Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv

https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/#decrypt

by hendrikp • 14 years ago

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aaronpk2• 14 years ago

Screenshots please!

thirsteh• 14 years ago

wget https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It doesn't bite.

walrus• 14 years ago

It's also super short, so you can easily glance over the source code to make sure it's not doing anything shady (it's not).

moreati• 14 years ago

Quick and dirty screencast http://youtu.be/DoDoOtlomsM

obituary_latte4• 14 years ago

Thanks, much better than the gif.

But I'm confused...it de-scrambles what amounts to an ls -la? I gleaned from the op that it de-scrambled an image?

damncabbage• 14 years ago

Thanks to you (and your terminal output), I'm now in the middle of reading "Street-Fighting Mathematics". :)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Math...

jtwaleson3• 14 years ago

I just added this to the readme on github. Thanks!

dag114• 14 years ago

I just made an animated GIF for you: http://d.pr/i/ZMi (3MB)

obituary_latte4• 14 years ago

Hey thanks. On the page you linked to, it said "optimized for mobile" something. I have to say quite impressive--loaded very quickly. Didn't do anything after that, but I'll be damned if that first frame didn't make it down in like 2 seconds.

aaronpk2• 14 years ago

That's freaking awesome. Thanks!

9k9• 14 years ago

Does it work with a over ssh?

dag114• 14 years ago

Yes.

kbojody• 14 years ago

Maybe I don't watch enough television but I don't think I've ever seen this effect in any TV show or movie. Anyone know of a show that did this?

win32• 14 years ago

Sneakers (1992)

heretohelp2• 14 years ago

Yeah it was actually a fairly prominent part of the movie in that case.

Wingman4l7• 14 years ago

Worked slightly differently, IIRC -- in the movie, the computer screen was already full of gibberish characters, which then randomly shifted to the correct color/character when the MacGuffin was applied.

cutie3• 14 years ago

I seem to remember something similar in Wargames from the 80's.

raphman3• 14 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1aztBGnWc#t=1h38m00s

runjake• 14 years ago

Link for lazy Mac OS X users:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It's useless, but pretty nifty at 80x24.

pnathan• 14 years ago

So... uhh...

this one-liner will download and execute a python script.

would really suggest that you read the script before executing it.

allardschip2• 14 years ago

Looks clean to me. Check out for yourself of course. Does bring up an interesting dilemma. We all download code, libraries etc. all the time without going through it with a fine comb...

cutie3• 14 years ago

"It's a cylon virus... I'm decrypting the firewalls and downloading to the server."

lr--rw-rwx2• 14 years ago

and here a virus in action ...

http://pastebin.com/EZRWHKzn

;)

dag114• 14 years ago

After commenting out line 20, this is actually pretty awesome.

andypants• 14 years ago

What does it do? (The whole thing, and line 20 specifically)

Sergggg• 14 years ago

Also see Hacker Typer for a web browser version. :)

http://hackertyper.net

corin_• 14 years ago

A web browser version of something different.

exogen• 14 years ago

Using aircrack-ng to get onto a wifi network looks surprisingly like you'd expect from a movie: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/screenshots/aircrack-ng.gif (pretend those digits are constantly updating)

robertskmiles• 14 years ago

Fun with jp2a and the images from the Curiosity rover. You can act like you're intercepting the signal or something.

DigitalSea• 14 years ago

This is quite possibly one of the coolest Python scripts I have ever seen. I'm going all the way to Hollywood baby.

Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv

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