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How long before we see this website as the source for some "hacker sequence" in a movie where a person wearing a black hoodie states they are "... working on cracking their SHA-256 encryption, should only take a sec."


If such a movie even mentions SHA-256 I think that's above average on its own.


That depends..

"Just a second, I need to backdoor the SHA256 rootkit to penetrate the directory. Shit, they have an X62 firewall. Luckily I brought my pentester."


"These packets are not going to sniff themselves."


You're right. Still, mentioning SHA-256 brings better possibility of "someone knowing something", compared to, say, GUI, Visual Basic, and tracing IP addresses.


Syntax-highlighted ALGOL-y code blocks seem to be back in style if they're not going with the constant "toss that screen up to a hologram" bit.

Sometime there will be a nice interview of such on the design that goes into that, not necessarily for "hacker sequences" but general imaginary computer interfaces like https://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2021/theexpanse .




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