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Pulled from IMDB, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox voices the consternation perfectly: > Batman: [seeing the wall of monitors for the first time at the Applied Sci
by cyode 7mo ago
Pulled from IMDB, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox voices the consternation perfectly:
> Batman: [seeing the wall of monitors for the first time at the Applied Sciences division in Wayne Enterprises] Beautiful, isn't it?
> Lucius Fox: Beautiful... unethical... dangerous. You've turned every cellphone in Gotham into a microphone.
> Batman: And a high-frequency generator-receiver.
> Lucius Fox: You took my sonar concept and applied it to every phone in the city. With half the city feeding you sonar, you can image all of Gotham. This is wrong.
> Batman: I've gotta find this man, Lucius.
> Lucius Fox: At what cost?
> Batman: The database is null-key encrypted. It can only be accessed by one person.
> Lucius Fox: This is too much power for one person.
> Batman: That's why I gave it to you. Only you can use it.
> Lucius Fox: Spying on 30 million people isn't part of my job description.
- culi 7mo agoLmao did they really say it's null-key encrypted? Unfortunately a very realistic depiction of how many of the brands advertising their security the strongest often have the most ridiculously broken security (flock)
- StilesCrisis 7mo agoI rewatched recently. That's what he says all right.
- parl_match 7mo agoHe also says "aflongaflongkong". https://youtu.be/0ukMXA0SJaM https://youtu.be/0ukMXA0SJaM
- OrangeMusic 7mo agoHe says "What's wrong with a phone call?".
- seg_lol 7mo agoThey should have used base64 encryption.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoThere are performance concerns with base64. Hardware-assisted null-key encryption offers security that's a non-strict superset of base64 encryption and with superior performance.
- hn_acc1 7mo agonull-key encryption is write-once, read-never, so you don't have to cache it.
- HiPhish 7mo agoHow about ROT13? Ideally applied twice for twice the encryption.
- CrazyStat 7mo agoROT13 is cheap enough that you can afford to apply it many more times. I use one million iterations to store passwords securely.
- mixmastamyk 7mo ago640k oughtta be enough for anybody.
- foobarchu 7mo agoMd5 encryption would be far superior.
- rightbyte 7mo agoI mean it is technobabble but in some way it is also poetic.
- padjo 7mo agoThe Nolan Batman movies are absolutely risible in retrospect. It's hard to believe how seriously everyone took them back then.
- simmerup 7mo agoThey’re good entertainment, not a documentary haha
- pc86 7mo agoNot a single person in the world took any of them "seriously." They're blockbuster movies about a comic book.
- padjo 7mo agoHah. People absolutely took them seriously and still do. They are pitched as if they're serious important art about issues. People discussed it like it was King Lear.
- culi 7mo agoI mean, one actor took their role so seriously they locked themselves up in hotel room for a month in isolation to prepare for their role as Joker. Many people in film took it seriously. Just because a piece is fictional or imaginative doesn't mean it can't be taken seriously
- reaperducer 7mo agoLmao did they really say it's null-key encrypted? You know movies aren't real life, don't you?
- simmerup 7mo agoWait until he sees the main character is a super hero
- selcuka 7mo agoBatman is technically not a super (as in superhuman) hero, though. He's just rich and determined.
- testdelacc1 7mo agoWait till he sees a billionaire sacrificing himself for others.
- butlike 7mo agoTechnically not a super hero. He's whatever Gotham needs him to be
- OrangeMusic 7mo ago"Null key" is technobabble, which I appreciate more than an actual real world technology reference which is wrong or gets outdated.
- chatmasta 7mo agoThat system is nothing compared to the geolocation databases curated by Apple and Google, with GPS sensors combined with Wi-Fi wardriving, IMEI tracking, cell tower handoffs, and the rest of the insane amount of telemetry they collect collect in real time. And that’s before even considering BLE and the Find My network. Imagine the “God mode” dashboards they could have in Cupertino (or more likely, in Mountain View).
- cluckindan 7mo agoImagine a Google Maps / Google Earth where you can see everyone’s location and identity in real time, with tagging/targeting/following capabilities and quick links to thorough personal profiles.
- mystraline 7mo agoOr Palantir of NOTHANKS.
- aembleton 7mo agoAnd see everyone they interacted with in the last 24 hours
- cluckindan 7mo agoNot only that: also nth-order interactions (Alice—Bob, Bob—Charlie, Charlie—Deborah, …), connectivity clustering, time spent in same location heatmaps, etc.
- riffraff 7mo agobut one can choose not to use a device which is tracked, I cannot opt out of other people's cameras.
- yndoendo 7mo agoThese devices are very few in reality. One reason why I keep investing in almost every company that makes a Linux based smartphone. Still need the 2FA and digital magazine for the loo. Even large retails install bluetooth tracking in their buildings now. Was interviewing for one of them and they ask what you would use that style of tracking for to support the consumer. Giving the consumer a reason to use it helps validate and maximize the meta data.
- dangets 7mo agoGo back a little bit further to another Morgan Freeman movie - Se7en (1995) and a big plot point was that it is unthinkable for big brother to be keeping records of what library books people are checking out. Times sure have changed...
- echelon_musk 7mo agoHaving rewatched that movie recently I found it absurd that all the killer would have had to have done to evade capture was purchase books with cash.
- badpenny 7mo agoSlight digression and spoiler alert, but, IIRC, wasn't it a significant part of the plot that he wanted to be caught?
- 542354234235 7mo agoI'm going off memory, but I thought the library books led them to John Doe's apartment, something he was not planning for, and required him to change his plans somewhat. He did want to be caught, but not that soon, before he had finished his work, and required a hurried escape.
- badpenny 7mo agoAhh, okay. That makes sense.