Oddly enough, the recently-canceled Fox show, "Drive" /did/ have something along those lines. The characters are railroaded into pulling a bank job. One of the characters points out that if the safe has a 6 digit passcode, and it changes weekly, the bank manager probably has it stored on his computer, so all they need to do is run an audit search on his computer for a 6 digit variable.
It was marginally more clever than "it's taped under his desk drawer."
I'd like to see the "social hacking" thing happen, as I think it's going to be the next big thing in bank fraud and identity theft. There was an incident recently where people lost their Xbox Live accounts to thieves who convinced MS support staff that they were the legitimate owners who had simply "lost their password"...
Agreed, btw, that "Sneakers" is a good movie. I'd like to catch that one again, and then send it a chaser of several beers and then "Hackers" which I've never seen.
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Date: 2007-08-29 02:52 am (UTC)It was marginally more clever than "it's taped under his desk drawer."
I'd like to see the "social hacking" thing happen, as I think it's going to be the next big thing in bank fraud and identity theft. There was an incident recently where people lost their Xbox Live accounts to thieves who convinced MS support staff that they were the legitimate owners who had simply "lost their password"...
Agreed, btw, that "Sneakers" is a good movie. I'd like to catch that one again, and then send it a chaser of several beers and then "Hackers" which I've never seen.