Plot armor applies to anything and everything that must be protected for the plot to move forward. The systems of the protagonist are untouchable while the systems of the villain can be hacked in a few minutes.
What’s the opposite of armor though? Some sort of weakness maybe? Why does the villain live in an underground bunker that is made out of dynamite or something extremely flammable? The protagonist never has comical weaknesses like that, while the villain has several.
Passwords in movies NEVER adhere to best practices. They’re virtually always a word or phrase that’s all lowercase, has no numbers, no punctuation, etc.
Just for once, I’d like to see Gibbs ask how soon to decrypt the laptop, and Abby tell him, “Literally about 3 million years”.
3 million? What a weak encryption scheme, proper encryption should take 10^20 years at a minimum.
I learned this week that Microsoft keeps a copy of your keys when you encrypt your hdd with their software. So you don’t need a black hat, all you need is a subpoena.
To be fair, if microsoft didnt automatically backup the keys, a simple BIOS/UEFI setting change, or windows update could trip the Secure Boot settings, which would clear all the TPM keys from the system, which means the sysyem would prompt you for the recovery key. I think people value being able retain access to their data over encryption. And to Microsoft’s credit, its not exactly a secret, they literally tell you that the key will be uploaded.
a simple BIOS/UEFI setting change, or windows update could trip the Secure Boot settings they could work around that though, but I still agree that backing up the passphrase to an arguably safe online system is good
Only a stupid cybercriminal would use Windows
Or a smart one knowing exactly what they can and can’t do touching Windows.
Cryptography in movies is more akin to magic than to actual cryptography.
Whoever mashes the keyboard best.
While speaking the proper expositional incantations.
& computers generally O.O’
Aren’t most things if you know more in those fields than the average joe?
Star Wars EU was nice, some kind of a universe where asymmetric encryption is much less certain than IRL, but at the same time if something is encrypted and you don’t have a key or a lot of power, having a “hacker” (a “slicer”, an “icebreaker”, whatever) won’t help.
That wasn’t intentional probably, just necessary for good writing. Writer’s skill and intelligence usually affect their understanding of computers, if they are writing science fiction.
Except, of course, for a few stupider than most places. “Wraith Squadron”'s bothan hacker being the worst.
