Bitcoin on Blacklist (Channel 7)

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  1. col0016

    col0016 Active Member

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    I'm watching a cool show for the first time and they use bitcoins when they steal money and send it anonymously to another account online.
     
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    Did it show the bit where they had to send their ID to a Bitcoin exchange, wait for 2 weeks, then send a help ticket asking why their application hadn't been processed and then finally go and make a bank transfer, for which they waited another 3 days, and THEN finally bought their Bitcoin and sent it "anonymously" only it didn't go through, so they checked the blockchain and for some reason there were these guys that hacked the Bitcoin payment system and screwed up transactions?

    Did they show that bit?
     
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    trew Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Of course not - artistic liberty.

    Ever seen the movie 'The Net' where Sandra Bullock inserts a floppy disk into a PC and a virus magicly uploads itself on to a mainframe ?
     
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    RetardedMonkey Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Can confirm this happens.
     
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    trew Active Member Silver Stacker

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    You confirm the scene happens in the movie or you confirm it was actually possible, in 1995, for a virus, on a floppy, being loaded on to a PC running windows 3.1, to transport itself to a mainframe computer ?

    :lol:
     
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    RetardedMonkey Active Member Silver Stacker

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    The second one.
    Totally possible.
    You just need to connect the overclocked CPU to the network port of the firewalled router inside the mainframe.

    Duh.
     
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    JulieW Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    But in Independence Day I saw a man with an Apple upload a virus to an alien battle fleet and totally destroy it!

    Is it something like that?
     
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    Would never have happened on Windows 98 B.
     
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    This went off topic?
     
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    tozak Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Went off topic like when Flynn got sucked into his computer and had to battle it out with Tron
     
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    RetardedMonkey Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Must admit, I'm a massive fan of the new Tron Legacy, as well as the soundtrack.

    edit: and Olivia Wilde.................. :cool:
     
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    I love it when the goodie breaks into the baddies' office, turns on the computer, hacks the passcode, downloads every file, and is out in sixty seconds.

    I turn on my computer, go and have a leak, make a coffee, go back to the computer... and it's still loading!
     
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    Inserting floppies
    Olivia Wilde
    Done in 60 seconds

    Thread officially derailed.
     
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