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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. Re:Nice Password by cubedbee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's Zion0101, i.e Zion5. This is the fifth incarnation of the city, after all. But nobody is supposed to know that...

  2. Re:Uhm... by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Insightful
    check the IP number (10.x.x.x, private IANA), it was not on the public internet...

  3. Re:Screen Shots ?! by Istealmymusic · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Is there anything morally wrong with downloading an esoteric release of Reloaded online? I went to the movies, paid my money, contributing to the $44 billion or so profit of Warner Brothers. I don't feel guilty downloading a crappy quality VCD to notice all the details and things I missed. (But I did notice the terminal with ssh and nmap on it).

    Nothing wrong at all.

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  4. So you're the bastard... by HardCase · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...who's always talking during the movie. Hey, do you have a cell phone too? And a beeper? Maybe a crying child or two?


    All of this managed to make my Matrix experience just that much harder to enjoy.


    -h-

  5. Re:Uhm... by edunbar93 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    check the IP number (10.x.x.x, private IANA), it was not on the public internet...

    Heh. So?

    So that means that the guys who were doing the hacking previous to Trinity's arrival broke into the public network (or, perhaps they don't have one, but instead the building they were in was appropriately inside their private network) and she was working from a unix box inside the private network that the power station was on. It's like how a lot of crackers these days say that networks tend to be like porcupines: hard and secure on the outside, but nice and soft underneath. They probably never bothered to secure their old SSH1 daemons because they were secure in the belief that noone would get far enough to exploit it. :)

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  6. Re:Nice Password by soundofthemoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Zion0101 is the 6th Zion.

    It's zero-based, duh.

  7. Merovingians and the Matrix by reverseengineer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The Merovingians weren't terribly interesting in a historical sense- they set up shop in the power vacuum left by the Romans, and ruled over the Franks for a few hundred years (5th to 8th century CE). Their rules regarding inheritance were not terribly well thought out (kingdoms were split among surviving sons), and so the kingdom slowly fragmented. Also, Ummayad Muslims were starting to make incursions over the Pyrennes. With the fragmentation of central royal authority, real power was held by palace mayors. One of these, Charles "The Hammer" Martel turned back the Arabs at Tours, which was a turning point not only against the Arabs, but for the balance of power in the kingdom. Charles Martel's son, Pepin the Short, became king of the Franks. His son, Charles, would go on to found the Carolingian dynasty and become the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800 CE; he is better known as Charles the Great, or Charlemagne.

    So, the actual history of the Merovingians, not so exciting. The mythology is better though, and far more relevant to "The Matrix." The founder of the Merovingians, Merovec, is considered to be somewhat mythical. The first Merovingian for which there is good historical evidence for is Merovec's supposed grandson, Clovis. As the above poster notes, one story has Merovec as half beast. Other accounts (with connections to Gnostic Christianity, a subject that has been much discussed in relation to "The Matrix") claim that Merovec was the descendant of Jesus (and Mary Magdelene). Yeah, I know, but just bear with me. Now, after the Carolingians took over, supposedly a secret society was formed to reinstall the Merovingians to the throne (after all, who could have more authority than someone with the bloodline of David and Jesus?). This society is named the Prieure de Sion, or the Priory of Zion. (ominous music plays for effect)

    This secret society, as all secret societies eventually must (seems to be a rule of conspiracy theory), has been linked to the Knights Templar (which were quite real, actually (formed during the Crusades, became quite wealthy through guarding banking transactions, like a medieval Brinks, were annihilated by Philip the Fair in 1307), though the mythology that has sprung up regarding them is vast) and through them to every secret society you've ever heard of- the Freemasons, the Illuminati, etc.... In other words, the character "the Merovingian" is connected in name to bunch of real world secret conspiracy plots, just the sort of thing you'd like for a fictional character connected in deep with secret conspiracy plots. I must admit it's nice to see that the brothers Wachowski have really done their homework.

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