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Didn’t swordfish have some manually “hack” 128bit encryption in 2 minutes or something stupid?

Swordfish seemed like the most out of touch of any hackers movie I’ve seen.



Swordfish is right at the bottom of my realistic-hacker-movies list.


Here's a page listing "Movies Featuring the Nmap Security Scanner": https://nmap.org/movies/


Well, add the nmap web site to the list of sites I can only see through a VPN while on Tesco Mobile.


I see no one thinks IPv6 will catch on.




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