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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 days agoI feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•10 days agoThe original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 days agoHackers predate the Internet. Phone phreaking, like the Captain Crunch whistle is basically the origin of hacking and hacker culture. But your larger point is valid and there was probably more than a little cocaine involved with thinking up that story.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•10 days agoYou can’t really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn’t have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them. In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.
I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.
Hackers predate the Internet. Phone phreaking, like the Captain Crunch whistle is basically the origin of hacking and hacker culture.
But your larger point is valid and there was probably more than a little cocaine involved with thinking up that story.
TIL
You can’t really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn’t have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.
In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.