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Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ain't-that-special dept.

rajiv was among dozens to report that unlike most "Hacks" in film, The Matrix reloaded actually has an ounce of reality where other films would rely on fancy 3D graphics. You can see more at Insecure.org where they have screenshots. It's only on screen for a split second, but Tritnity uses Nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then exploits it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001.

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  1. Uhm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In response to :-

    > The Matrix reloaded actually has an ounce of
    > reality where other films would rely on fancy
    > 3D graphics.

    So in several hundred years time people STILL won't have patched their bloody SSH holes?

    Yah actually I guess that is reality ;o)

    AL

  2. No IPv6 huh? by hillct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Severla hundred years in the future and still, IPv6 hasn't been adopted. Personally, I'm not suprised. It'll take an act of god to get it deployed.

    --CTH

    --

    --Got Lists? | Top 95 Star Wars Line
    1. Re:No IPv6 huh? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even if everyone on Earth were ready to migrate to IPv6, it still wouldn't happen. As we found out in Independence Day, IPv4 is an entrenched *intergalactic* standard. There are just too many star systems involved to be able to roll out this upgrade in the forseeable future.

    2. Re:No IPv6 huh? by markov_chain · · Score: 5, Funny

      Recall the first Matrix, where Agent Smith rants about the humans' deficiencies, and mentions the failure of an early beta version of the Matrix. It failed because they made the simulation too good, and people were missing all the pain and suffering.

      So they put IPv4 back in.

      --
      Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
  3. Re:nmap is easily fooled by antsquish · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and after all that work making it appear as a FreeBSD box, you go and confess to all of slashdot that it's really a Win2k box...... I guess that saves everyone a bit of work? :-)

  4. Re:Pix by kampit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yeah, and if you look at the pictures closer, you notice

    (The 1539 ports scanned but not shown below are in the state: closed)
    /t State Service
    /tcp open ssh


    So she does know there's an sshd running on the system, then she throws the 'spoit and it works.. maybe you'd prefer it if there had been a 3 hour sequence where she coded up her own exploit, DDoS'd the whole matrix and pranced around in the nude saying 'marvelous!', but sometimes you just have to make sacrifices to please the general audience :)
  5. Re:Private Network! by feldy · · Score: 5, Funny

    After assing the movie

    The sad thing is, I have no idea what verb you were actually trying to use.