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
