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- From: lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield)
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Date: 16 Sep 92 00:30:41 GMT
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- References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk> <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Sep4.205842.12303@qualcomm.com> <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Sep14.150328.11198@b11.b11.ingr.com> <1992Sep15.095017.27880@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <KRAZYKID.92Sep15081612@csa.bu.edu>
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- In <KRAZYKID.92Sep15081612@csa.bu.edu> krazykid@csa.bu.edu (Ernest Kim) writes:
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- >In a more realistic movie, they wouldn't be using modems where you put
- >the telephone mouth piece on a suction cup to make a connection with a
- >computer. How about using a logic probe to connect the black box to
- >the computer?? These aren't meant to be flames, just realism
- >comments. I really liked the movie because it was funny and kept me
- >entertained, not for it's representation of technology.
-
- Well, now wait a minute. Let us turn on our "willing suspension of
- disbelief"-icators and review these scenes. 1) It was certainly my
- impression that the acoustic coupler was being used for the voice-
- stress analyzer hookup, a reasonable hack. 2) Who says that was
- a logic probe? It looked more like a scope probe, or possibly a
- *signal injector* probe. Again, not *entirely* unreasonable. It's
- not like they named the computer WOPR again.
-
- (Yes, admittedly, there were some pretty obvious foulups, particularly
- in proceedure, but none of them were movie-busters, and the above two
- were far from heinous.)
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