Pro Linux hacking
from xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 09 Dec 21:23
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/26510453

Found some very special “make it look hacky” bash in criminal minds.

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krolden@lemmy.ml on 09 Dec 21:27 next collapse

lmao

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 09 Dec 21:33 next collapse

Bones shows an “Amiga”, that looks suspiciously like an IBM PC-AT complete with 5.25” floppy playing Doom.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 09 Dec 22:12 collapse

It’s not an Amiga, looks more like an old grubby fvwm or dec osf1 with uuhhh what was that window manager again?

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 09 Dec 22:34 collapse

The OP screenshot is from the TV series “Criminal Minds”. My comment is about a TV series “Bones”.

The UI in the OP screenshot looks like an X11 window manager from the mid to late 1990’s.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl on 10 Dec 04:08 collapse

Ah indeed, I was talking about the screenshot. Sorry about the confusion.

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 09 Dec 21:39 next collapse

/root
root

~/…/root

root/

ls /root/

I’m in!

SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee on 09 Dec 22:59 next collapse

This guy didn’t LS or LL lol just changed directories 4 times and then…?

Classy@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 02:44 collapse

Coulda thrown a couple ls -las around and he woulda been golden

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 03:27 collapse

I have bash_alias open in another window so you can see:

ls=‘ls -alph --group-directories-first --color=always’

root=‘sudo rm -f / \ hunter2’

EonNShadow@pawb.social on 09 Dec 21:48 next collapse

I’ve told the wife I can’t watch these shows because of how bad the tech always is, and I can’t stop myself from losing suspension of disbelief when something like this happens

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 09 Dec 21:57 next collapse

Same issue here.. Now with the TV serie called "The Equalizer" (2021-*).

z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml on 09 Dec 23:14 next collapse

The only exception is Mr. Robot. Check this command the main character runs as root:

shred -uz /*

Only show I’ve seen where they show real commands with really damaging effects.

laurelraven@lemmy.zip on 10 Dec 06:32 next collapse

I remember watching the first episode and he brought up a terminal and thinking “here we go” then…“holy shit… Those are real commands”

That and the explanations I was ready to laugh at for being terrible, then… Wait, no, those actually make sense

menemen@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 08:54 collapse

And it is also great television. For me personally, the best I’ve ever seen. Whoever reads this and hasn’t seen it already: Do it! And watch it all! Some might think season 2 is a little slow (I still liked it), but season 3 is just incredible.

laurelraven@lemmy.zip on 11 Dec 02:59 collapse

Yeah, I’ll admit I kind of stalled out in season 2 but I’ve meant to go back and finish… It would be easier if my wife liked that sort of TV 😅 I’ll just have to watch it alone 😭

Cyber@feddit.uk on 11 Dec 07:21 collapse

This still makes me laugh:

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/6c4315ca-3031-47f2-9954-f29f58761bd5.webp">

Agent641@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 09:38 next collapse

I’m curious what this does, I’ll run it when I get home.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 21:34 collapse

That should only shred the top level files in the root directory though. Since shred doesn’t do it recursively and doesn’t know what to do with subdirectories.

Do any distros store system critical files at the root directory? It’s all subdirectories on mine. I guess if you were storing important data files in the root directory they would get shredded but that’s really bad practice anyway and I doubt it’s super common.

Malfeasant@lemm.ee on 11 Dec 01:20 next collapse

I have this vague memory of one of the CSIs showing a list of IP addresses with 4-digit octets… I get not wanting to risk using real IP addresses, but at least use 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x x

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Dec 22:03 collapse

Brooklyn Nine-Nine did an entire episode lampshading this whole thing. (S06E14 for the curious)

MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml on 09 Dec 21:54 next collapse

m.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ&pp=ygUXdHdvIGlk…

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org on 09 Dec 22:00 next collapse

Heresy indeed. The Codex does not support this shell.

i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk on 09 Dec 22:05 next collapse

I’m sure there’s a community for nonsense TV/film hacking/Linux screens. I can’t remember what it’s called.

IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz on 09 Dec 22:28 collapse

I don’t know if equivalent exists on fediverse, but r/itsaunixsystem is available on $that_other_platform.

i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk on 09 Dec 22:33 collapse

Ah, that’s the clue I needed.

!itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club

Think that instance is dead though.

smeg@feddit.uk on 11 Dec 08:59 collapse

We do have !veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world but it’s not exactly the same thing

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 22:07 next collapse

It makes me happy that I actually understand this stuff now lol

hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Dec 22:57 next collapse

I‘m in.

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 10 Dec 02:29 collapse

We’re home

[deleted] on 10 Dec 03:25 collapse

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 09 Dec 23:13 next collapse

Just wait until they discover rm, mv, and mkdir!

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 10 Dec 05:30 collapse 

mkdir /dir
cd /dir
cd /dir
mkdir 2
cd /dir
cd /dir/2
cd /dir
mv 2 /2
cd /2
mkdir /dir/3
rm -f 3
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 00:52 next collapse

Me when I forget why I’m in a directory, then remember, but forget again

BCsven@lemmy.ca on 10 Dec 02:46 next collapse

pwd even when the bash prompt tells me where I am

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 04:07 collapse

I forget pwd

ComradeMiao@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 05:44 collapse

Thanks for the laugh

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 01:17 next collapse

at least output dmesg or get htop on the screen or something. you could find it on the internet if you look up commands to look like a hacker and thats not even 30 seconds of effort. i wonder how many other professions cringe at the shitty tv shows about their craft.

Telodzrum@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 04:08 next collapse
Nemoder@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 04:19 next collapse

We even have an app for it now: apt install hollywood

[deleted] on 10 Dec 12:35 collapse

.

Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works on 10 Dec 04:22 next collapse

NO MR HACKER PLEASE. NOT MY KDE DOTFILE!!!

SOMBODY HELP, HE IS RICING MY DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT!!!

HES POSTING IT ON UNIXPORN THAT SICK FUCK

fool@programming.dev on 10 Dec 20:09 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/027/270/sneaky.jpg">

Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de on 11 Dec 17:44 collapse

I upvoted, but the im*ge didn’t load, so I hope that it’s something funny or relevant

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 05:46 next collapse

Viewsonic monitor tho. Nostalgic AF

laurelraven@lemmy.zip on 10 Dec 06:29 next collapse

OMG, they just got root access!!!

Subverb@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 08:14 next collapse

“I’m in.”

Agent641@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 09:37 collapse

Heresy? In my Linux command line? It’s more likely than you think

dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 07:39 next collapse

just tried to re-watch “the girl in the spider’s web”, the not-sequel to fincher’s masterpiece that’s “the girl with the dragon tattoo”. I remember hating it way back when and went in with a “how bad can it be” attitude… dios mio, what a colossal mountain of shit. the “hacking” in OP is hard sci-fi compared to this turdistan, and that’s the least of its problems.

someone posted already the gell-mann amnesia effect and this applies to everything. how guns are portrayed in movies as magical. cars and how they’re driven. the laughable naive cop shows. medical procedures. legal proceedings. journalists and their MO.

you hafta run your brain at 110% at all times to be able to somewhat disregard the learned idiocy that was programmed into you from an early age. here’s hoping we have the infrastructure in place so generations that are coming can avoid becoming similarly handicapped.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 11 Dec 10:18 collapse

Thank God actual cops haven’t watched those TV shows and movies.

Routhinator@startrek.website on 10 Dec 10:20 next collapse

That’s some shitty ‘hacking’…

But what makes these shell commands ‘bash’ exactly? Seems like this could be a half-dozen shells.

Also… why are ‘hackers’ always using a shell in some gui program?

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Dec 10:55 next collapse

I guess I just used bash as deonym for shell. Sry. It was late and I was tired.

Routhinator@startrek.website on 10 Dec 11:21 collapse

Hey no worries, I dunno why I even called that out. Lack of sleep due to back pain and responding to posts at 2am I guess

octopus_ink@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 11:32 next collapse

Also… why are ‘hackers’ always using a shell in some gui program?

An actual CLI would frighten the windows users watching the show.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 11 Dec 06:55 collapse

“Scary how hackers are always using DOS prompts isn’t it?”

–Confused Windows Viewers

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 10 Dec 21:25 collapse

Yeah everyone knows the real way to hack Linux is to do tree /

Lots of weird looking text output means lots of hacking

xorollo@leminal.space on 10 Dec 22:58 collapse

Making a new python environment

Dkarma@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 02:11 collapse

This guy pythons

Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Dec 11:20 next collapse

I was playing DMC: Devil May Cry (the prequel one) and they used a bunch of mount commands on a screen to show Virgil hacking the network

ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 02:09 collapse

TBH, on ancient insecure systems that might work.

Not very exciting though

b34n5@hexbear.net on 10 Dec 13:47 next collapse

Congratulations! I see you know how to change directories. That’s quite a breakthrough.

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 04:04 next collapse

How is changing directories “hacking”???

rmz504@lemm.ee on 11 Dec 16:05 next collapse

Just keep changing directories and the mainframe will be confused and overwhelmed and tHeN ThE SyStEm cOlLaPsEs, MaN!!!

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Dec 19:10 collapse

Who said it was?

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 23:25 collapse

You did

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Dec 07:08 collapse

Where?

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 07:19 collapse

Where the fuck do you think?

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Dec 07:57 collapse

I don’t know. Tell me.

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 17:11 collapse

Well according to you changing directories is “pro Linux hacking”.

But yes let’s keep pretending it’s a big mystery.

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Dec 18:09 collapse

Well, since obviously no one ever has, let me introduce you to the concept of “sarcasm”, which everyone else here understood. Just keep getting angry for no reason.

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 18:18 collapse

So angry grrrr. Good luck with your hacking

xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Dec 18:29 collapse

If you ever need help with language concepts, just ask ChatGPT. It has some good definitions and examples for you. This will help you in a language based environment like Lemmy. 👍

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 11 Dec 06:57 next collapse

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml on 11 Dec 10:31 next collapse

Shoutout whatever the fuck this de is, is it lxqt?

HexesofVexes@lemmy.world on 11 Dec 10:46 collapse

And here we see an expert hacker at work, with just a few commands as a root user, they managed to gain root access.