In modern spy fiction - tv and movies and books - people are just always tapping in to CCTV. Like every camera is always internet connected and the good guy hackers just go "click click" and they're in.
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And the quality of the video is always crystal clear hd so u can see faces, license plates. I'm not slamming it. You don't have to be realistic while telling a fun story. I am trying to balance that with my understanding of the technical impossibilities.
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[Proceeds to write scene where our heroes hack into an entire grid of cctvs then run an instant search through "all known databases" -- and it takes just a page and a quarter to do all of that]
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"He sent the money to an offshore account." Reginald clicked a couple of keys. "I'm in," he announced. "We now have access to all ofshore accounts around the world in a unified interface that allows me to search with a keyword and also cross reference everything" It was Page 2
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As a devotee of the genre, I hear ya. Don't know about you but I find the "search all databases" for facial recognition less believable than the "hack all the cameras" bit.
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An image search like that would take hours/days & throw up so many false positives. Not so much “here’s the guy” as “here are 5000 people who might be the guy.” I don’t think Oliver should dedicate a chapter to, “so I looked at a picture; it wasn’t him. Another, still not him.”
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Well.... some of them aren’t difficult to hack. It’s like any connected device, it’s all in how well it’s been secured.
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I mean, we DO all remember when One Direction fans hacked the security cameras at an Auckland airport gate just to watch them wait for a flight.
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I tried to study up on this shit before I wrote a narrative that included hacking Then I gave up and just wrote it because the reality was too complex & it derailed the story.
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Yep. Try to get too realistic it becomes a tedious bore. "Then she spent a few days coding a program that would ping IPs to see which were open CCTVs and zzzzzzzzz."
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