Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded 651
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.
Re:Nice Password (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Before you say it... (Score:3, Insightful)
1: To periodically reset the time in the matrix, by permitting all the adults to die while not maintaining crops of infants in suspended animation. Once the adults died, they would then revive the children, and have software "parents" raise them. I dont really like this option, it seems pretty unlikely.
2: The first matrix after the Utopic failure was set in the 14th century, i.e. the beginnings of the Renaissance. This would fit with Smith's description of "the peak of your civilization", depending on your perspective, since this was the period of scientific enlightment. This also sits well with the Oracle's statement that the myths of supernatural creatures all derive from bugs/rogue programs in the Matrix. This also sits well with the idea of the first One appearing, since this was a period wherein people were dramatically reforming their conception of the universe.
There are probably other solutions, but these are two I've thought of.
Re:Uhm... (Score:5, Insightful)
In that regard it would be rather accurate.
A touch of realism. (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope some Saberhagen Berserker's show up in the next movie and settle everybodies hash real good.
Re:Private Network! (Score:2, Insightful)
Well at least they bothered to use the RFC 1918 space in same vein as the 555-xxxx phone numbers. Same as in "AntiTrust". I guess Hollywood folks gringe every time someone mentions "Hackers" and the impossible IP addresses in it =)
Re:Uhm... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:There's some other strange things too. (Score:2, Insightful)
Besides, why would the average grid operator want to individually log into the grid substations and disable them? A nice concise unix command would fire off scripts to do all that.... and yes, if I were the operator I'd want confirmation..
Finally, this is just fiction, ya know? Heck, they used SSH though to make an appeal to geeks
TurboD
Re:Uhm... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re:Screen Shots ?! (Score:5, Insightful)
Nothing wrong at all.
So you're the bastard... (Score:5, Insightful)
All of this managed to make my Matrix experience just that much harder to enjoy.
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Re:Uhm... (Score:4, Insightful)
Heh. So?
So that means that the guys who were doing the hacking previous to Trinity's arrival broke into the public network (or, perhaps they don't have one, but instead the building they were in was appropriately inside their private network) and she was working from a unix box inside the private network that the power station was on. It's like how a lot of crackers these days say that networks tend to be like porcupines: hard and secure on the outside, but nice and soft underneath. They probably never bothered to secure their old SSH1 daemons because they were secure in the belief that noone would get far enough to exploit it.
z1on password (Score:2, Insightful)
I would put this password first in line on my dictionary for password attacks....
I know all my servers will have this password from now on..
Re:Screen Shots ?! (Score:3, Insightful)
Nothing wrong at all.
It's irrelevant how you feel. Guilt is based on legality, under which you clearly are guilty. Whether it's wrong or not is an entirely different matter, but as a matter of principle I've always operated under "two wrongs don't make a right".
Re:Nice Password (Score:4, Insightful)
It's zero-based, duh.
Re:Nice Password (Score:2, Insightful)
The Architect says the machines have destroyed zion 6 times already, and are getting quite efficient at it. Which would imply that this is the 7th iteration of Zion.
However, the Merovingian saying 5 predecessors throws that off. The only real way to make them fit is to determine that the first Zion must not have had a "The One" - it just got too big because of the "utopian" nature of the first matrix, so they wiped it and started again, adding a "The One" to the second Matrix. This goes with the Architect saying that the "mother" of the matrix determined how to make people happy within it on the second go-round. It also means that the current iteration of the Matrix is 7th, as is the current iteration of Zion (which i am more and more convinced is just an overflow buffer for the matrix core) - But Neo is only the 6th "The One"
The real question is if the design had him going into the core or back to rescue Trinity. Did he do what they expected or not? The architect says he was supposed to go into the source. But he sounds totally unsurprised and even describes the emotions and such that lead him NOT to go into the core. So maybe that's part of the plan.
All I know is the next one is gonna rock even harder, as we hopefully get some resolution on all this.
Oh - and the screen that the camera goes through into the interogation room in the first one is one of the architects screens. This fact alone is enough to make me believe that they had all this insanity planned from the start. Groovy.
Re:A theory (Score:5, Insightful)
Remember, Mr. Smith tells himself at one point that everything is the same except for him (just after he made a new copy). So there is differences between the five previous "ones" and the current situation. Remember, the architect was surprised at how fast Neo answered who the mother of the matrix was.
Because of the altered code from Mr. Smith (remember the Agents can control the Sentinels), Neo was able to sense and stop the Sentinels from the Machine's mainframe.
Re:2001? (Score:3, Insightful)
A -1 Overrated? I thought the point about the popups was a little valid. Combined with a previous -1 Redundant on a previous post that as far as I can tell was the only one on its subject...it makes me a little sad. I just tell myself it's n00bs taking "use 'em or lose 'em" a little too literally...gotta moderate *something*
Merovingians and the Matrix (Score:4, Insightful)
So, the actual history of the Merovingians, not so exciting. The mythology is better though, and far more relevant to "The Matrix." The founder of the Merovingians, Merovec, is considered to be somewhat mythical. The first Merovingian for which there is good historical evidence for is Merovec's supposed grandson, Clovis. As the above poster notes, one story has Merovec as half beast. Other accounts (with connections to Gnostic Christianity, a subject that has been much discussed in relation to "The Matrix") claim that Merovec was the descendant of Jesus (and Mary Magdelene). Yeah, I know, but just bear with me. Now, after the Carolingians took over, supposedly a secret society was formed to reinstall the Merovingians to the throne (after all, who could have more authority than someone with the bloodline of David and Jesus?). This society is named the Prieure de Sion, or the Priory of Zion. (ominous music plays for effect)
This secret society, as all secret societies eventually must (seems to be a rule of conspiracy theory), has been linked to the Knights Templar (which were quite real, actually (formed during the Crusades, became quite wealthy through guarding banking transactions, like a medieval Brinks, were annihilated by Philip the Fair in 1307), though the mythology that has sprung up regarding them is vast) and through them to every secret society you've ever heard of- the Freemasons, the Illuminati, etc.... In other words, the character "the Merovingian" is connected in name to bunch of real world secret conspiracy plots, just the sort of thing you'd like for a fictional character connected in deep with secret conspiracy plots. I must admit it's nice to see that the brothers Wachowski have really done their homework.
Re:nmap is easily fooled (Score:3, Insightful)