Did he type the furiously on to the keyboard? No? Then it's not hacking.
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For those who want a more convincing but still low-effort variant of this, use... https://hackertyper.net/
Press F11 in your browser to run it in fullscreen.
The Hollywood command is effortless and runs on terminal
I guess you could add some sleep(1) inbetween
This is Python. It's already show enough.
That's not python
It's valid Python code though, the semicolons will run but are unnecessary
I am so perplexed and horrified. I'm going to need several weeks to get over this. What is this?!
A way to have several statements on the same line?
It seems I had semicolons confused with braces:
if picture is broken, it's this:
~ $ python -c "from __future__ import braces"
File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
Needs to be a sleep(3) and sleep(5) between the last ones just to add suspense
sleep $(( 1 + $RANDOM % 5 ))
You know hackers in the movies are very polite and care for their user. When they are hacking or wiping the disk they show proper progress. That is much better user experience than many corporate products. Be like hackers in the movie.
Ransomware has better tech support and customer service than your cell phone provider or ISP.
The hacking in Mr Robot looked more authentic, I really liked it. But they usually just executed some random scripts without printouts lol.
what HP printers really do
In Soviet Russia, print() statement runs on printer.
I've been hacking the world this whole time!
not even a loop.
import sys
import time
from typing import Iterable, Callable, Any
class ProgressSimulator:
"""
A class to simulate and display the progression of a hacking process,
with unnecessary abstraction and complexity for dramatic effect.
"""
def __init__(self, description: str = "FBI"):
self.description = description
self.progress_steps = [0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100]
self.messages = [
f"Starting Hack...",
*[f"Hacking {self.description} {step}%" for step in self.progress_steps],
f"{self.description} Hacked Successfully"
]
def generate_progress(self) -> Iterable[str]:
"""Generates the progress messages."""
for message in self.messages:
yield message
def display_progress(self, delay: float = 0.5) -> None:
"""Displays the progress messages with a delay."""
for message in self.generate_progress():
print(message)
time.sleep(delay)
def execute_hack(self, callback: Callable[[str], Any] = print) -> None:
"""Executes the hacking process with a callback for each step."""
for message in self.generate_progress():
callback(message)
def create_hacking_sequence(description: str = "FBI") -> ProgressSimulator:
"""Factory function to create a hacking sequence."""
return ProgressSimulator(description)
def main() -> None:
"""Main function to orchestrate the hacking simulation."""
hacking_sequence = create_hacking_sequence()
hacking_sequence.display_progress()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
I can do this in C in three lines.
Enterprise grade 👌