Supercut shows how Hollywood thinks hacking works

Mentalfloss:

One movie trope Hollywood just can’t seem to move past? The frantic hacker. Here’s how those scenes usually go: A character on the screen is shown banging away at a keyboard while a timer counts down and lines of code flash across their monitor. But how realistic is that? YouTuber elsafrickey compiled clips from various movies made between 1970 and 2000, and the resulting supercut shows that while technology has changed over the years, the misrepresentation of hacking has remained consistent.

I won’t lie – I’ve made several girlfriends and one wife nuts from yelling at the TV screen, “That’s not how it’s done!”