Possible Hacking Screenplay/Novel
i am an amateur playwrite and have had one produced play so far (which is just about to go to casting) and i am working on an idea atm. The idea is as follows:
a hacker is taking down a racist site and decides to check into the background of the members.. and discovers one of the members to be the president of the USA. unfortunately for him he gets caught and the SS afraid that he might go to the press come after him in hollywood stlye… and he has to use his hacking and street hacking knowledge to save himslef etc. not very original but hey.
what i made the thread for is that i dont have nearly enough hacking knowledge to know how to lay out the scene/chapter where he hacks the site.. and i want to make it realistic so anyone who knows anythying about computers will be able to read without wincing. (one way would be fine as he only hacks it once and once its believable i dont need it to the the best hack ever.)
also i would lke someone to tell me possible street hacking techniques that could help him at some point.. so if you would pm me, reply or add me on msn (shabouwcaw@hotmail.com) to tell me those two things it would be much appreciated.. thnx in advance.
Blumoose, saying that with your scrolling green binary down a black terminal :P It sounds cool, and I myself am a writter. Yes seeing and hearing clicking at a computer is boring/annoying, but it needs action. There actually was a street hacking movie- I saw it a long time ago- and I cant remember if it was realistic or not. I doubt it. I will post if I remember. Make it exciting- make him steal wireless network systems, add in some HOPE camios, make him a lik hero, or just go all out and base it on the life of a hacker….. I really don't know too many famous ones myself. Most known two are the hacker and…… :). Mr_Cheese.
perhaps not the president but perhaps a high up gouvernment officals.
i've found this to be the case in the UK :| .. well only 2 members, and werent very very high up… but still, was surprising to see.
and heres a idea for street hacking.
perhaps when in the police station, he can get access to a computer.. get admin rights, then use the networks RAT and operate a computer at someone else's terminal…. from there we could change his release date or something.
thats actually a true story kinda. person in the UK jailed for hacking, the prison guards thought it be good if he taught a ICT class to inmates. 3 weeks after his first ICT class the guys release date came up! … sadly he was re-arrested a month after he walked out. shame :(
but anyways back on topic… hacking a comp to get access to a RAT on the network might be cool. coz then atleast its visual so people wont be bored watching him use command prompt for 15mins. and its actually very realistic on most large networks.
BluMoose wrote: Lol theres a reason nobody ever really hacks in movies, it looks plain boring xD Its not all fancy green code in black terminals with binary runnin down the sides n shit…
erhm, take one look at your sig, please ;) ///
about the movie stuff. How about a terro kidnapping this child from this hacker, and the terro forces him to hack stuff.
In the end of the movie you see this "terro" was actually a corrupted ss-agent who was pissed off because he got fired for taking down a website and sue's this guy who didn't do anything.
In the credits you see this picture of cheese.
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:P (oh god I am going to edit this post and delete this crap asap xD)
couple more ideas.
if he gets chance to get on a comp at the station or something when he left unattended, he could download netcat or something, setup a quick shell listening on a port, then email a hacker friend saying something like "desperately needyour help.. im in a police station being charged with….. quick change my release date dude i dont have enough tiem.. here are the details…. " then he can post the IP / port etc etc
might be cool coz then he could do a quick open up command, type ipconfig etc
seems simple to us and we'd understand what he is doing + people watching wont get bored if he hacks fast and them seeing command prompt a few times in the hack they'll just persume he is hacking so they'll follow it along too.
Hacking is just like skateboarding; the people who actually do it are good at it, and learn everyday.
The people who only can watch want to see "cool" tricks, and many tricks. The aren't interested in technique or anything, they just like the output.
mm, you should have some skateboards in the movie :P
Since hackers are getting associated with bored 15 year old's drinking cola, skateboarding and like rock music. Maybe you can change that thought. The hacker is like 35 years old, has a family and a kid of his own and stuff. Has a decent job at some office. You know what I mean.
hack4u wrote: awesome i guess im not the only one trying to make a movie or play about hacking.
i really think hackers made us look bad.. and we need to have something that can change the publics opinnions about hackers.
Hackers did make us look bad… but there are some pretty good hacker movies. Sneakers was a good one…
Anywho, good idea, sounds cool.
ok… so far i have a basic plot.. im not sure how high up in the government the bad dude should be but i might go 24 style and make it all blown out of proportion. im writing it in book format (sorry to all the cinema junkies) but may write a screen play. thinking of calling it "pwned" though its kinda cheesy. (pardon pun plz) so far i have the first chapter written. im trying to keep up the tempo though that usuallly means i lack alot on the storyline. the hacker guy is not gonna be your stereotypical hacker ie. frustrated wannabe rebel teen or a computer nerd. im thinking maybe a frustrated programmer.. i would like to hear from people ideas and stuff as i want it to be as true to real hackers as possible… it is being written partially coz i want to dispel any negative press. @ cheese i dont really want him to get caught but i like the idea of a netsend.
also do you think that something as obvious as a message left in the source would stand up if that was how he hacked the site. like one of the basic challanges..
Don't have it be president, have it be a seneter or a somebody like that. Also, I wrote a screenplay (1 hours 45 minutes) for my school, did the lights and the media, and I also wrote a very original book until the school ripped it of my site…I wouldn't let them have my screenplay after that so they had to cancel that years school play. Everybody hates me because of it, and now I am the outcast in my school, so I have about 3 friends, in a 600 pupil school. So……anyway, if you need any help with dialouge, fight-scene ideas, or basically anything but dialouge, please PM me. As for the hacking scenes, make sure the guy has a incredable WPM and also make sure that he has a cool desktop. This should be done central park and he should have a huge antenna attached to his computer, maybe it should be made out of basic supplies, like a coke can.