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->''"Augh! The virus! It's fighting back! It's digital chaos out there! All I'll need is a modem, a computer screen, and a bag of Doritos. Make sure it's Cool Ranch. Heard you were lookin' for a digital whiz-kid. I'm your man. There's a malfunction in the mainframe! I can't seem to crack it! With the power of the net, there ain't nothin' I can't handle. You remember the dot-com crash? Yeah, that was me. I got malware that'll make the [=Y2K=] bug look like a friendly caterpillar. You're askin' me to take a digital E code, encrypt it, turn it back, flip it and then reactivate the computer system? It's crazy. But I'm the man for the job."''
-->-- [[https://youtube.com/shorts/THm50jw3ACc?feature=shared "Hackers in the Early 2000's"]] by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@kylegordonisgreat8611 Kyle Gordon]]'''
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->'''BSOD:''' An error has occurred. Somehow the stupid monkey humans have hacked our OS despite it being literally alien to them.\\
One would think the technological gulf in computing power would make this impossible, but Hollywood doesn't know the first thing about real hacking despite them employing hack writers.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Alien Invasion"
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-->-- '''Kirito''', ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''

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-->-- '''Kirito''', '''Kirito as he "[[PapaWolf Saves]]" his Daughter''', ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
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->In ''Watch_Dogs'', you can [[HackTheTrafficLights hack traffic lights]] and barriers to discourage pursuers, but how that applies is that a quick-time event flashes up as you drive along the road, you press it, and [[PressXToNotDie hey, presto]]! Pursuer fucks off. Thank goodness, I was coming dangerously close to waking up.
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''

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->Hollywood still does a horrific job of portraying anyone who uses a computer or cell phone for anything. They may as well just [[TwoDecadesBehind set every movie before 1998]] so that they can avoid the cinematic poison of shooting an actor looking at a fucking screen. But in an effort to stay HIP and KEWL, the people behind the new ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2015}}'' reboot (yes, it's already being rebooted) have decided to change Victor Von Doom from being a small-country dictator into an "anti-social programmer," which means Hollywood is trying to [[WereStillRelevantDammit edgify him by 10 percent]]. He was already a crazed homicidal maniac. You don't have to mess with that formula. That's an evergreen.
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/11/stop-black-friday.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''

->''"The only person who could erase Chloe is Chloe."''\\\
Yes, because no one on Earth is better with computers than a girl who grew up with sub standard equipment in a Kansas farm town. Sigh.
-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep02 Julian Finn]]''' on ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Shield"

->'''Matt''': He’s told he’s no longer eligible for unemployment insurance after some verbal sparring, and then he finds an ad [[GoingByTheMatchbook on the back of a matchbook]] to become a computer programmer, which got a big laugh out of me.\\
'''David''': This movie is so unapologetic about not giving a f*** about how computers actually work that I can’t really hold anything against it.
-->--Chris Sims and Matt Wilson [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-superman-iii-1983-part-one/ on]] Gus Gorman, ''Film/SupermanIII''

->Oh, and they also decide to hire a stereotypical hacker kid (DJ Qualls) to hang out at MissionControl, ostensibly as some kind of backup plan, but mainly to annoy the more technologically savvy viewers.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/TheCore''

->Let's imagine that you're on a ship and you want to take over the computers. How would you do it? Would you:\\\
A: Sneak into the Captain's office late at night and crack his password\\
B: Pretend to be a crew member and sit at a crew terminal\\
C: Pretend to be a drunk, wander into the captain's deck and slap a remote control under the wooden desk that the computer sits on\\\
Well of course the answer is C because we all know you only need to be near a computer and you can change the entire nation's satellite system. And [[ItsASmallNetAfterAll download it onto a floppy disk.]]
-->--'''Chris Parry''' on ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl''

->She appears to have that quaint [[TheNineties '90s]] internet power that lets her be in any computer anywhere at any time for any reason, whether or not the damn thing is even connected to a phone line, and her tentacles help her do this because of mumble mumble internet.
-->--'''''Blog/ToplessRobot''''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/11/the_13_dumbest_spiderman_storiesjust_from_the_clon.php "The 13 Dumbest Spider-Man Stories...]] Just From ComicBook/TheCloneSaga"



->"Control-Alt-Death"? Geez, this is gonna be one of'' those ''movies, isn't it? Where people stare really intently at these monitors that have these scrolling lines of code that don't mean anything, and talk about computers and networks using a lot of techno-jargon they don't know what it means, like 'They're attacking our sub-net!' 'Quick, install more firewalls!' 'Close all our sockets before they upload a Trojan virus!'
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on the cover of ''Film/GameOverControlAltDeath''
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--> '''Tom's narration''', ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings''

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->'''''PREPARE TO FEEL THE WRATH OF A PISSED-OFF NERD WITH ADMIN PRIVILEGES!!'''''
-->-- '''Kirito''', ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
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In that case it’s definitely a standoff at high noon with lightning-fast fingers in place of guns.

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In that ''that'' case it’s definitely ''definitely'' a standoff at high noon with lightning-fast fingers in place of guns.
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-> Movies will tell you that hacking is all about facing off against another living soul in real-time, or some shit. Spitting out code like spells in a wizard’s duel, that kind of thing. Of course, real hacking is usually way more subdued and involves a lot less furious typing and a lot more fishing through trash cans for shredded account information… unless, of course, you’re on a Yeerk Pool Ship, and every Visser has their own factions with their own security codes and command prompts.\\
In that case it’s definitely a standoff at high noon with lightning-fast fingers in place of guns.
--> '''Tom's narration''', ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings''

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