How Much Data Does A 2 Hour Movie Use

Hollywood loves information center cameos. In many characteristic films, a guy sneaks into the server room and places a diabolical gadget next to a server. Usually, he grabs a random patch cablevision, connects it directly into his laptop and fires off a slice of malware.

Most of the time, these scenes build tension. But for these 5 movies, they but look comical.

Paranoia (2013)

Gaffe: A character sneaks into a data eye to steal secrets.

Liam Hemsworth isn't the but fatal flaw in this low-rated tech thriller. There are several suspect scenes involving biometrics, such as "lifting" a fingerprint image from an iPad that was scanned from a spoon. Then the protagonist (Hemsworth'south Adam Cassidy) flashes a few images from his telephone to proceeds entry into a secret room; that seems unlikely. He fifty-fifty pushes a button on his scout to close down power in the edifice; someone even yells "Go our Information technology guy on the line!" in a panic. At least the servers in the data center look somewhat realistic — and easy to access from one main aisle.

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Entrapment (1999)

Gaffe: The chief characters start plugging into network ports to download funds.

Well-nigh the end of this Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones heist thriller, the main characters sneak into the server room/vault and suspension open a cabinet. They quickly use patch cables to reroute traffic for a stock exchange without having to bargain with whatever encryption. The Zeta-Jones graphic symbol, Virginia Bakery, pulls what looks similar an Ethernet cable from her laptop and, of a sudden, sets off an alert. If anything, it's when you hack into something that you trigger an warning.

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Ocean's 11 (2001)

Gaffe: A henchman plugs in one cablevision to get the video feed of an entire casino.

Hither'due south 1 of the archetype information center cameos from the past decade. One of the criminals in the picture (Livingston Dell, played by Eddie Jemison) sneaks into a casino data middle. He clips a device to an Ethernet cable, which magically provides admission — major spoiler alert here — to a video stream of casino security cameras. Never mind the fact that the intruder has to write directions on his hand to find the server room and, every bit a outcome, seems unlikely to find the right server chiffonier and cable. Even if you lot could re-route the video that easily, the signal would still accept encryption to cake outside admission.

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Tron: Legacy (2010)

Gaffe: The information center has no hot aisles, and the protagonist plugs directly into a server.

One affair'southward for sure about this data center cameo: Information technology sure looks futuristic. The main issue: You'd think the programming geniuses who created the virtual world would know almost hot aisles and cold aisles, just instead each server is spaced evenly apart like checkerboard pieces. That, of course, which would brand it difficult to connect them. Plus, the main character (Sam Flynn, played by Garrett Hedlund) jacks into a server using what looks similar a futuristic Nokia phone. You'd recollect he'd at to the lowest degree be using an iPhone.

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Hackers (1995)

Gaffe: The data centre servers are clear gleaming blueish boxes with lasers.

You might have a addicted memory of watching Hackers back in the 90s, but the scenes showing a high-tech data eye are laughably unrealistic. The servers look like something out of Tron: Gleaming bluish pillars fabricated of drinking glass rows of text, cheesy sound furnishings and lasers. In reality, even the most high-tech data centers are purposefully designed to be bland: The goal is to make certain the data is secure, handled efficiently and easily accessible.

The writer would similar to thank the Sony Entertainment Network for assisting with his research.

John Brandon is a former IT manager at a Fortune 100 visitor who at present writes virtually engineering science. He has written more than 2,500 articles in the past 10 years. You tin follow him on Twitter @jmbrandonbb. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.