Could the absurd computer hacking in Live Free or Die Hard really happen?

**Mike Hawk** · 11-24-2007, 05:41 AM

I was watching Live fee or Die hard last night and was wondering if really causing the U.S. to shutdown like that could happen, or does the F.B.I. really have a superior lets say firewall.

**Zapper2003** · 11-24-2007, 07:51 AM

Pretty neat movie...just watched that last night myself. I've always wondered how we'd all survive without the 'amenities' that we take for granted, just to think as few as 100 years go there wasn't even central heat in homes.

**DanWS6** · 11-24-2007, 07:54 AM

Haven't seen the movie but I'll say no based on the fact that hollywood always does hacking scenes wrong.

**JwMonE99** · 11-24-2007, 10:33 AM

Terminator 3 type of hacking/virus can really happen

**86 IROC-Z** · 11-24-2007, 10:01 PM

No.

I haven't seen the movie.

**syko** · 11-24-2007, 10:37 PM

they always do some off the wall shit when they are showing anything with a computer...couple keystrokes and they just stole a billion dollars or shut down control over the nukes...

**Blitzed** · 11-24-2007, 11:09 PM

I also just saw the movie and it was really good.... lol

**basballny2** · 11-25-2007, 12:14 AM

watched on thanksgiving.....our little cousin whose like 12? who we rip on cause hes the youngest brought it..... we all ripped him for brining it but it was actually pretty good....but no that cant happen

**2MuchFun** · 11-25-2007, 04:22 AM

cant happen even if they work on it for 6 months and were ex fbi employees and had designed the firewall themselves??.........

i dont know anything about hacl<ing, iv did a little on games but theres forums DEDICATED to haking.......iv read a few and they do some pretty crazy stuff.

**TWISTEDA4** · 11-25-2007, 06:24 AM

Knighthawk knows

**86 IROC-Z** · 11-25-2007, 10:58 AM

They put stuff like this in movies because most people know all of jack shit about computers. Not only is it used in the movies for the plot, but also for these computer inept people to have "omg?!?!1//" discussions about it after the movie ends. Whereas, people who actually know about computers just think "lol" to themselves when it happens in the movie and just dismiss it as another "where did the 7th thru 43rd gear shifts come from in your supra vin deisel?" movie moment.

**fccs** · 11-25-2007, 01:30 PM

no...,what do you have the iq of a 2yr old lol

**JwMonE99** · 11-25-2007, 02:02 PM

Speaking of vin diseal shifting from 7th-43rd gear did anyone else catch how paul walker had at least 3 gears for reverse?

**86 IROC-Z** · 11-25-2007, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by JwMonE99

Speaking of vin diseal shifting from 7th-43rd gear did anyone else catch how paul walker had at least 3 gears for reverse?

Thats easy to do, you just replace the drive shaft with an opposite facing transmission...

**Mike Hawk** · 11-25-2007, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by fccs

no...,what do you have the iq of a 2yr old lol

4 yr old

**JwMonE99** · 11-25-2007, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Thats easy to do, you just replace the drive shaft with an opposite facing transmission...

that made me lol

**Knighthawk LS1** · 11-25-2007, 07:59 PM

How they did it in the movie, doubtful, but it if one were smart enough with enough hardware to crack the FBI, FAA and all of that it is possible to shut down the country, however hacking just the FBI and FAA would set off numerious alarms and would never be compleated