Source Code in TV and Films

I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object) 81987)

atari basic source code. This is from my blog: https://manillismo.blogspot.com/2022/07/ifo-identified-flying-object-ovi-objeto.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298093/

Didn’t know if this blog was still a thing, but here it is! 🥳

Can you see any of these code blocks clearly enough to see what they are?

https://imgur.com/a/AomnUjl

I captures these frames from this set of (amazing) opening titles for Big Brother UK, if you want to take a closer look: https://vimeo.com/292127899 

John says: “This is pretty funny. The code is from the Linux kernel groups.c file which is used on the Hacker Typer website where you can pretend to be a cool programmer by typing ridiculously fast: https://hackertyper.com/”

UK tv series called COBRA: Cyberwar staring Robert Carlyle - I was shocked to see this snippet of code which they used as the “virus” that had taken down the entire UK - I recognised it as the spotify client for Linux! 

John says: “I don’t think this is the Linux Spotify client code, I’m pretty sure that it’s the Linux kernel groups.c (https://github.com/spotify/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups.c) which is also the code from Hacker Typer: https://hackertyper.com/”

NeXt (2020 series)

I know I already shared something from this show but this one’s a doozie

NeXt S1E1 https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/video/c9912951-a749-4913-b176-04f1abae655b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2020_TV_series)

“The code looks like an Apache variant; but it’s the library stack that has me worried”

Source code seems to be Python Tensorflow, but searching for the exact code yielded no real world results, however snippets were found randomly across various example codebases on Github, which may suggest that the code itself was generated by AI.

Eg. “# Check that there is no :1 (e.g. it’s single output).” is found here https://gist.github.com/sseveran/e27045c5fdb2d2f836ca63e13755665f but is incredibly out of context in the screenshot.

File names appear somewhat nonsensical too (save_ml_graph_info.config.py) and the files in the left sidebar seem to be a subtree of Tensorflow 1.8’s codebase written in C++ (which you would be very unlikely to be looking at whilst developing actual TF code in python…) https://hhhhhojeihsu.github.io/tensorflow_1.8_woboq/tensorflow_1.8_aot_test/tensorflow/tensorflow/core/framework/

Code on the right appears to be taken straight from a Tensorflow tutorial: https://programtalk.com/vs4/python/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Serverless-Deep-Learning-with-TensorFlow-and-AWS-Lambda/Chapter04/lesson4.3/Lambdapack/tensorflow/python/training/sync_replicas_optimizer.py/

Apparently in the show the AI is writing itself. I find it kinda cute that it’s following an online tutorial to do so.

Osmosis S1E2, nanobot programming contains … Singleton pattern implementation in #Python

TV Series : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7043380/

I just wrote this up: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeenWolf/comments/sox4uy/believable_technobabble_in_season_4/

From Upgrade (2018), python code with messed up indentation

From “The Silent Sea”, Season 1, Episode 7, “Luna”. A quick search for a few lines of code directed me to an “Algol W” code generator example on https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Compiler/code_generator !

Screenshot from The Boys, Season 3, Episode 8 showing part of the source code of Stuxnet.

https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/output/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905.c#L864

Lines 864 to 876.  (Same source file as used in the Departure Season 2, Episode 1)

Nothing funny here.  It’s just a partial snippet of code in the background on the monitor the character was using to look at the surveillance feeds.

Screenshot from the Departure season 2 episode 1 showing part of the source code of Stuxnet.
https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/output/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905/37FC7C5D89F1E5A96F54318DF1A2B905.c#L1246
Line 1246 to 1280

A screenshot from the recent UK broadcast of the “Why We Hate” episode titled “Tribalism” on Discovery Channel.

Source code is from (or heavily based on) kubernetes code-generator at https://github.com/kubernetes/code-generator.

Futurama Season 1 Episode 9 Basic code to go hell.

Check it out: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1256521098578980864

American Gods Season 2 

In Czech movie Vysoká hra there is “high-end" police wiretapping user interface used for tracking criminals, with lots of text outputs and animated graphs. In fact, the text output is html tutorial from http://polopate.jakpsatweb.cz/index.php?page=include4 and http://polopate.jakpsatweb.cz/index.php?page=uprava

Moreover, in the middle of the screen, there are some keyboard shortcuts with descriptions taken from mapy.cz API - https://api.mapy.cz/doc-simple/SMap.Coords.html

From WWE’s Money In The Bank PPV - the “Smackdown hacker” once again using groups.c from from the Linux kernel - I’m starting to think groups.C is an in-joke among VFX guys similar to the Wilhelm scream.

From Guns Akimbo (2019), some generic ffmpeg wrapper Go code, modified to include mention of in-movie “Skizm” criminal group (presumably, to illustrate a malware payload for obtaining video streams).

In the Movie “Das letzte Land” (D 2019, Dir.: Marcel Barion) a computer monitor shows a Pascal source code for (probably) a infix-to-rpn converting routine. The “Making of” shows parts of that code more clearly.