Hacking the Matrix

[meloncholy]

Originally posted here by phishphreek80
As soon as I saw that scene... a big smile came across my face.

It took me 10min to explain to my GF that she had exploited a hole in SSHnuke on the machine and that is how she gained access. I then showed her how it was done on my LAN when we got home.

You went home and exploited the hole in SSHnuke? Thats very interesting. Please explain to me and the other AO readers what this exploit is. In fact, talk a bit more about SSHnuke please. (sarcastic tone)

On another note, yeah, NMAP was used in the movie. Wow, was I blown away (that was also sarcastic). C'mon, what year is the movie supposed to be set in? 500-600 years from now NMAP will still be the port scanner of choice? Hmm. I guess if thats what excites you...to each his own.

[Delta4ce]

ya, the game will allow u to use dos commands to "hack the matrix" but it is limited, but i haven't seen the movie yet, everytime i go to regal cinemas in peoples plaza (u know where phish) its always sold out, but i'll use fandango now i guess, i think there is like a surcharge of about 1.75$ i am not sure, but anywayz thats for the info phish, pz.

[ts.flatline]

Meloncholy, it wasnt 500-600 years from now, the matrix was actually around 2000-2001 since in the first one it was stated that the year was 1999 in the matrix, not the real world so it would work out better and so forth.

[meloncholy]

Hmm. I thought the story line was something like terminator where machines in the future had taken over the world. I thought that life in the "matrix" was based on 1999 becuase that was the most desirable or suitable time in human history, but reality was really in the distant future.

Its all fuzzy now. Now I have to watch it again!!

[n0t 1337]

Interesting that fandango uses Red Hat.
The ABOs at the AMC movie theatres use a version of windows CE (that appears to be realated to the HPC windows CE).

[PhirePhreak]

Originally posted here by ts.flatline
Meloncholy, it wasnt 500-600 years from now, the matrix was actually around 2000-2001 since in the first one it was stated that the year was 1999 in the matrix, not the real world so it would work out better and so forth.

I might possibly be wrong on this as I've not yet become as obsessed with Reloaded as I was with the first one (watching it every day or two for the past few years...) After watching the first Matrix, it was clear to me that "You believe it is the year 1999. While in fact, it is closer to 2199." So, the first Matrix was set 200 years in the future.

But in Reloaded, at the end, the Architect states that the currently-operating Matrix is the sixth version... there have been five other previous ones. He also alludes to Zion having been destroyed five times in the past. There have been five other "the One"s. And every time, Zion is re-populated by the same number of people (9 men and 7 women, wasn't it?). Judging from the age of some of the older guys in Zion, they've been around for quite some time, easily 70 or 80 years.

Assuming that Zion is allowed to thrive for the same period of time before being destroyed in each subsequent version of the Matrix (it IS run by exacting machines, after all), 6 (five previous versions plus the current) * 75 = 450. So, my guess is that the current version of the Matrix is about 450 years ahead of the time the machines first took over. Morpheus states in the first movie that the year inside the Matrix was set to be 1999. However, he also says, "I can't say for certain what year it is because we honestly do not know." He then says that from the bits and pieces of evidence, blah blah blah, "Sometime at the beginning of the twenty-first century, mankind was united in celebration at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI . . . a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines..." So, anyhoo, my thought is that the current Matrix is around 450 years from perhaps this decade, so years 2450-2460. I could easily be wrong, since I'm not as much of an "expert" on Reloaded as I am on The Matrix.

Perhaps my thoughts will spread some light on the subject. If not, it gave me something to do while sitting through this boring Business Law class. Bleh.

--PhirePhreak

[phishphreek]

You went home and exploited the hole in SSHnuke? Thats very interesting. Please explain to me and the other AO readers what this exploit is. In fact, talk a bit more about SSHnuke please. (sarcastic tone)

meloncholy:
I showed her an example of how people footprint, enumerate and attack a machine using my own boxes. Actaully... she was really quite bored with it all....

Sorry, I should have I worded it better... I was just rambling when I posted that.

sshnuke looks to me like it was an exploit that exploits ssh1... view the screenshots here . Right now its on the front page... but here is the link to the single image I was talking bout.

My bad.

[Euclid]

Originally posted here by PhirePhreak


I might possibly be wrong on this as I've not yet become as obsessed with Reloaded as I was with the first one (watching it every day or two for the past few years...) After watching the first Matrix, it was clear to me that "You believe it is the year 1999. While in fact, it is closer to 2199." So, the first Matrix was set 200 years in the future.


--PhirePhreak

Im pretty sure that the matrix takes place in the 2000's the height of human civilization whereas real time out of the matrix is 2199..


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Anyways... Was that guy they showed at the end cypher?

[Shakira]

Did you guys stay until the end of the credits to see the trailer of Matrix Revolutions?

[\/IP3R]

Anyone want to see the clip.. here is the link

Hey meloncholy may be we will have advanced version of Nmap after 600 years later which will look exactly like this.[/SARCASM]

Chill out man.... Phishphreek is just explaining how he felt. You don't have to bite his head off.