Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded

rajiv was among dozens to report that unlike most "Hacks" in film, The Matrix reloaded actually has an ounce of reality where other films would rely on fancy 3D graphics. You can see more at Insecure.org where they have screenshots. It's only on screen for a split second, but Tritnity uses Nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then exploits it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001.

Uhm...

[Anonymous Coward]

In response to :-

> The Matrix reloaded actually has an ounce of
> reality where other films would rely on fancy
> 3D graphics.

So in several hundred years time people STILL won't have patched their bloody SSH holes?

Yah actually I guess that is reality ;o)

AL

Re:Nice Password

[2MuchC0ffeeMan]

no, she speaks l33t, so it's Z10N0101 ... :)

No IPv6 huh?

[hillct]

Severla hundred years in the future and still, IPv6 hasn't been adopted. Personally, I'm not suprised. It'll take an act of god to get it deployed.

--CTH

Sexy

[Anonymous Coward]

"...Tritnity uses Nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then exploits it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001.."

Now THAT is sexy! :)

nmap is easily fooled

[Adam Rightmann]

While namp is a neat hack, before any of you juvenile deliquents think of using it to commit computer hacking felonies, be aware that it is easily fooled.

If you look at the source code, you can see which ports it queries, and which responses it maps against. We used this for great affect at Adequacy, http://www.adequacy.org, editing the registry of our Win 2k box, and the configuration files of the various TCP/IP programs to make it appear as a simple FreeBSD to the casual hacker.

Oh, the laughs were on us when those script children proceeded to attempt to hack us with canned scripts for use against FreeBSD, only to fail. The looks on their pimply, greasy faces were probably priceless, only to be matched when the local law enforcement arrived at their parents house to confiscate their computers.

Screen Shots ?!

[gurnb]

How do they have screen shots ?! Is it possible that this movie has been leaked out to the INTERNET?!

It's madness I tell you, madness!!!

Still waiting for disc 2 to d/l, so I can verify this for myself. Purely for educational reasons.

lol..

[DaLiNKz]

This was actually sorta cool when i read it in this story [slashdot.org].. It was interesting to see her portscan then jump into the server.. The chick sittin next to me wasnt aware of anything about it because she doesnt use linux, but i was like "OI!!! Thats real! look look!!! SSH!!! LOOK!!" .. then a few people looked at me weird :s

Whoah

[parkanoid]

Deja Vu! (read: dupe. Must be a glitch in the matrix).

Re:Nice Password

[usr122122121]

I thought it was actually the 7th incarnation of the city -- 6 saviors came before, after all.

Well, if you take all the zeros and letters out of the password "Z10N0101", you're left with "111", which is 7 in binary.

Coincidence? PERHAPS NOT. :-p

Wooh

[Anonymous Coward]

You should never log in as root :x

Re:Private Network!

[mrpuffypants]

After assing the movie I promptly went home and changed my entire home IP network to the 10.2.2.x subnet. The home FreeBSD server is now 10.2.2.2, so everytime I jump in to modify the firewall or whatever I can feel like I'm "hacking the matrix" ...my life is pathetic :(

Re:No IPv6 huh?

[Waffle Iron]

Even if everyone on Earth were ready to migrate to IPv6, it still wouldn't happen. As we found out in Independence Day, IPv4 is an entrenched *intergalactic* standard. There are just too many star systems involved to be able to roll out this upgrade in the forseeable future.

Re:nmap is easily fooled

[antsquish]

... and after all that work making it appear as a FreeBSD box, you go and confess to all of slashdot that it's really a Win2k box...... I guess that saves everyone a bit of work? :-)

I can see it now...

[iceT]

"The envelope, please."

"And the award for the best open-source hacking tool used in a motion picture goes to nmap, for it's cameo-appearence in Matrix: Reloaded"

"Camera scans the audience where we see tripwire, sitting with his girlfriend ethereal... cuts to ndiff, who is just beaming w/ pride..."

Re:nmap is easily fooled

[Bananenrepublik]

I'm wondering why www.adequacy.org went down _now_? Maybe somehow someone found out about your top secret protection scheme?

Re:Whoah

[DavidBrown]

Deja Vu! (read: dupe. Must be a glitch in the matrix).

Actually, this is the sixth time this posting has been duped...

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Re:Sexy

[geeber]

mmmmm Trinity... She can exploit me any time she wants!

Re:Bay Area

[SN74S181]

They don't even bother putting a women's restroom in that theatre, huh?

Re:No IPv6 huh?

[markov_chain]

Recall the first Matrix, where Agent Smith rants about the humans' deficiencies, and mentions the failure of an early beta version of the Matrix. It failed because they made the simulation too good, and people were missing all the pain and suffering.

So they put IPv4 back in.

Line deleted from the original script

[Anonymous Coward]

"I know this. It's a Unix system!"

Re:Pix

[kampit]

Yeah, and if you look at the pictures closer, you notice

(The 1539 ports scanned but not shown below are in the state: closed)
/t State Service
/tcp open ssh

So she does know there's an sshd running on the system, then she throws the 'spoit and it works.. maybe you'd prefer it if there had been a 3 hour sequence where she coded up her own exploit, DDoS'd the whole matrix and pranced around in the nude saying 'marvelous!', but sometimes you just have to make sacrifices to please the general audience :)

Re:Lies

[Rick.C]

I knew this story was a lie when you mentioned a chick sitting next to you.

Your mind is closed, Grasshopper. You see only with your eyes. You think only what you wish to think. Close your eyes, Grasshopper. Open your mind.

I also was sitting next to a really hot chick at The Matrix, but I didn't dare ask her name for fear of what her boyfriend would do to me.

Re:I KNEW it was too good to be true

[caluml]

Or to put it another way - maybe all script kiddies are like Trinity? :)

Maybe the pimply-faced 14 year old stereotype is just a myth put about by the gorgeous women that actually deface websites, and DDoS IRC networks?

I mean, who's **actually** met a script kiddie?

Re:Reading too much into it...

[Rick.C]

Hey, didn't Morpheus himself say "free your mind"? Stop thinking every gawd damn word is meant to be spiritually profound! :P

Wow! You said "gawd". Not God, or god, but gawd.

That's awesome!

Are you implying that there is no one God, or even a multitude of gods?

Profound!

Now if you were typing in all lower-case, we could interpret "gawd" as an acronym that didn't get capitalized. But that's clearly not the case. So you're saying that gawd is not a proper noun and must therefore be a generic term, much like "devil".

OR... maybe you're a dyslexic hillbilly and you meant "dawg". (I get those mixed up all the time, too.)

OR... maybe you live in fear of God and you were trying to avoid a blasphemy rap when you stand at the Pearly Gates.

Damn script kiddies.

[FauxPasIII]

She's got sense enough to use a sploit, but she chooses a feeble password like Z1ON0101. Come ON, Trin, only 2 character classes, only 8 characters ? -sigh-

Re:10.2.2.2

[recursiv]

Congrat-u-fucking-lations.

You have determined that the controller for the power grid was on a private network. Maybe this explains the need for Trinity to infiltrate the lab to use a specific computer rather than any internet cafe. (hint: behind firewall)

People like to talk a lot of shit about the matrix, but when you do it, you might as well make an argument that makes some small amount of sense.

Re:Private Network!

[feldy]

After assing the movie

The sad thing is, I have no idea what verb you were actually trying to use.

Dork!

[jabber01]

This spoils nothing but the first film.

The statute of limitation on spoliers runs out once the film shows up at Blockbuster.

Re:Private Network!

[PhoenixK7]

I tinted my terminal green after seeing it, so don't feel so ashamed ;)

My new password ...

[LoudMusic]

Will NOT be Z1ON0101. However, I will be adding that to my dictionaries (:

Re:So you're the bastard...

[Trevalyx]

Well, minus the little hellians and the beeper, that's me. Sometimes I bring my laptop along in anticipation that there are going to be a few dull scenes. Though I try to keep conference calls on my phone with tons of flashy multicolored lights to a minimum after credits, sometimes it just happens, ya know? Also, I always always carry bang-snaps to movies. They're to throw at people who complain. The firecrackers are for people who complain twice. Roman candles for anyone who dares go beyond that.

The site admins must have M$ day jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Because the site advertises 50 reasons, but only 20 are available right now... and releasing an unfinished product to the public is something Microsoft does! All that was missing was the click-through EULA.

Re:No IPv6 huh?

[Goalie_Ca]

What are aliens supposed to do without their evil bit?

Re:Private Network!

[Anonymous Coward]

After assing the movie...

Hey, I was at that theater and really... not liking the movie is still no excuse to run up and place your butt up on the screen.

Re:10.2.2.2

[phillymjs]

Anyone who complains about 555- numbers in movies should be forced to live in a home with two phone lines:

8675309 [amazon.com]

8535937 [squeezefan.com]

~Philly

Re:Before you say it...

[beebware]

They've evolved to become invisible flying cars - that's why you can't see them.

Re:Nice Password

[ANTI]

yeah,
nice pwd.

And I guess I'll have to change the root password on all our boxes again ;)

Re:nmap is easily fooled

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks more like their site should be http://www.inadequacy.org.

/me laughs at this admins stupidity.

Re:Uhm...

[Nathaniel]

"Yes this is all assuming that there isn't a meta-matrix in which the matrix is run. It seems pretty obvious to me that that is what the last scene was trying to portray in a subtle way.

And if there is a meta-matrix, what prevents having a meta-meta-matrix and so on? Its really impossible to speculate the age of the matrix based on this information."

Yeah, so there's a meta matrix, and Neo has woken up in that outer world, which explains the coma.

Right, whatever.

So I expect the third movie will go something like this: Neo realizes he is in the meta matrix, and begins to wonder if there is a meta meta matrix. He tries to wake up from that matrix, by hitting something to see if it also feels 'wrong'. Repeat this a few times, and Neo is just diving out windows each time he 'wakes up', until at the end of the third movie we see some pimple-faced kid take a dive out a high-rise apartment complex, and the movie ends with a news crew interviewing neighbors, who blame teen suicide on these new immersive video games.

Slashdotted :) (Re:nmap is easily fooled)

[Anonymous Coward]

After all those careful work, you post it here to get slashdotted? Pathetic :)

Re:Bay Area

[Frank of Earth]

>Mountain View, CA

Yeah, but who wants to eat soy popcorn with soy flavored butter sprinkled with alfalfa sprouts?

Re:Neo is indeed a program.

[protonman]

many of the "higher" programs (oracle, architect, seraph, merovingian etc.) "hang out" in the matrix? why? [everquest.com]

Re:Private Network!

[the-build-chicken]

I got dressed up in a tight black vinyl female suit, padded a bra, died my hair black and cut it short, put on lipstick.......yeah, green...I mean yeah, I turned my terminal green too...that's what i did