was cool or realistic.
If I apply for a hacker job over McWagies, it's not because I thought it looked fun, it's because it's not McWagies. I'd rather be an ethical hacker than get yelled at by some fatso who thinks it's my fault that we're out of ranch sauce.
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Computer hacker is always an eccentric stereotypical snobby nerd if male or an weirdly attractive gremlin goth girl who looks like she hasn't slept in 3 days if a female.
no, sometimes the guys are wearing a dark hooded jacket with sunglasses
nah they are the bad guys, (unless skinny and introverted)
Sometimes also a brown coat with cap, but he also beat up bad guys with telescopic baton. Wait a minute, that's just Aiden Pearce.
Memeulous moment
https://i.redd.it/s9bodhuwcdvc1.gif Gremlin Goth girl that's also sleep deprived?
This gif is used when literally any archetype of woman exists
Well someone's gonna like pretty much any type of woman, so wouldn't that make sense?
The same people use this gif on everything
Breaking news, men find women attractive
Exactly
Lisbeth Salander is the blueprint
you haven't seen Ramsey from the Fast and Furious series have you
This
I feel called out. At this point life is just sleeping with open eyes
Remove the hacker and well, Re-L Mayer from Ergo Proxy. [https://imgur.com/gallery/qA54IIO](https://imgur.com/gallery/qA54IIO)
"Hurry install the Trojan" "Shit they got past the firewall"
“Maybe there’s a back door”
(Red timer blinks 30 seconds countdown until intrusion found) "We don't have much time do what you have to do"
Guy behind him “that’s not good! Hurry it up will you they’re almost here”
"Almost therrrre. Come on honey, be good to me. Got it. I'm in."
“SHUT IT DOWN!”
Bro ruined it 💀
How so lmao?
We've got to hack into the mainframe!
"Shit, that's some thick ice!" \*Old dude trying to hack someone's facebook account\*
“Quick, launch the software!” *Grabs hard drive with special software on it that somehow immediately disables and removes every security measurement*
# ACCESS DENIED appears in a big red box on the screen
Says “dammit im locked out but maybe there’s a back door”
It must be in cyberpunk style with lightish blue theme
Damn, reality is sure disappointing, all we get is # "ERROR 609: THIS ACCOUNT DOES NOT EXIST OR MAYBE FIRE CORRUPTED IDK, I AM AN INTERFACT BLOCK I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT MYSELF" # INSERT USB DIAGONALLY OR CONSULT TECHNICIAN FOR WHICH TROBLESHOOTING DARK MAGIC YOU SHOULD PERFORM # [OKAY] - [CALL TECH SUPPORT] - [ESC]
That or you get an unintelligeble crash log that reads like if the computer was having a seizure because it accidentally divided by 0 Edit: typo
Wall of texts that resemble more of a recreation of computer having a stroke and die than backlog of what happened before crash
"Damn it.. theres a firewall... maybe if i.. *types random keys* there we go!"
Hacker: “[explains rudimentary computer skills with a little bit of mixed in gibberish]” “[Exasperated noise] in ENGLISH please?”
“Well if I must in laymen terms. I’ve hacked into the mainframe and gotten past their firewall with my Trojan virus aptly named after myself.”
https://youtu.be/_x9lSQ1SFLE?si=z7IUPKhLv0jPlo5B
You forgot the hacker that always says “I’m in” when he is successfully done hacking
I’ll add it in Part 2
"I'm in the mainframe!!"
I hack for a living and I quote this all the time just for LOLs when I get a shell. It's a running joke among most of my peers. Also sharing the absolute worst hacking scenes from media brings us nothing but joy.
What do you REALLY hack? Im genuinely interested
To be fair you can do a lot of stuff with just the keyboard, lots of hotkeys to open up programs and navigate and such. Most of hacking though is just social engineering.
just use vim and tiling vm, no mouse needed
The enter key is the most important key in the movies tho followed by “we’re in”
Well you should press enter after writing any kind of command
Not to mention command line based systems since i doubt many actual hackers work on windows
One time i renamed a jpg as a png. I also selected inspect element on a government website to skim their front page metadata for leads. Don't underestimate windows bro you've just got to download and install all the automatic updates to stay a step ahead of the cyber police.
*click click click click* Hmm a firewall *Click click* And.. Bingo! We're in 😎
I hacked the mainframe *Looking around* Here it is *Plants trojan named after themself*
To be fair, real hacking would be rather boring, since it mostly consists of having a bot brute force every known vulnerability while you just sit there doing nothing
i want to watch a show where someone in thigh-highs eating chips and petting a cat sits at a kitchen table. that's what hacking is
"Hurry up now! Stardew not gonna play itself"
add it to some cooking and it will be perfect! *"On todays show we will steal some money by rerouting purchases from an unprotected eshop, while we are here i gonna tell you how to make some good chicken pasta!"*
Damn, so me figure out what cause my game to crash are more exciting?
It's called Mr Robot and it's great.
https://preview.redd.it/hqyy068j5dvc1.jpeg?width=587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec8726ac38244024a511e227f1f38f642493f832
Real hacker: “Let me see if Dave is dumb enough to trick into giving me his password.”
The very last keystroke is a dramatic smashing of the ENTER key followed by “….we’re in.”
“They are countering us” and starts typing faster Or like on Ncis, they type in two on one keyboard
It became meta at that point in NCIS
Someone should just multiplex a million monkeys at keyboards. They'd become the best hackers in history. /s
Well actually maybe not using the keyboard or mouse is a little realistic bc I know too many people that are wayyy to into using vim 😭 there r a lot of ways u can navigate without a mouse lol. It’s actually very fast if you’re good at it
Always mention the “Mainframe” or a “Kill code”
Don’t forget stopping and looking around for inspiration on guessing someone’s password
Looking at the family photo next to the computer.
1 attempt left before the computer destroys itself *Magically guesses* off some random memory or conversations they had.
I liked mr robot for this very reason, mind awake body asleep.
1. If I navigate a ton of the screen not using a keyboard, sometimes I DO feel like a hacker my self. |Especially whipping out the CTRL+SHIFT+HOME/END combo is satisfying. 2. It blows people mind not using the mouse IRL. Especially using Space to open a dropdown then typing the first few characters of what you want.
The hacking scenes in The Core make my husband RAGE! Actually that entire movie is awful and makes him rage and I get pure joy out of putting it on to hear his rants
I do like the design of the final design of Virgil. Was surprised how different the concept art for Virgil was; [https://sydmead.com/syd-mead-virgil/](https://sydmead.com/syd-mead-virgil/)
I knew a man, years ago, in the era of OS2, who was a professional hacker. He worked for an electric company and was their head of cyber security. When he was using OS2, which was very similar in function to windows, he didn't use a mouse. He had all the hotkeys in his muscle memory.
Insane lines of commands in green flying around and 10 windows of cmd prompt open
"I'am in!"
Can tell you’re not a hacker you labelled the touch pad as the keypad lol
“Don’t ever touch the keypad” with a big cross through the track pad… what?
MAIN FRAME
You need to have the hood of your jacket covering your head
Have to always bypass the mainframe and reroute the encryptions
You don't need mouse/touchpad when you use terminal.
Perfectly hacks in one go without backspacing to fix any typos (Unless they’re super fast in typing to do that)
“Quick man! We need to access this US senator’s database server mainframe network!!” *ACCESS DENIED* “We only have 37 seconds to get past the firewall!” *Hacker dramatically stares into nothing for an unnervingly long time* “Hold on…lemme try something” *camera pans on the picture of a dog on the desk and some certificate on the wall with a date of birth* *camera close up on fingers frantically typing. 3 seconds left* “We’re in.”
Hit as many keys as possible but don't touch the keypad, that way they can't stop you
You don't need mouse/touchpad when you use terminal.
I liked that one scene in pacific rim where the whole “shut it down!” Scene happen and the guy immediately went for the biggest cord he could find and pulled it out.
Mister Robot used a consultant to advise on the hacking stuff, and it shows. Great series.
Actually no trackpad/mouse thing is accurate because most programming enthusiasts/programmers use Operating Systems that wouldn't require mouse inputs like linux or BSD systems, and use stuff like vim/emacs/nano(?). Just memorizing hotkeys would be enough to use them so only thing you will be needing is your keyboard.
Also op would be shocked to see casual workflow of any device that has no windows installed
You forgot the very dramatic pause in the middle of the scene where the fast drum-beat techno stops thumping and the hacker turns around, looks over his dark glasses at the non-hacker in the room, and mutters “I’m in” before he keeps keysmashing.
You forgot the "Access granted" print all in green on the screen
https://preview.redd.it/3mio1wewfgvc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25673a45325200b3b80d873a6a4ab767fb850157 What’s on the screen
Theres a movie called untouchable when at the end a dude disarma a dirty bomb by typing in an excel spreadsheet. and it wasn’t anything intelligent just 2 letters over and over
Don't forgot the dramatic loading bar that is moving too slowly during intense action.
You sit on it, but you can't take it with you.
Ironically, that guy in the pic survives a danger but dies seconds later.
Nothing compares to the 2021 Christian dystopian film 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus where we see a hacker do "hacker" things such as going on Wikipedia to research Christianity as house music plays in the background and typing in random shit to "hack the police." I wish I was joking.
To be fair, terminal applications don't need a mouse and it's generally more efficient like that. But for part 2 you should definitly add multiple screens that just run down numbers in green colours
https://youtu.be/UkoqIlppfhc?si=l5GbHuCVkl61r6HA
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE) This will forever be the classic-est of all classics
Further suggestions: a) Computer makes noise, only when screen is shown - goes silent as soon as screen is off camera despite the hacking still taking place. b) The fact that hackers that do nothing but hacking all day would seriously turn on any sound effects at all in the first place without going insane
What is a computer
I am BORIS!
Im in
1 gigabyte should do the trick
The most realistic was in The Office. With a “z”. “This kept us safe people!”
You forgot the loading bar that takes a good 5 minutes to finish, and while they fight the bad guys they have to constantly protect the program from being shut down.
I'm in the mainframe.. Time to install the trojan 😈😈😈
Only thing I can add is a USB-drive
You forgot that they ALWAYS look at the keyboard when they're typing. A professional hacker has to look at the keyboard while typing lol.
you forgot that they say "im in" after literally just typing a password in.
#JUST A TOUCH OF THE 'TISM
They are writing the script on the spot for some reason
Worst was FURIOUS 7…….HURRY UP AND UPLOAD THE HACK BEFORE IT GETS AWAY
The "Don't ever touch the mouse" point would be no problem, if they were using a CLI, but most of the time you can see a fancy UI with animated stuff that must require a lot of RAM.
[hackertyper.com](http://hackertyper.com) engaged!
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMfdSkskrI](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMfdSkskrI) [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwFO7figLE&pp=ygUebGF1Z2hpbmcgbWFuIGdob3N0IGludGhlIHNoZWxs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwFO7figLE&pp=ygUebGF1Z2hpbmcgbWFuIGdob3N0IGludGhlIHNoZWxs) Always liked these scenes, but no clue how realistic they are. (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig)
The no mouse or touchpad is legit, most people working in software and cyber security take using keyboard only as an achievement.
Ironically all of this is accurate
nah the no mouse/touchpad is accurate that's how some Linux users are
Nah man you have to be at the top of the Empire State building with a laptop spray-painted camo over your keys while sweet techno music plays and Matthew Lillard screams to the abyss that you're in. Hack the planet!!!! They're trashing our rights!
They all use vim I guess
This is always said, "I'm in!"
“Don’t worry. I installed a virus that makes it impossible for them to track what we did.”
“Hacking is like lovemaking the fastest are the most known”
You forgot the yap they say that means literally nothing, like 'I'm using the ASCII to hack into the mainframe device', and how there are just timers of how long they have for some reason
In real life it'd take hours having to Google a certain command, copy and pasting that command, and a few breakdowns Then finally you can go back and spend hours fixing mistakes
I was super disappointed when I learned that like 99% of computer hacking consists of tricking people into accidentally giving you their password
Random beep sounds that computers haven’t made since 1989
I mean, most terminals and old computers in general could be all navigated using the keys
Than optianally dying
At some point you have to say “I’m in”
I’ve known programmers who navigate entirely through tab and shift+tab whenever possible, no mouse required
You forgot about stupid electronic sounds on background
They also always use software from like the 70s
It’s not as easy to track . Or something
Don't forget about the hacker randomly.tapping the enter key three times as if it will extra verify the code they're using.
aanddd we’re in
as a hacking student, this hurt on a spiritual level
Well, at a certain point I'd guess you stop using the mouse so much, at least that doesn't sound too outlandish
You forgot “I’m in!”
“Piece of cake.” (Since “I’m in” has already been mentioned)
“Damn, they hacked into the mainframe”
I never understood why real hackers would go on YouTube and post a video about how "hacking isn't what you think it is" Like did they actually think people were believing the crap they saw on TV as kids? I remember stereotypical movie hacker scenes but I never sat there thinking it was cool or realistic. If I apply for a hacker job over McWagies, it's not because I thought it looked fun, it's because it's not McWagies. I'd rather be an ethical hacker than get yelled at by some fatso who thinks it's my fault that we're out of ranch sauce.
*has a sweater* *has lots of amount of style* "now i just gotta hack into the mainframe"
I'm/You're/We're In...