Masterminds, 1997
I’ve never seen the movie Masterminds, but I’ll nevertheless discuss what’s going on in this movie-hack.
That Initialize phone route system command? That is really just the hacker/protaganist connecting to some sort of Proxy server. Certain proxy servers attempt to anonymize the user, which might be a good idea if you will be stealing proprietary software.
Initialize phone route system, though a very human-friendly command, probably won’t get you to far. Check the ssh man page to learn about connecting to a remote host.
It’s easy to set up a shell configuration file so that on startup or login, the computer echoes out “Fear is Our Business.”
I would suggest that knowing an intruder is in your system (through some sort of Intrusion detection system ) and still granting that Hacker access to the system through a game is an anti-pattern.
I also find it hard to believe that a gaming company would create, as it’s primary defense against attacks, a game. Computer game software is notoriously difficult to produce, and to find enough time to develop an entirely separate game to protect the main product, seems entirely out-of-scope. Who authorized this? They should be fired.
