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- Once again, hacker and security researcher Samy Kamkar takes a look at a variety of hacking scenes from popular media and examines their authenticity. Is the 3D file system from Jurassic Park real? Can you actually hack a smart fridge like in Silicon Valley? Is there a difference between a virus and a worm?
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He literally released a worm accidentally and had a "woops, I guess I'm on a watchlist now" moment, what a man
In fairness, the MySpace code was hot garbage. Doesn't surprise me at all that he could write a worm and have it spread as far as it did there.
"Oh no! Anyways..."
@@arnox4554 Any idea where I can find his exploit code? I’ve only seen different versions of it created by fans
@@younesmohssen8158 Nope. Sorry.
A real chad move
Being an IT major and hearing him say when I was a child .....he was hacking worldwide websites. Didn’t have to flex that hard 😂😂😂
Many in computer security/white hat hackers have done things in the past which euh... showed they could be good in security :-)
Take in consideration this was back in the day when an SQL injection could take down major websites 😂
@@harrisonachunche4098 you are right about that 😂😂
@@harrisonachunche4098 still is
@@younesmohssen8158 if the developer is stupid enough
17:59 Her getting the USB stick in the right way on the first try, that's more impressive than the hacking.
That’s some black widow magic going on there.
@@chiralvandal Russian spy training is something else.
As someone else pointed out, the USB symbol goes up. Having said that, what if the port is turned to stand up like on the side of a monitor? I think on mine, the symbol points back.
The plastic piece on the male connector goes on the bottom for laptops, usually. A lot of connectors don't have the logo.
I went on the dark web and clicked a few links and a message keeps popping up saying “download?”with a link, help I’m scared💀
You ever just look at somebody and think: "That guy is a hacker."
This is that guy.
hi hokage obama
@@tamber5977 hello
HACKERMAN
P pop
But where's his hoodie?
This dude was quite the menace when he was young 😂
probably still is, just learned how to not get caught
No MySpace profile was safe!
Yup, now he just writes hacks and sells em to the government so they can spy on us easier!
What a great guy!
@@BoleDaPole also he works in physical hacking with radiowaves he is not a mallware writer so no he doesnt "write hacks"... noob
@@BoleDaPole lmfao “writes hacks”
You clearly have no idea what you’re even talking about.
My most frustrating part about hacking scenes is when the hacker furiously types about 1000 characters but on the screen you clearly see them only typing in two or three words lmao
For me it's typing complete filenames without using Tab to complete, if they want to show someone typing fast they'll better do it right
It also bothers me that they never show hackers reading or researching anything. They just always know every command they want to type off the top of their head. I've been a professional software engineer for almost a decade and I still google which flags I need to use for a grep/findstr when I switch OSes
@@MrLifeKills That's what makes me laugh. You never see the docs!
Yea they always go brrrrapadapadapa boff done in 3 seconds.
IRL it can take months, years, decades.
Actually, they're hacking so fast you're only seeing the afterimages.
"I 'accidentally' hacked MySpace." 😂😂
That was definitely intended for any Feds watching.
he already was raided for this at that time and he entered a plea agreement. So pretty certain he has had his punishment.
@@autohmae so, for the Judge?
@@marreco6347 lol
@The Real Gordon Ramsay we get it redditor
@@autohmae Yeah but he probably still doesn't admit to it. That's just bad marketing for his current career. Stick with the story you know?
If you want to hear more of Samy's childhood exploits, he did an interview with the podcast Darknet Diaries (Ep. 61: Samy) where he describes how he got into computers, the MySpace incident, and the fallout.
great info, thx!
@@NielsHarsloef1 The Darknet dairies is amazing, it was first binge hear a podcast so fast and crave for more. Do you know any another podcasts like that.
Sadly dieversity got broke since myspace went off tracks.
But nevertheless only few mega tec limiteds are easier to sovietise than a many.
Thanks for concentrating on camps and campussys.
Might know where your house lives.
He ran some premade scripts, horray. So pro. Bet hes never found his own 0days tbh
I love the darknet dairies thank you for sharing ! I’ll definitely check it now that I know lol
We need a part 3 AND more stories about what Samy has "hacked" through the years more than MySpace.
I'm willing to bet there's not a lot after that. Seems like he's a whitehat now.
Watch the movie hacker its deutch
Check his wikipedia page
he has a vid on youtube somewhere where he gives instruction on 'hacking' satellites over radio. or check out defcon vids
Will if you were him would you flex a little bit 🤔 It would be awesome if I knew as much as him
The editing was much better than the last session with Samy. You let him speak, thank you!
Yeah I often look for WIRED videos dated 2020 to watch because that's the point when they stopped cutting the experts with joke lines in the movies.
i was wondering why this video was oddly fun to watch
21:36 - "I
did ACCIDENTALLY release a worm on a popular site" - Samy you're my hero 😁
That the moment you say to yourself. “Wait that was you!!!! Lol that was hilarious”
@@savagewolverine6992 and you would also say "Samy is my hero"!
I would love to have a 20 minute video of him talking about Mr. Robot hacks
THIS
Mr Robot is really good when it comes to realism, the fact they even approached the developers of kali to get permission to use it in the show is one of the most obvious tells of how much they cared.
Its alrdy there
That one where I think they used a felt marker, but the tip was a barrel plug they popped into the bottom of a hotel room lock? That's real and it's hilarious. It's the 2012 Onity lock hack and you basically just set up an Arduino to peek at the lock's memory and play back a code to it, which it obligingly unlocks for. It worked on about 1/4 of the affected locks and really was miniaturized into marker bodies.
good idea man!
When he was talking about the time he crashed myspace or MagSpoof, it was just pure flex
It's important to note that his worm didn't crash the site -- it was basically harmless. The only thing it did was add him as a friend and put the text "but most of all, samy is my hero" on your profile. MySpace shut down their servers in order to clean it up which cost them in man hours but he didn't damage anything.
@@danceswithdirt7197 Dude, I am a CSE major. I know that. I just wanted to use fewer words :) That's why I said "crashed", instead of "forced them to shut down".
@@fahimmorshed That's cool. I just wanted to clarify for the people who might read this and aren't CSE majors.
@@danceswithdirt7197 Well you do have a point tho :3 I don't wanna edit my initial comment to make you seem like a douche. But in the end, people with no CSE major don't really need to understand it completely either. Good day to you btw.
This sentence seems wrong. Wouldnt it be "when he was talking about the time he crashed myspace and created magspoof, it was just a pure flex"
Ye, we need a video of him talking about some of his "projects". That man has some stories to tell and I want to hear them
He has a CZcams channel, you should check it out, guy's crazy good
he has a channel and most cybercrime channels mention him regularely haha why do people want stuff pre chewed for them do some research dude ...
I like how he just got straight to the point as soon as the video started instead of a 5 minute intro.
How movies see hackers: Anonymous masked guy with hoodie
Hacker irl: Casual guy with glasses and normal clothes
his ability to maintain his composure (and not laugh at some of these scenes) is admirable
But that's because it's not funny, it's sad (what movies do).
Also I find that he is still way too lenient. It's better than in his first video, but still lenient. An example at the end showed a capture of existing commands. Yes they are actual commands, but it still made no sense. I find this takes me out more of a movie/show than old movies did with their senseless "hacking 100%" progress bar.
It's like a movie going "look aren't we smart, we know you need a hammer to put in a nail" and then goes on to throw hammers at the nail.
This guy is the "Samy is my hero" guy? He's an absolute legend lmao
I like how this guy is confident and actually intelligent enough to back it up. The faraday cage topic isn't really related to hacking and he answered that one without any apparent uncertainty.
Search his name in Google and you'll see how intelligent he is.
To be fair, the faraday cage concept is not that hard to comprehend. Just because the majority of people do not care to learn about it does not mean the people that do are necessarily more intelligent. Not saying he isn't though either lol
@@weaveraliya it makes him appear much more knowledgable. The wave to wire mesh size comparison is not as well known as the concept of a farraday cage.
I like to see wide knowledgability
@@Stickmanzed , I'm an electrical engineer and was impressed. All too often people get just enough information to be dangerous with it and think any mesh cage is a Faraday cage. His comment illustrates at least a basic understanding of the electromagnetics.
Though, I disagree that it isn't related to hacking, as hacking is a culture of understanding various technologies overall. However, even more directly, you may 'hack' a computer system via something known as Van Eck phreaking, whereby you can eavesdrop on electronic equipment by the electromagnetic waves being generated by their operation. These days a lot of security research is being done around side channel attacks, so knowledge of electronics is increasingly important.
The fact the file browser in jurassic park was actually real is blowing my mf mind
Same, especially since I thought I was the first person to have this idea in 2020 xD
VRML was a thing in the early 2000s, we just didn't have the bandwidth to make it big like we do now.
Yeah although the file browser in the movie hackers... I die a little inside when I see that one.
That was clearly a nod to SGI, since they gave all the IRIX workstations on which the CG was done for original Jurassic Park.
Didn't realise this was the MySpace dude, what a legend!
he did so much more cooler stuff since haha
He's my hero
Now people shut down hospitals and try to extort 20 million dollars. Computer hacking has changed.
me too
Wow this is the guy that created that worm?! I remember that. It didn't effect my circle but me and all my friends were really upset that MySpace was down for a minute and remember seeing news articles about it. That is so funny.
Taking over a TV signal? I'm old enough to remember wondering what just happened to whatever we were watching on HBO when i was a teenager thanks to Captain Midnight back in the '80s.
Thank you for bringing Samy back to break down hollywood hacking scenes. As someone in cybersec this is very entertaining.
@WIRED N...o
While fun, I honestly want him to show whatever he's been working on.
@@autohmae you can look up his website or his Wikipedia page for that
@@AUBCodeII you can listen to podcast darknet dairies ep61 where he tells about his early and his expliots
"Ah ah ah. You didn't say the magic word."
-Dennis Nedry, Jurassic Park
Newman!
I don't know about hacking but I think that would of been possible since they said he made the software line by line...
@@brianfeher5077 He said this is "less likely to happen in a realistic scenario." What our expert here is saying is that Nedry probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble to put taunts into his temporary lockout code -- or that within the normal permission model and Unix output style would you do something like this. Better to cover your tracks with quiet failures or mysterious technobabble than to have the finger point back at you by using a taunt.
@@mdfogarty why wouldn't he have enough time to put taunts into his temporary lockout code, he probably put it into the original program when he first made it.
SUDO
8:45 The data is actually stored on a thin layer of metal between the polycarbonate. Throwing a CD into a microwave causes arcing on the metallic layer and creates a large amount of blank spots that are near impossible to reconstruct.
i did this once, fantastic light show. still have the CD :).... please take microwave outside before attempting this yourself.
I love how this guy didn’t say any of these things were impossible. He is so smart that he understands that anything is possible and the sky really is the limit. It is admirable.
Me currently taking an introductory Python course: "Ah yes, of course."
It's a minor point I suppose, but I think OCR is much more commonly known as "Optical Character Recognition", not "Object Character Recognition"
I was about to comment this myself. 😝
Yeah, he misspoke and no one bothered / dared to correct him.
lol it made me think i was wrong all these years
Yup. Optical
Yup - came to say the same thing
He could be the real life Superman. I didn't even recognize it was him with glasses on.
no random cuts this time...good job editor.
We all know that 90s classic "Hackers" is a true to life hacking film. Arguably the most accurate ever.
Hack the Planet!
That X-files clip was a flashback episode years before the show began.
Which episode or movies is that?
@@aeroyes9353 season 5, episode 3
Yeah was going to say this. They were at some government tech expo or something. it would make sense if it was the late 80's they had arpanet then.
@@kotkaconforza yep it was meant to be 1989.
@@kotkaconforza Not a government expo, the big G just bought a booth there like everybody else - presumably to hand out recruitment materials and public service pamphlets. A lot of the other booths were pretty sketchy and a few were flat-out criminal (like one of the other future lone gunmen selling cable TV pirating solutions).
Wired has been sleeping on the girl with the dragon tattoo for hacking and disguise scenes!
“Oh yeah you know I may have infected millions of MySpace users with a worm a while back, but no big deal”
hes famous for it lol i love how people dont even know that haha no wonder yalls accounts get hacked
I mean MySpace was trash when it comes to security so it's not surprising.
@@myname-mz3lo Do you know who fixed the aerodynamics issues on the real GT40s which with the team went on to win the 24 hours of LeMans?
19:52
Drunk at 11 pm, i said "unlikely" before he did and that felt like the greatest moment of my life.
i like how he smile’s and starts to explain
THE CREATORS OF MR ROBOT USED HIS DEVICE IN A NEW WAY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS? WOW THAT SHOW IS AMAZING
Did someone hack your caps lock?
Yes. The cool part is the fact that, not only did the show actually use a tool that is realistic, and exists in the world - they theorised a completely new and realistic method of using the tool which was verified by the creator of the tool (Samy Kamkar)
As unrealistic as he points out the Oceans phishing hack is. I still feel weirdly bad for the guy.
Dude just wanted to look at cute puppies, how can anyone use that to hack the poor man
You store the image files IN the mp3 as album art. You can store multiple image files in each audio file. You can even have them change at a specific point in the audio's timeline. I'm not sure why this wasn't used more. :)
It's called steganography
@@alexandrugheorghe5610 Thank you! 😀
If hacking is involved, Mr. Robot is a must, even tho it was already included in the previous part before, it just show how accurate it was
I think the stuff they did in Jurassic Park was just to help the audience follow the action, create tension. Had no idea that 3-D map was a real thing!
Samy Kamkar and Sam Esmail break down Mr.Robot scenes. Make It Happen
Today on Wired:
Tech channel with no foresight stops interview, because they didn't bring enough Video Storage.
"Why would there be an encrypted file in a secret government database?" I was thinking why not?
There are also encrypted files on every device you use. It would be weird if you had a device without an encrypted file.
I’m so happy that they made a part two, I’ve been waiting for this and I didn’t even know it
My absolute favorite part was him nitpicking on the verbose flag not outputting nearly as much data as he wanted to see😂😂😂
@BilboTheDev I kinda expected him to also comment on the 'sudo' (or at least sudo without a different username) while the user was already root.
Whoever wrote the dialogue for that Fate of the Furious scene should be charged with a crime against cinema. Eesh.
I'm so used to seeing the ad for NordVPN that I was expecting him to drop an ad block for NordVPN haha during the Apple store hack scene. Wait... did I just drop an ad for NordVPN? NOOOOOO
@WIRED You're not gonna hack me buddy. -_- I'm onto you.
I think VPNs are not enough if government is trying to hunt you down.
they are usually enough for torrents.
I wouldn't. They're basically good for light encryption needs such as torrents, or geoblocked sites/apps. I use one all the time. It's also nice to know that your ISP doesn't know what you're doing.
man, i love the first Jurassic Park more by the day.
17:06 one of my favorite shows, glad you showed this amazing scene.
I liked his Newman reference,a man of culture
I thought you were an importer/exporter.. What are you doing watching a video on hacking?
The Snowden aptitude test seems a lot like a CCIE test.
"but most of all, samy is my hero"
these sessions with sami are why i even watch wired . great content . id love to see him react to news stories about the biggest hacks or movies about actual hackers like mitnick
I liked that he didn't make fun of Hackers. The idea of Hackers was to make a visually artistic interpretation of hacking, not represent the actual boring coding part. Sure, the movie threw in a bunch of computer words nonsensically, but it turned a lot of folks onto legit hacking and introduced them to the verbiage.
Dude casually telling you how you should do it on the roof of a store with wifi rather than inside xDD
Yeah, that tip was too legit... I'd be careful to give tips like that
Much better editing than the first time he did this!
8 year old me: *hacks into my moms email that is logged in on the computer* SuPeR sPy
You can actually do a secure delete in moments if you use a good whole-drive encryption scheme. Basically, instead of trying to delete the data itself, unmount it and overwrite the decryption key. That is equivalent to deleting the data.
Exactly. That's how many modern smartphones wipe your whole data on the device in seconds.
The scene in the Silicon Valley😭✋
great show
Doh, OCR: Optical Character Recognition!
I was starting a list. Then I just said meh. But yes, that was the first one.
The editing here is definitely better than the previous part. Nice job!
8:20 my goto for hdd/ssd destruction in this case would be Thermite.
I loved this. Very informational. I would like to see more
"This player is not hacking they're simply skilled and won't be banned"
Literally the player:
Would love to see you do the best hacking scene of all time - old school! David Brightman (Matthew Broderick) in War Games, which was based on some real life incidents (not to mention that the exact “computer sending bombs” scenario almost happened in Russia about a year after the film’s release)
Bro I heard about the MySpace thing like six years ago and thought it was hilarious. So cool seeing the creator of it and to hear his prospective.
You should make a finance expert breaks down movies (eg: wolf of wall street)
i googled this dude and hes an absolute legend 😭
What did he do?
@@jackthecommenter2768 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Kamkar
Sammy is a really cool dude
What I find unrealistic in the Jurassic Park hacking scene was when the adults were holding the door as the Velociraptors were pushing it open, and they were trying to reach their guns; they didn't ask the other kid to push the guns into their reach
I love how he calls him Newman
"your ex-boyfriend is ... in the computers?" Well. I have a PhD in Computer Science and I worked during the last 20 years for a few high-tech companies doing 'computer' activities related to compilation and HPC (high performance computing). Even now, I really don't know what to say when I am asked about my job. Part of my activity is to write software but I am not really a developer or a software developer. I sometime refer to myself as a software engineer but I do not have the official diploma. Anyways, I have a hard time to explain what I am doing to most people so for them I am probably the big guy in the computers.
Diplomas, degrees, and certificates are about as meaningful as nutrition labels on food. They COULD be important in some ways and in some situations but most people don't look at it or care about it as long as the food isn't woefully misrepresented. If the front label says it's a Twinky and it tastes like a Twinky then it goes down the hatch and the label is discarded.
When I see a movie based in the modern world and hear "zoom. Enhance." I immediately get the urge to turn it off or leave.
22:46 In general, all these commands should have produced output. The only thing I can think of is that he has reset the standard output to a file, rather than to the screen.
Always a pleasure to see Samy, he's such a good dude, and an inspiring true hacker
You shoulda shown him Kung Fury.
he looks like if Gordon Freeman shaved his beard a little and could speak
I've heard several stories about things that this guy did on the Internet and never would've realized it was him until he said it. What a madlad
Regarding the V for Vendetta clip, there was a line in the scene that explained it; the media head honcho is heard shouting down the phone saying something to the effect of "YOU wanted it foolproof, you told me EVERY TV in London!"
My celebrity crush is back ❤️
I was waiting for him to do the "Shut Up And Dance" episode of Black Mirror. Would have been a better insert than the Rihanna scene. Lol Maybe he did it before though.
Just thought I would chime in, there are a lot of module controlled parking brakes these days. That is all, nice job! Keep up the awesome content guys!
5:35 actually OCR stands for "optical character recognition"
2:02 Stealing dinosaur DNA is totally something I could see Newman do!
Nah, more like the formula for Drake’s coffee cake
That Captain America clip has to be the dumbest "hacking" in recent years...
gotta get those applebux, even though they pride themselves on security lol
Bro youre watching captain america with super human and mind controlled man with a metal arm. Also the shield helipads
you can increase the suspension of disbelief a little.
Can't believe you guys made a part 2, I had to stop rewatching the first one.
That ipod part was was easier than they made it: iTunes literally had a really simple built in function to partion all or a portion of a still fully function ipod as storage to appear as an external hard-drive
Can we keep bringing this guy? It's so INTERESTING❤
He's wrong about the microwave. CD/DVDs have a reflective layer and they only take a second or two to start burning dramatically in a crazy alligator-skin type pattern. I don't recommend you try it yourself because of the fumes, just look up videos of people doing it.
15:35 My 2008 Audi A6 has an electronic E brake that can be controlled by the car computer. When changing out the rear brakes you actually have to connect the OBD2 port and release the E brake to be able to remove the old pads.
Me in tech, but not a hacker.When I knew I was over my job, I switched out my Hard drive, imaged it and repurposed it to a user across the country months before I left. I then wiped my backup months before and let the info override what's in my accounts months in advance. So he's very right there!
I fix atms for a living. You have no idea how happy it made me to NOT hear him say PIN number.
When we replace a standard HD that has the platters and isn’t an SDD we drill 5 holes through the platters. Then ship it off to get shredded.
That's recommended as it's very difficult to reconstruct physically destroyed HDDs. I do that with all my old HDDs. PGP also used a tool back in the day that was called I believe secure trash/recycle bin and it would over write a sector 7 times with random bits in order to make it nearly impossible to reconstruct. I also learned in Java /intro to coding class how to make an ATM java file. It was soo easy. I'm like, man, if you can gain access to this private class, you have it made! Update account records, erase tracks, or make something that looks legit.
I love how this dude assumes I actually ever use my e-brake lolol
What about the other clips? I want to see them all, it's awesome!
The part in eagle eye where it’s reading the sound waves is actually really simple in concept, when I was in 8th grade for the science fair I put a crude setup together using a laser pointer, bouncing off glass into a light sensor, hooked up to a tape recorder. While it had a decent amount of static, I was 95% able to understand a conversation going on on the other side of a window.
I remember an episode of Mc Gyver (the original one) when they used that kind of device pointed to a window to record a conversation.
Lol I didn't realize Sammy was the one who created the MySpace worm, I've heard about that quite a few times :D
I like this guy! More please!
Samy is amazing to listen to, glad he got part 2
He is so good at explaining all this so well. I would love to watch him break down the games Watch Dogs.