Live Free Or Die Hard

Halivood did it again.

I was impressed with the evil speech derived from the conglomerated speeches of all their presidents. It takes effort to map out words from several speeches. Palakpakan.

The hackers here have the most understandable and user friendly interfaces. The thing is, hackers, most probably would not create intricate user interfaces that appeal to a wide audience. They use their programs for their own and are not selling them to anyone. But because it's Halivood, they have to have a nice perky interface so that the people who watch will, hopefully, understand whatever is happening.

Another thing worth noting is that hardware is not very easy to hi-jack. Although it is possible to just plug a consumer electronic gadget to a computer and take control of it, i.e. ssh from a phone. It's not possible to hack into a target within ten seconds.

They were mentioning mutating encryption algorithms. Interesting. It only goes to show that hackers should not be discarded. The things that they make can be very, very useful.

In the movie, when John McClane, the hero, was being held at gunpoint by Thomas Gabriel, the evil guy, the latter pushed his gun into the gunshot wound just at the right shoulder of the former. The hero then does the most noble thing by shooting the gun, piercing himself and knocking the evil guy off. So the question is: How in the hell can you get a guy thrown away from you by shooting yourself and making the bullet pierce your body and hit that guy by using a pistol? That's not all, you have to do it in such a way that that guy you shot at will hit and break a car wind shield about three feet away. The answer is Halivood, of course.

Interesting line from the movie:
"What do you get for being a hero? Nothing." .