Programming in Media

The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous

Alex Riviere (He/Him)

Web Dev Unicorn

@fimion@notacult.social

Sources

The Ridiculous

Elite Hackerz

The Bad

Amazon, You literally have developers on staff

Watching #UploadOnPrime and it’s 2033 and they are in a file called http://test.py editing HTML with an IE9 hack, the doctype starts at line 664 and the other fellow (apparently with a Twitch green screen) says the whitespace on line 692 is an error. Hollywood, hire me.

- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

"Oops, how did that get in there?"

Source: Movie Code

Doctor Who (S7 E2)

"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"

(Those missiles are controlled by WHAT??)

Source: Movie Code

Star Trek: Discovery

S01 E03

Source: Movie Code

Source: Movie Code

// DWORD __stdcall GetFileAttributesW(LPCWSTR lpFileName);
// HANDLE __stdcall CreateFileW(LPCWSTR lpFileName, DWORD dwDesiredAccess, DWORD dwShareMode, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes, DWORD dwCreationDisposition, DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes, HANDLE hTemplateFile);
// int __stdcall lstrlenW(LPCWSTR lpString);
// FARPROC __stdcall GetProcAddress(HMODULE hModule, LPCSTR lpProcName);
// BOOL __stdcall CloseHandle(HANDLE hObject);
// BOOL __stdcall DeleteFileW(LPCWSTR lpFileName);
// LPWSTR __stdcall lstrcpyW(LPWSTR lpString1, LPCWSTR lpString2);
// BOOL __stdcall SetFileAttributesW(LPCWSTR lpFileName, DWORD dwFileAttributes);
// HANDLE __stdcall GetCurrentProcess();
// void __stdcall SetLastError(DWORD dwErrCode);
// int __stdcall lstrcmpiW(LPCWSTR lpString1, LPCWSTR lpString2);
// DWORD __stdcall GetCurrentThreadId();
// DWORD __stdcall GetCurrentProcessId();
// int __stdcall lstrcmpA(LPCSTR lpString1, LPCSTR lpString2);
// BOOL __stdcall IsBadReadPtr(const void *lp, UINT_PTR ucb);
// DWORD __stdcall GetModuleFileNameW(HMODULE hModule, LPWCH lpFilename, DWORD nSize);
// int __stdcall lstrcmpiA(LPCSTR lpString1, LPCSTR lpString2);
// HMODULE __stdcall GetModuleHandleA(LPCSTR lpModuleName);
// BOOL __stdcall VirtualProtect(LPVOID lpAddress, SIZE_T dwSize, DWORD flNewProtect, PDWORD lpflOldProtect);
// LPWSTR __stdcall lstrcatW(LPWSTR lpString1, LPCWSTR lpString2);
// BOOL __stdcall VirtualFree(LPVOID lpAddress, SIZE_T dwSize, DWORD dwFreeType);
// LPWSTR __stdcall lstrcpynW(LPWSTR lpString1, LPCWSTR lpString2, int iMaxLength);
// BOOL __stdcall ReadFile(HANDLE hFile, LPVOID lpBuffer, DWORD nNumberOfBytesToRead, LPDWORD lpNumberOfBytesRead, LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped);
// LPVOID __stdcall VirtualAlloc(LPVOID lpAddress, SIZE_T dwSize, DWORD flAllocationType, DWORD flProtect);
// HANDLE __stdcall CreateMutexW(LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpMutexAttributes, BOOL bInitialOwner, LPCWSTR lpName);
// UINT __stdcall SetErrorMode(UINT uMode);

Source: Stuxnet Decompiled code