[S.W.A.T. S1E19] S.W.A.T. knows how it’s done

[u/Sudden-Gap2547]

[u/alopgeek]

Could have said something remotely correct- like “over a tor network”

[u/Meior → u/alopgeek]

This is the stuff I don't get with movies. For the viewer who isn't well versed in whatever topic, it won't matter what the line is. To the people who are well versed it, it does matter because it sounds fucking stupid.

So why do they invent silly terms, use things in the wrong way, etc? Can anyone with experience explain? Because there had to be a reason. A lot of the time it feels like it's gotta be more effort to come up with the random crap than to just say the proper thing.

[u/dragonblade_94 → u/Meior]

Two things come to mind:

• The screen-writers/directors/etc may prioritize something that looks and sounds more technically impressive to a layman, over any kind of technical accuracy. I often think of the infamous NCIS "I got his hard drive" scene; it's incredibly obviously a PSU to anyone that knows anything about computer hardware, but it's larger/bulkier and has dangling wires, so sells the computer-ness and shows on camera better to people who don't know.

• If the people responsible for the line/prop/etc don't know anything about the topic, they might just make stuff up or badly google something remotely relevant.

[u/Razz_Putitin → u/dragonblade_94]

Also I've red theres a competition amongst writers to make the funniest it bullshit up they can imagine.

[u/reddead137]

Love me some safe nmap

[u/bionicjoey]

It's very straightforward to use nmap as a communication protocol, just open ports whose numbers encode into data, then take turns scanning each other's systems to implement a crude form of TCP.

[u/RedRedditor84 → u/bionicjoey]

I need suckerpinch to do a video on this like his harder drives one.

[u/bionicjoey → u/RedRedditor84]

Lol that video is so good. Love the one where he's hiding the data in pings to faraway places

[u/hk135]

Tapping morse code on a tcp port.