Hacker scenes are common in many Hollywood movies, and one of the most memorable is undoubtedly the scene we enjoyed in the legendary ‘Jurassic Park’. Just the famous scene of the heroine and “It’s a UNIX system… I know!” not but also another attended by the park’s chief programmer, Dennis Nedry. (Played by Wayne Knight). Now we know what the source code appearing on the screen does.

In this scene, he is executing the code of the malware called “Whte_rbt.obj”. The name of the file, ‘White Rabbit’, is a reference to ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Nedry, an anagram of the words “nerd”, “cow”, used this code to disable the park’s security and thus steal valuables. dinosaur embryos.

This is how Jurassic Park was hacked. Image: Universal.

This code appeared part of the scene, and years ago several developers devoted themselves to analyzing it in a discussion on Stack Exchange. For starters, The computer used in that scene is a Macintosh Quadra 700.It was released in 1991, two years before the film was released. The computer ran a version of the Classic Mac OS operating system that preceded modern versions of Mac OS X that appeared in 2001.

When the camera zooms in on the screen, three different text windows appear with an IDE well-known among Mac veterans: it was the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop. It is easy to identify because its then-known abbreviation, MPW, appears in the title bar of the window in the upper left corner.

Programmers responding to this discussion on Stack Exchange They defined the code as Object Pascal, a variant of the legendary Pascal language. The right window displays an MPW Shell script, which is based on the Unix csh shell language and is exactly what is used in the Apple development environment.

Finally, in the bottom window you can see another script, also known and related to converting images to Apple’s PICT format. Both this code and the code for the other two windows This is general codeand the movie’s producers didn’t even make an effort to create a code that looked like it was about controlling an amusement park.

In fact, as they point out in the discussion, it’s hard to believe that this machine could be used for code development in an environment like the one shown in the movie. IRIX-powered Silicon Graphics workstations shown in other scenes also ideally used code programmed with the same workstations.

There is another curiosity in this scene that was also discussed in the Stack Exchange forums a few years ago. It’s a particularly important detail now, because on one of Nerdy’s monitors is a photo of the famous physicist and “father of the atomic bomb.” J. Robert Oppenheimerplus two post-it notes.

One had a nuclear explosion scrawl, and the other had the message “Gulf Explosion Begins” because the “Baby Boomers” generation was said to correspond to the year the atomic bomb was dropped. The discovery of such a thing is striking, considering that “Oppenheimer” is a strong contender for victory at the upcoming Oscars.

Image | Universal Pictures

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