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Point and Laugh at Jason Bourne

Funny thing, I watched the new Bourne movie back to back with Nerve and I must say that bourne made me cringe and the Nerve movie actually portrayed technology extremely accurately.
 
"Government systems and networks storing classified and/or highly sensitive data are strictly segregated from remote authentication and access over open Internet channels, and maintain their own closed environments typically requiring on-site direct terminal access," says Peter Tran, GM and senior director at security firm RSA, in an email. There's a reference in the film to Edward Snowden, but he didn't hack anything. Snowden was a contractor who already had inside access.

Not true... I don't want to get political but I will just say there was a server owned by a candidate (i won't say who) that was filled with classified information that was open over internet channels and wasn't in its own closed environment.

It is true, the system I believe you were referring to was not a Government system and was in fact a privately owned and maintained system.
 
Yes.... privately owned... with classified information on it.
 
I walked out with 20 minutes.

Didn't care about the $15 i spent, it was that stupid.
 
I laughed out loud in the theater when I heard "Use SQL to disrupt their databases" and again when I saw a 192.256.x.x IP in the camera's focus. What a fucking joke. With all the money that goes into movies couldn't they hire some high school kid to vet the tech language in a movie?

Media companies are smart enough to know you can't use a real IP address in fiction, but they usually don't know or don't care to remember there's an actual block set aside for documentation purposes. (192.0.2.0/24, 203.0.113.0/24 and 198.51.100.0/24) Even shows like Mr. Robot use invalid numbers. You have to admit, those numbers aren't as memorable as 555-1212

I especially loved Nicky, the super hacker using an Atari 1040ST to hack into the CIA headquarters server!

Russian Sinclair Clone.
 
The movie as a whole? or the lack of technical realism?

Lack of technical realism was a big factor, but not the tipping point.

That tipping point was where they introduce the character who owns the social media company, and where he gives the talk about his company's products and potential all Zuckerburg style was where i said enough was enough. It was just dumb.

I already dislike the sub 30 y.o. hipster-billionaire tech-unicorn-owner-Zuckerburg trope as it is, and all of that being tied into the story line was just too much.
 
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I'm going to see the movie for the action. I know the techno babble is going to be bad. IN the trailer the first thing said is "We've been hancked, this could be worse than Snowden" I die a little every time I hear it as because from what I understand all he did was take the information that he had access to and leaked it. Like getting a whole of someone diary that was an open book and then telling people what's in it.
 
The information by and large that Snowden leaked was primarily about the NSA and other governments spying on their own populations, not about mass murders and secret military operations and programs training people to become killer almost robot-like assassins such as Treadstone (the main secret fictional program in the Bourne movies) and government sanctioned murders so, that's why they make the off-the-cuff remark about it being worse than Snowden. It's one thing to find out your country is spying on you, it's another to find out not only would they spy on you but would be more than happy to execute you in some manner then make it look accidental (which happens a lot more than people would dare believe).

And of course just mentioning Snowden at all in any respect is a way to tie in the overall paranoia which just creates an emotional connection as well.
 
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