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Director Michael Mann\u2019s cyber-thriller, Blackhat, <\/em>opened in theaters this weekend, and promised to be the most realistic portrayal of cybersecurity<\/a> to date. So, of course, I just had<\/em> to get down to my local theater and see it for myself.<\/p>\n

For those of you unfamiliar with the terminology, blackhat is a name derived from hacker slang for a person who hacks for personal gain or malicious reasons. The story focuses on former blackhat hacker, Nicholas Hathaway (played by Thor\u2019s<\/em> Chris Hemsworth), who is recruited to investigate the deadly misdeeds of a \u2018super-hacker\u2019 plaguing both the FBI and the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA).<\/p>\n

The movie itself is OK. It\u2019s not bad. It\u2019s not great. Rather, it\u2019s just the kind of action mish-mash that\u2019s punctuated by the occasional gunfight, explosion and hyper-violence so common today. And to me, therein lies the film\u2019s biggest problem: it struggles for the most part to get past the gimmick.<\/p>\n

However, Hollywood has long needed a better depiction of hacking<\/a>. Previous attempts, like cult-classic, Hackers<\/em>, paint today\u2019s largest national security concerns as the flamboyant tricks of the keyboard enacted by unrealistically eclectic personalities. This is not accurate. Nor is it the ethereal realm that Computer Man<\/a> exists in. The very fact that Blackhat<\/em> looks at hacking as a real thing with real-life consequences puts it miles ahead of Hollywood\u2019s other fantastical depictions of the cybersecurity industry.<\/p>\n

Blackhat Pros and Cons<\/h2>\n

So let\u2019s start with what Blackhat<\/em> does right: <\/strong>it both explains and gives context to cybersecurity issues with considerable accuracy. Its overall premise, that a hacker can remotely cause a nuclear power plant to explode and manipulate stock exchanges, though a bit too cartoonishly evil, is solid. These things are indeed possible, and they have real life examples (though, thankfully, without nuclear radiation).<\/p>\n

Its depiction of how hackers operate\u2014that is, re-tooling older variations of malicious software, or malware<\/a>, for other uses\u2014is also spot on. The movie gives reasonable explanations about malware programs, like Remote Admin Tools (called Remote Access Tools<\/a> in the film\u2014but we\u2019ll let that one slide) a.k.a. RATs and how they can affect Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that most everyone can understand. Even in this case, I think the producers used a RAT instead of the more likely worm<\/a> because it had more Hollywood panache. However, there is a scene where a piece of malware, most likely a RAT, is controlling a camera in a restaurant.<\/p>\n

Where the movie continues to miss the mark: <\/strong>is most glaringly in the discrepancies of how technical accuracies are implemented. For example, a single hacker causing a turbine to spin out of control and a nuclear power plant to explode tiptoes on the edge of being implausible. Destruction like that has been done (again, not on a nuclear explosion level), but it took a very specialized, likely state-sponsored malware called STUXNET<\/a> to do so. It is not something a single hacker could pull off without being detected first.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another example: our anti-hero (played by Hemsworth) needs to hack the National Security Agency (NSA) to repair a heavily damaged hard drive to find the criminal\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

He hacks the NSA through what\u2019s known as a spear phishing attack\u2014<\/a>a targeted attack through email, often containing a malicious link or file. Posing as an NSA employee, he sends a .PDF document with a keylogger<\/a> payload to another mid-level employee who has access to the fictional \u2018repair program\u2019 he requires. There are a few things that are questionable with this premise, many of which have to do with the access the NSA would hypothetically allow to what is supposedly a \u2018super-secret memory repair system.\u2019<\/p>\n

Yet, the biggest complaint that I can levy against Blackhat<\/em> by far is its depiction of time. It\u2019s disorienting. One moment you\u2019re in L.A., the next, Hong Kong, after that, Jakarta. It\u2019s hard for a viewer to get a grip on how long who is where. It neglects time as a crucial element in security. Sizeable hacks like those encountered in the film can take a long time to implement.<\/p>\n

In another example, our hero needs to hack into a bank\u2019s financial servers to do what he was ultimately sent to jail for: to steal money. He does so by using a social engineering attack<\/a>\u2014an approach that uses social networking sites, text messages and, like in the movie, physical USB keys to trick victims into giving access to a secure network\u2014on an on-duty security guard. Okay, that\u2019s reasonable. But again we run into a problem: just because you gained access to a PC stuffed under a security guard\u2019s desk does not mean you have immediate access to a bank\u2019s financial servers. In the real world, even a well-trained cyber army takes months<\/a>, even years, to map and mine a massive network. And that\u2019s before they even think of attacking. In the film, the task took but a few hours.<\/p>\n

I could go on, but by now I think you get the point: Yes, the movie is technically correct in a lot of instances\u2014especially how hacking is used more as a forensic \u2018follow the breadcrumbs\u2019 tool than a mythical do-all\u2014but it misses the mark when it comes to the process of hacking. And hacking is very much a process.<\/p>\n

In truth, hacking is boring. It\u2019s wearisome. It takes time, lots of it. Hacking is powerful, but it is not magic.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the details above, I do like Blackhat.<\/em> It raises awareness around a serious national security issue through the best medium possible, pop culture, and it does so in a responsible way. Blackhat<\/em> is a refreshing take on an industry that\u2019s easily misunderstood. And really, that\u2019s all anyone can ask.<\/p>\n

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