Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are. See https://behind-the-screens.tv for video versions of some.
I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object) 81987) atari basic source code. This is from my blog: https://manillismo.blogspot.com/2022/07/ifo-identified-flying-object-ovi-objeto.html https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298093/
Didn’t know if this blog was still a thing, but here it is! 🥳 Can you see any of these code blocks clearly enough to see what they are? https://imgur.com/a/AomnUjl I captures these frames from this set of (amazing) opening titles for Big Brother UK, if you want to take a closer look: https://vimeo.com/292127899 John says: “This is pretty funny. The code is from the Linux kernel groups.c file…
UK tv series called COBRA: Cyberwar staring Robert Carlyle - I was shocked to see this snippet of code which they used as the “virus” that had taken down the entire UK - I recognised it as the spotify client for Linux! John says: “I don’t think this is the Linux Spotify client code, I’m pretty sure that it’s the Linux kernel groups.c ( https://github.com/spotify/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups.c )…
NeXt (2020 series) I know I already shared something from this show but this one’s a doozie
NeXt S1E1 https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/video/c9912951-a749-4913-b176-04f1abae655b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_ (2020_TV_series) “The code looks like an Apache variant; but it’s the library stack that has me worried” Source code seems to be Python Tensorflow, but searching for the exact code yielded no real world results, however snippets were found randomly across various example…
Osmosis S1E2, nanobot programming contains … Singleton pattern implementation in #Python TV Series : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7043380/
I just wrote this up: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeenWolf/comments/sox4uy/believable_technobabble_in_season_4/
From Upgrade (2018), python code with messed up indentation
From “The Silent Sea”, Season 1, Episode 7, “Luna”. A quick search for a few lines of code directed me to an “Algol W” code generator example on https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Compiler/code_generator !
Screenshot from The Boys, Season 3, Episode 8 showing part of the source code of Stuxnet. https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/output/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905.c#L864 Lines 864 to 876. (Same source file as used in the Departure Season 2, Episode 1) Nothing funny here. It’s just a partial snippet of code in the background on the monitor the…
Salvation E13S1 some code described as a never seen encryption level (or something like that) is just a piece of stuxnet2 code TV Series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7270746/?ref_=ttep_ep13 Code: https://github.com/throwaway2266/stuxnet2.0/blob/master/sub2 Twitter post: https://twitter.com/bit_man/status/1567839124161167362
Screenshot from the Departure season 2 episode 1 showing part of the source code of Stuxnet. https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/output/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905.c#L1246 Line 1246 to 1280
A screenshot from the recent UK broadcast of the “Why We Hate” episode titled “Tribalism” on Discovery Channel. Source code is from (or heavily based on) kubernetes code-generator at https://github.com/kubernetes/code-generator.
Futurama Season 1 Episode 9 Basic code to go hell.
Watching #UploadOnPrime and it’s 2033 and they are in a file called http://test.py editing HTML with an IE9 hack, the doctype starts at line 664 and the other fellow (apparently with a Twitch green screen) says the whitespace on line 692 is an error. Hollywood, hire me. Check it out: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1256521098578980864
American Gods Season 2
In Czech movie Vysoká hra there is “high-end" police wiretapping user interface used for tracking criminals, with lots of text outputs and animated graphs. In fact, the text output is html tutorial from http://polopate.jakpsatweb.cz/index.php?page=include4 and http://polopate.jakpsatweb.cz/index.php?page=uprava Moreover, in the middle of the screen, there are some keyboard shortcuts with…
From WWE’s Money In The Bank PPV - the “Smackdown hacker” once again using groups.c from from the Linux kernel - I’m starting to think groups.C is an in-joke among VFX guys similar to the Wilhelm scream.
From Guns Akimbo (2019), some generic ffmpeg wrapper Go code, modified to include mention of in-movie “Skizm” criminal group (presumably, to illustrate a malware payload for obtaining video streams).
In the Movie “Das letzte Land” (D 2019, Dir.: Marcel Barion) a computer monitor shows a Pascal source code for (probably) a infix-to-rpn converting routine. The “Making of” shows parts of that code more clearly.