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ack... Neo was a scriptkiddie? :-O

Nmap is used by pros too!

heheh... i know... just kidding in postscript ;-)

- the scene in the movie is set in the 90s. i presume that is why ipv4 is the norm.

this brings me to my next question. :)
- does that mean that hackers who lived in zion were far far superior to neo and trinity in technical knowledge? did neo spend most of his offline time getting up-to-date with the latest in computer technology there was? how come the english that the people in zion speak and the english neo speaks is the same, even though they are separated by a good 100 years in time?

verdict - reloaded may have shed the tokenism that made star wars and star trek look so pathetic, but they still seem to forward the tradition of the universal translator not only being able to translate speech on the fly, but also convey the meaning associated with idioms, phrases and slang.

but then, give them some credit, i shall, they 've given the philosophers a lot of fodder, bringing up questions are are brought up erstwhile only by advaita and zen. kudos.

check this out too

Star Wars pathetic? You are from the dark side?

> they haven't adopted IPV6 even after 5 generations of Zion

And even worse, SSH still has some buffer overflow!! Shucks!!

Another thing I dont understand. In the second image it says: Attempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32.

Now probably SSHNuke is some exploit which resets the root password. That makes me wonder, most such exploits just give you a rootshell. Why the fuck does this reset the damn root password? So that the whole world knows that this box has been compromised?

And SSHv1, CRC32 exploit isnt that outdated?? Bad admin!! Didnt apply the latest patches?? :))

But this is still better than the exploits/hacking shown in Swordfish. Anyone even remember the pathetic 3-D representation shown in Swordfish??

Cheers,
Dhar

Regarding Star Wars and Star Trek:

I have often wondered why these are considered such great movies. I often compare them with later movies and realize that they stand nowhere. (Michael, yes they are really not that great when you compare with current movies/serials).

But that is exactly the point. Imagine comparing The Matrix with movies some 20 years down the line. I am sure those movies will be better (technically at least) and people will then wonder what we saw in the Matrix.

It is probably that Star Wars/Star Trek for their time were light years ahead of competition. No movie/program of that time could claim to be so technically advanced as these two.

Lovely are the characters and brilliant is the cinematography. (And like Yoda I speak.) :))

Cheers,
Dhar

One more thing, Trinity ran Nmap on that host. Only one port was open. Nmap couldnt fingerprint the OS.

Yet Trinity ran the SSHNuke script without a hitch. Usually when you have a script which exploits a buffer overflow, you kinda need to know the OS. She has no idea whether the SSH service is running on a HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, BSD or godforbid a Windows box. Yet she confidentally exploits it with SSHNuke.

Wow!! I bow to thee Trinity! :)

Cheers,
Dhar

She has no idea whether the SSH service is running on a HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, BSD or godforbid a Windows box

Nice observation, Dhar! :)

Bad admin!! Didnt apply the latest patches?? :))

Ya, the agents have lots of other hi-tech things to do than the thankless job of updating patches ;-)

Onkar, Starwars was definitely years ahead when the movie was first made. The sequels are guilty of following the same tradition. They should have upgraded themselves.

Hey, whatever the technical stuff the movie is great and i/we should apreciate the same.

NILESH KURHADE
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Onkar, you are retarded!
even though zion is set roughly 100 years ahead i doubt society, culture and the general 'beau monde' have managed to become different in terms of linguistics. Basically they are not seperated by 100 years you fool, the people in the matrix are merely forced to live in a world were the date is remember to be 100 behind from the actual date, probably the machines did this to avoid the war represented in 'The Second Renaissance Parts 1+2' featurette of the animatrix.
Also, Star Wars is in no way guilty of putting a 'token-effort' into thier films as shown by overwelming fan support lucasarts recieves. I do however agree that the later star wars are critically designed for younger audiences which i believe to be a major mistake, possibly forced upon by fox? but despite this flaw, the older star wars - most notably episode VI, are masterpeices. not because of there amazing graphics for thier production time but because of the cinematography used, and the general tactile property of emotion which the Star Wars genre has inspired. lastly, and conclusively; star wars also uses many philosiphical and fundementally challenging ideas, as does (as you have pointed out) the matrix, which you have stupidly discredited in what i can only describe as an obnoxious attack.
~eeaye~

Onkar, you are retarded!
even though zion is set roughly 100 years ahead i doubt society, culture and the general 'beau monde' have managed to become different in terms of linguistics. Basically they are not seperated by 100 years you fool, the people in the matrix are merely forced to live in a world were the date is remember to be 100 behind from the actual date, probably the machines did this to avoid the war represented in 'The Second Renaissance Parts 1+2' featurette of the animatrix.
Also, Star Wars is in no way guilty of putting a 'token-effort' into thier films as shown by overwelming fan support lucasarts recieves. I do however agree that the later star wars are critically designed for younger audiences which i believe to be a major mistake, possibly forced upon by fox? but despite this flaw, the older star wars - most notably episode VI, are masterpeices. not because of there amazing graphics for thier production time but because of the cinematography used, and the general tactile property of emotion which the Star Wars genre has inspired. lastly, and conclusively; star wars also uses many philosiphical and fundementally challenging ideas, as does (as you have pointed out) the matrix, which you have stupidly discredited in what i can only describe as an obnoxious attack.
~eeaye~

hi nilesh. this isn't directly related 2 your weblog. but can you send me your email address. i need some info regarding nmap. hope 2 hear from you soon

Piyali, you will find more information about nmap here -

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

how come the english that the people in zion speak and the english neo speaks is the same, even though they are separated by a good 100 years in time?

Uh, duh, everyone in Zion is from the Matrix, save those who were born in Zion. They speak the language they know.

I think u here are all full of shit..
U dont get the point that this was something that came up in this movie like for not even 2 seconds...

And disabling nodes 21-48 means 28 nodes not 27. Their computer are not even computing correctly :-)

hmmm they just want to make sure that they get them all, c'mon if you could disable a power gird wouldn't you?

Ah, But is 28 inclusive of Both ends?