2012-02-20
Original: 2012-02-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner: MOVIE HACKING...)
Man with glasses (at a computer): If I can just overclock the Unix Django, I can basic the DDOS root. Damn. No dice. But wait... if I disencrypt their kilobytes with a backdoor handshake then... JACKPOT.
Panel 2 (header banner: REAL HACKING...)
Red-haired man on phone: Hi, this is Robert Hackerman. I'm the county password inspector.
Man with headset (call-center worker): Hi Bob! How can I help you today?
Votey:
The call-center man, thinking to himself: There sure are a lot of Hackermans out there...
Man with glasses (at a computer): If I can just overclock the Unix Django, I can basic the DDOS root. Damn. No dice. But wait... if I disencrypt their kilobytes with a backdoor handshake then... JACKPOT.
Panel 2 (header banner: REAL HACKING...)
Red-haired man on phone: Hi, this is Robert Hackerman. I'm the county password inspector.
Man with headset (call-center worker): Hi Bob! How can I help you today?
Votey:
The call-center man, thinking to himself: There sure are a lot of Hackermans out there...
Alt text
A two-panel comic contrasting movie hacking with real hacking. Top panel, labeled 'MOVIE HACKING...', shows a man in glasses at a computer rattling off technobabble: 'If I can just overclock the Unix Django, I can basic the DDOS root. Damn. No dice. But wait... if I disencrypt their kilobytes with a backdoor handshake then... JACKPOT.' Bottom panel, labeled 'REAL HACKING...', is split between a red-haired man on the phone saying 'Hi, this is Robert Hackerman. I'm the county password inspector,' and a friendly headset-wearing call-center worker replying 'Hi Bob! How can I help you today?'—real hacking is just social engineering. Votey: the same call-center worker, now thinking to himself in a black-and-white panel, 'There sure are a lot of Hackermans out there...', implying he's been fooled by this trick many times before.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.