Re: Firewall the movie

On 12/21/05, Greg Merideth (Forward Technology) wrote:
> > dave kleiman wrote:
> > Firewall the movie!!
> > http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/
>
> If this is real (and it sure looks it)

It's for real:     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345/


> then here we go again with another round of end user induced hysteria
> over what people can and cannot do by shift-clicking the pi symbol
> and people who can decode RSA keys by looking at them.

I'd be impressed to see ANY media depict a "Computer Security Specialist"
(even one played by Harrison Ford) who *hasn't* built himself a slew of
backdoors to bypass the controls he is responsible for maintaining,
even if if does mean the movie ends with the whole Stanfield family
getting slaughtered because poor Jack Stanfield, firewall admin,
wasn't able to get Bill Cox his hundred mil, failed to bypass the security
he himself (or more realistically his PFY minions) implemented.

If it wasn't for that damn PCI compliance, Beth, Sarah and little Andy
wouldn't have had to die.

Kevin