Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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When I watched this it ruined an otherwise pretty good movie. In The Recruit there is a virus that spreads through regular power lines. How is this possible? The power supply is somehow decoding variations in the voltage and sending it to the CPU?? And then the lead character (who is supposed to be a computer genius, remember) says something like "No firewalls to get through." In this awed kind of "it must be genius" voice. What about a UPS? Wouldn't that flatten out any variations, or even a simple surge supressor. It bothers me that they couldn't think of anything better. I guess they wanted it to sound exotic and dangerous, but, come on!