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How can a signal hack a network?

 
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If you remember Transformers, there was this dialog there:

That's the signal that hacked our network. NASA's working around the clock to break it but we need YOUR help in deciphering this signal. You've all shown technical skill in the field of signal analysis. We're on a hair trigger, people, the United States has dispatched an armed force to its full capacity. This is as real as it's going to get. I'm going to leave you to the officer to sort you all into groups. Good luck to us all.

What does it mean "a signal hacked our network"? How can a "signal" hack any network?

 
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You're really concerned about the wording about computers in the fictional world? Why? Because it may or may not be correct?

In a movie, where you see a cell phone turned into a robot that has machine guns, I think it may be a good idea to turn off logic...

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Henry Wong wrote:In a movie, where you see a cell phone turned into a robot that has machine guns, I think it may be a good idea to turn off logic...


Yours doesn't do that? Man, you must have one of those really old cell phones.


(Scary think is - I remember lugging one of those around many years ago)
 
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I'm more worried about my iPod achieving sentience and launching ICBM's to eradicate mankind.
 
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Bear Bibeault wrote:I'm more worried about my iPod achieving sentience and launching ICBM's to eradicate mankind.


Just have it play Tic-Tac-Toe while it's calculating trajectories, and the world should be fine.
 
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:

Bear Bibeault wrote:I'm more worried about my iPod achieving sentience and launching ICBM's to eradicate mankind.


Just have it play Tic-Tac-Toe while it's calculating trajectories, and the world should be fine.



You need to set the number of players to 0, though.
 
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Aakash Goel wrote:
What does it mean "a signal hacked our network"? How can a "signal" hack any network?



You are giving way too much credit to Hollywood in thinking that technical terms in movies mean something. They're just technobabble.
 
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My wife and and I have a common response when one of us asks "Why does X happen in this movie?"

the other always says "THAT'S your problem with this movie? Of ALL the crazy, strange and dumb things we've seen so far, THAT is the one you're going to focus on?"
 
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Usually when you want to generate a signal that can hack a network, first you invert the warp matrix, then you reverse the polarity of the tachyon beam.
 
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I thought it was the positronic relay that needed a phase shift inversion to release multi-phasic anti-matter streams?
 
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Bear Bibeault wrote:I thought it was the positronic relay that needed a phase shift inversion to release multi-phasic anti-matter streams?



Please, you should know that no one uses multi-phasic anti-matter streams since the invention of the transwarp conduits. And with slip-stream on the horizon, we are going to need to modify the deflector to withstand the temporal flux.
 
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Also, almost all multi-phasic anti-matter streams are EBCDIC, so there's that whole issue to contend with.
 
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But when it comes down to it, it is all about the anti-protons, isn't it? If so, the encoding becomes paramount.
 
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Most definately. If the encoding isn't proper, the anti-protons could be mistaken for midichlorians and that would certainly cause a kerfuffle.
 
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I know this has been discussed to death, but remember the movie "Independence Day?" I absolutely loved how Jeff Goldblum was able to access the spaceship's anonymous FTP server and upload a virus with about three minutes of work. He didn't reverse-engineer anything, he didn't compile anything, he didn't have any kind of radio sniffer, any kind of special antenna -- he just connected via wifi, apparently, uploaded some Applescript, and it ran the first time.

Meanwhile, in the real world it can take all day to get Samba working on a Windows LAN.
 
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Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:I know this has been discussed to death, but remember the movie "Independence Day?" I absolutely loved how Jeff Goldblum was able to access the spaceship's anonymous FTP server and upload a virus with about three minutes of work. He didn't reverse-engineer anything, he didn't compile anything, he didn't have any kind of radio sniffer, any kind of special antenna -- he just connected via wifi, apparently, uploaded some Applescript, and it ran the first time.

Meanwhile, in the real world it can take all day to get Samba working on a Windows LAN.



I was waiting for you to bring that up ;)

If the encoding isn't proper, the anti-protons could be mistaken for midichlorians and that would certainly cause a kerfuffle.



You might also want to mark the signal strictfp. The embedded mitochondrial nano bots are known to overload with heat if this is not done properly. This is documented under chapter 5 of the book 'How to make a signal that hacks networks for dummies.'
 
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