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Feb 19, 2021 59 min

21. Look at you, hacker!

from Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO Hosted by DJ Daemon

Hackers are mythical creatures that just get in everywhere. Hacking is alas used as ersatz magic in many games and Hollywood movies. DJ Daemon tires of this and tries to find some games and movies that does this in a reasonly correct way. He uses a very generous definition of “correct”. But the suspence of disbelief is a strong force of nature. So let's just accept this as a proper hacker story. Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flashback 21 – Show intro 00:54 Reptile – Peaceful journey 04:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – About todays show 05:46 KB and Reflex – Beyond The Gates 09:43 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Hacker (C64, 1986) 11:38 Amiga – Charism of dark 15:12 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Uplink (PC, 2001) 17:17 Linus Hagne – Uplink 21:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – Xerxes – the Windows ME of AIs 23:46 Drax – Zarathustra 27:10 Amiga Flashback 21 – Paradroid (C64) and Paradroid 1990 (Amiga) 29:15 Lizardking – Hackerrence mania 33:41 DJ Daemon talks about Hollywood movies showing hacking in a realistic way 34:25 Keo – Hacking on heavens door 37:22 DJ Daemon wonders about the last song 37:43 Baal of manitou – Songs of a dragon 43:52 DJ Daemons talks about the movie WarGames 45:00 The Soul Stealer – Hacker's Dream 49:30 DJ Daemon doesn't like Matrix Revolutions, but respects its use of NMap. 50:08 Xemogasa / ske – Sapphire eyes 53:36 DJ Daemon grapples with penny shaving (who's Penny anyway?) and salami slicing. Sounds awful but it's actually about money fraud. It feels better now. 54:14 Nighthawk / pfs – Do the monkey! 57:27 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and signs off 57:50 Singer/altair+grns+mnt – Seen an angel Production notes: I put some effort into writing the dialogue for this episode as I felt the prewritten episodes were more enjoyable as I could control how long I spoke and avoid "word searching" and mistakes. It was also one of the first episodes to feature speech from the games themselves. Colophone: "Look at you, hacker" is the first line from Shodan's infamous speech "Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?". That speech is even in the intro of the show. When I review the hacking tropes I use names of real hackers and hacker groups. Like "I give it 9 out of 10 Fancy bears". Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2021, Retro gaming

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Hackers are mythical creatures that just get in everywhere. Hacking is alas used as ersatz magic in many games and Hollywood movies. DJ Daemon tires of this and tries to find some games and movies that does this in a reasonly correct way. He uses a very generous definition of “correct”. But the suspence of disbelief is a strong force of nature. So let's just accept this as a proper hacker story.

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21. Look at you, hacker!

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  1. 0:00 Amiga Flashback 21 – Show intro
  2. 0:54 Reptile – Peaceful journey
  3. 4:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – About todays show
  4. 5:46 KB and Reflex – Beyond The Gates
  5. 9:43 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Hacker (C64, 1986)
  6. 11:38 Amiga – Charism of dark
  7. 15:12 Amiga Flashback 21 – Game – Uplink (PC, 2001)
  8. 17:17 Linus Hagne – Uplink
  9. 21:46 Amiga Flashback 21 – Xerxes – the Windows ME of AIs
  10. 23:46 Drax – Zarathustra
  11. 27:10 Amiga Flashback 21 – Paradroid (C64) and Paradroid 1990 (Amiga)
  12. 29:15 Lizardking – Hackerrence mania
  13. 33:41 DJ Daemon talks about Hollywood movies showing hacking in a realistic way
  14. 34:25 Keo – Hacking on heavens door
  15. 37:22 DJ Daemon wonders about the last song
  16. 37:43 Baal of manitou – Songs of a dragon
  17. 43:52 DJ Daemons talks about the movie WarGames
  18. 45:00 The Soul Stealer – Hacker's Dream
  19. 49:30 DJ Daemon doesn't like Matrix Revolutions, but respects its use of NMap.
  20. 50:08 Xemogasa / ske – Sapphire eyes
  21. 53:36 DJ Daemon grapples with penny shaving (who's Penny anyway?) and salami slicing. Sounds awful but it's actually about money fraud. It feels better now.
  22. 54:14 Nighthawk / pfs – Do the monkey!
  23. 57:27 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and signs off
  24. 57:50 Singer/altair+grns+mnt – Seen an angel

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