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chronovore) wrote2007-08-29 10:59 am
chronovore) wrote2007-08-29 10:59 am
no, really, i used to like this show a lot
I used to enjoy Chris Carter's Millennium quite a bit. I was a Lance Henriksen fan before he became "Frank Black" on the series, and am still a fan no matter how many cheesy movies he appears in.
There was one episode where Frank and his Millenium Group handler needed to get at some sensitive information on a mainframe, and the 1337 h4xx0r kid they enlist to get them past the mainframe's security says, "Oh, we're going to need some serious computing power to blow past their defenses." So Frank and Millennium Group handler guy bring hacker-kid to the Millennium Group's ultra secret, super powerful IT installation, and the hacker proceeds to randomly attempt a selection of passwords, and he nails it with an easily guessed password on like his 3rd or 4th guess attempt.
It probably wasn't meant to be funny, but it cracked me up. I'm pretty sure that it was just bad writing -- because guessing passwords doesn't require sick hardware -- but in the metafiction my brain constructed, the kid had only wanted to see what kind of hardware the Millennium Group was packing, so he totally scammed them into revealing their setup. Or maybe Chris Carter / Morgan & Wong are Just That Smart. 'Cos it was funny.
There was one episode where Frank and his Millenium Group handler needed to get at some sensitive information on a mainframe, and the 1337 h4xx0r kid they enlist to get them past the mainframe's security says, "Oh, we're going to need some serious computing power to blow past their defenses." So Frank and Millennium Group handler guy bring hacker-kid to the Millennium Group's ultra secret, super powerful IT installation, and the hacker proceeds to randomly attempt a selection of passwords, and he nails it with an easily guessed password on like his 3rd or 4th guess attempt.
It probably wasn't meant to be funny, but it cracked me up. I'm pretty sure that it was just bad writing -- because guessing passwords doesn't require sick hardware -- but in the metafiction my brain constructed, the kid had only wanted to see what kind of hardware the Millennium Group was packing, so he totally scammed them into revealing their setup. Or maybe Chris Carter / Morgan & Wong are Just That Smart. 'Cos it was funny.