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Trinity used an actual exploit (ssh IIRC). This sets it apart some movies like Jurassic Park with the girl looking at some UI made of 3D shapes and says "unix, I know it).

Or NCIS - of which I copied for an awareness training the part where the two geeks "go though the firewall" both on the same keyboard.




Didn't know this but yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U - scene from The Matrix Reloaded where Trinity uses nmap and sshnuke. Looks like there's a re-creation of the on-screen display here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J2IdllfHh8 but the typing is faster than in the movie.

Also, the Jurassic Park scene to which you're referring was a real picture of SGI IRIX's 3D file manager. It was visual fluff, but functional visual fluff.


Jurassic Park: That was the Button Fly Demo UI from SGI IRIX. So at least it wasn't a complete mockup. (But nor is it the same as "knowing unix". If she knew unix, she would've been complaining more.)




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