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If it's a computer, or has a digital connection it's vulnerable to hackers. No further questions. A Cracker or Playful Hacker can cause unlimited harm/mischief in fiction because any computer, or any device with a CPU as a component — or even with a few strands of copper wire in it — is connected to the Internet and thus becomes easily accessible and subvertible to the character's hacking skill. Everything from NORAD to traffic lights to the engine computer in your SUV can be tampered with and shut down from a laptop in a room thousands of miles away. This openly defies the fact that in neither case are said computers and devices actually online in a way that is reachable by someone on a modem. Here, everything is online. There are no closed systems that aren't connected to the internet at large, and any machine can be plugged into or have its electronics easily screwed with from afar. All you need is a wireless connection and some illegal hacking programs - and voila, you're in. This being said, writers were probably just getting a bit ahead of themselves, as this Cyberpunk trope is increasingly becoming Truth in Television. As ubiquitous Internet connectivity becomes essential for almost any electronic gadget or device, everything from cars note which are now being marketed at the Consumer Electronics Expo to military networks will become increasingly hackable via the Internet. Even without an explicit internet connection, many devices have varying types of wireless functionality, which to a skilled adversary are as good as an Internet connection. One would assume that any security-sensitive computer system would avoid being connected to anything. It is so, and there do exist a number of regional and even global networks that are completely separate from the Internet and are often built with different technologies. Yet, every such barrier means tons of wasted work time (which equals wasted money for the company) for users and sysadmins alike, and it costs an obscene amount of money to build and maintain such networks for only a few parties to use. Very few organizations have the resources or the will to construct their own air-gap networks, so all the traffic flows over the public Internet or telecommunications networks protected by VPNs and firewalls. Same goes for different technologies: every piece of software logic ever created for TCP/IP, WWW, or any of the many related protocols and standards need to be reimplemented if one needs it for a service built on a different technology, making the latter severely lack in features in comparison. Then, as the technologies behind the Internet pass the test of time, scrutiny and the resulting security fixes over the years — having had far more exposure to threats than any in-house tech ever could — physically separating communication channels for a system to stay secure becomes less and less of a requirement. Finally, even if a private network is air-gapped properly, this is still not a complete guarantee of security, as famously demonstrated by Stuxnet, which is thought to have spread to Iranian nuclear facilities through USB drives. Even supposedly closed-access systems aren't, as demonstrated by Chinese hackers stealing fighter jet plans from the US government. So nowadays, even control units for critical infrastructure only come with an RJ-45 connector and a hard-coded ability to speak IP. Still, there remain some gross exaggerations like the ability to erase a person's existence by deleting his identity records. In Hollywood reality, physical records like paper birth certificates and driver licenses are always null and void if the computers can't find a digital copy. This trope is usually how an Evil Computer manages to subjugate humanity: By shutting down or reprogramming everything electrical in the world, from nuclear missiles to street cameras to light bulbs. This trope is also part of the Internet Safety Aesop since people can learn how much a hacker can access online. Of course in a series set in the Present Day (or just twenty minutes from now) it might make sense to assume that most things have a connection of some kind, despite that no matter how networked the world gets, there will always be systems kept offline for security reasons. Compare: It's A Small Net After All, Plug 'n' Play Technology. The Other Wiki calls the real-life version of this the "Internet of Things" (no, not the Internet of Stuff). |
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Subverted in the season 2 finale of Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall". Moriarty disables security at three major locations in London... using a phone app. According to him, all that is nothing more than a sales pitch to the highest bidder for said app — or rather, the code for the app. He even mentions casually hacking into any nuclear missile silo he chooses. However, this ends up being an elaborate bluff, as the app in question is simply something that sends a text to security people at the locations he 'breaks into', who have already been paid off. The "code" was a trick for the benefit of the Holmes brothers, and it works. Both Sherlock and Mycroft are convinced it's real. Moriarty was amused in Mycroft's case, but very disappointed that Sherlock also fell for it. | |
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In The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, Rob temporarily loses his thesis due to a virus being spread by a sick old computer. He was using it to call for help and ends up helping him get it back in the end. | |
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey takes place in a future in which, indeed, pretty much everything is online. The mysterious network failures known as "The Static" have even resulted in fatal car accidents, and, indeed, one the things you get to hack during the game is a car. It's specifically stated that it's illegal to own and operate a device that averts this trope, or even use a cell phone that lacks the government monitoring software. It's stated that the reason for that is to avoid another Collapse (which had nothing to do with that anyway). | |
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Ghost in the Shell: First Assault Online seems to use this as part of its premise. Every character in the game uses a full cyberbody, including flesh-and-blood Togusa. The matches start off with you initiating a net dive, you wait for the maps to load up, guns that are dropped on the ground have a digital field over them, and body parts digitally appear and disappear. Chief Aramaki occasionally makes mention of the network being too tough to secure when you lose, and the Tachikoma always says "Beginning Cyberbrain Protocol" when it is summoned onto the map. Everything seems to indicate that all the fighting takes place online, which isn't out of the question for this series. | |
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Age of Ultron: Played for horror in the Avengers Assemble tie-in issue; Starktech artificial limbs are connected to the Wifi, so when Ultron starts the end of the world, this includes hijacking people via prosthetic limbs, which is how Black Widow ends up losing an eye. | |
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In the second season of Homeland, the terrorists remotely access Vice President Walden's pacemaker and set it to a defibrillate test mode in order to give him a heart attack. While many medical devices utilize NFC to allow reprogramming and even charging through the skin, there's no way to access them from more than a few inches away. |
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Digimon absolutely loves this trope. Apparently, the Digital World and Digimon can affect not merely computers and phone lines in the real world, but everything from microwaves to traffic lights to an entire house's electrical setup. This is because the Digital World isn't simply an analog for the Internet—it's the physical manifestation of all digital data no matter how vast or minute the system may be. This is shown in the movie Our War Game, where we actually see the Internet as a separate realm within the larger Digital World. Therefore, anything computerized, online or otherwise, can be affected by using the Digital World as a go-between. This applies mostly to the first two seasons, Adventure and Adventure 02, and Frontier. In Tamers, the Digital World and the Internet (referred to as "the Network" both in-universe and in supplementary material) are implied to be practically the same thing, so even the most tech-savvy of enemies like Makuramon, Zhuqiaomon, and the D-Reaper only able to attack systems connected directly to the Internet. The closed-circuit LAN system Hypnos operates on during the second half of the series proves largely invulnerable to the same type of attack that knocked out Hypnos HQ earlier in the series. |
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In the 2008 film Eagle Eye, the Voice with an Internet Connection who guides the protagonists, (ab)uses the fact that Everything Is Online to control every bit of electric machinery to aid the protagonists in their tasks. Traffic lights, security cameras, metros, mobile phones, electronic billboards, everything can be manipulated. Even construction cranes. And the movie, via timestamps on computers, shows it takes place in the distant future of January 2009. Subverted with Agent Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) who, thrown by the fact that cameras keep conveniently going online, seeks out the closed-circuit cameras of a small business store. The Voice With an Internet Connection can even cause a power pylon to drop its wires on a target and electrocute him — despite the lack of any apparent mechanical means, online or otherwise, in place for the purpose. |
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Averted in The Social Network, when Zuckerberg is shown hacking (realistically) into his college dorms' directories. He notes that one dormitory's network is isolated from the main college network, says "Can't do anything about that", and ignores it, moving on to the next one. | |
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In Invisible Apartment, the government's desire to make everything secure and controllable has led to this, creating unnecessary vulnerabilities in the name of safety. For example, Kacey has a real chance of getting into the government's central databases simply by hacking a café's payment processing system, because that's connected to the tax authorities (to avoid cheating) and the tax authority databases are linked to every other kind of record. | |
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In Charles Stross' Glasshouse, both everything and everyone is online. First because everyone has a communication implant allowing network access at any time, and second because almost all of the technology for transportation, healing and other activities common in the futuristic setting (immortality, altering its own body, creating clones of oneself, ...) is based on nanotechnological devices that deconstruct people (or things) molecule by molecule, store the pattern, alter/duplicate/transport it and reconstruct the result. Therefore, wars are fought through network worms which infect these nanoassemblers, and you have better have a good firewall if you don't want your personality to be hacked and edited. | |
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Parodied in Pharaoh Rebirth. The protagonist's friend is an American hacker whose abilities are very helpful to him, and a couple times are represented as mini-games. The protagonist becomes dependent on him and later asks him to hack stuff that gets him stuck, such as an ancient electric elevator and... a gap in the floor. | |
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This is how the events of The Fear Index can take place. The book that was ordered online required only a simple e-mail with no interaction with humans. The wannabe killer was contacted online. The conversation to the killer was ripped from files hacked from a doctor's office. The VIXAl-4 was able to build itself a new mainframe and maintain itself by ordering staff online, with money it stole from Hoffmann's company. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ultron can connect to almost anywhere on the Internet, rummaging through files and wreaking havoc in general. The first step to defeating him is when Vision forcibly overwrites his code, limiting his ability to transfer himself to within his army of drones. Subverted when Ultron tries to cover his tracks by deleting all the data available on Baron von Strucker. After lamenting the loss for a minute, the team just goes to the hard-copies and finds the connection. |
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Probe's "Computer Logic": Someone is able to turn televisions and radios on and off at will, Hack the Traffic Lights, and make neon lights explode. In the next half of the episode, it's revealed to be an Artificial Intelligence named Crossover, who has been given access to the power company and it is apparently able to control electronics by adjusting how much power is sent to them. | |
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Honor Harrington: Played straight and averted, depending on the computer network. Torch of Freedom: Jack McBryde is able to sabotage, rewrite, or destroy much of the Mesan Alignment's computer network, including all of their intel on The Audubon Ballroom and Torch. The Mesan Space Navy and Mesan Alignment Navy, however, are savvy enough not to have their systems directly connected to the larger network. Being one of the security technicians for the people you're targeting always helps, of course. Uncompromising Honor: At one point, two of the Mandarins have a conversation over a supposedly secure comlink, and it gets leaked. To prevent this from happening in the future, all five have archaic hardwired com connections installed between their offices. (Four of the five already had offices in the same tower, the fifth moved his office into that tower so the wires could be strung.) |
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In Alpha Prime, one of the major gameplay mechanics is a device which can remotely hack into and control cameras, doors, pressure valves, vehicle loaders, sentry guns, and proximity mines. The game lampshades this trope when your Mission Control, who hacks into pretty much everything else, says about opening a window, "Anything can be opened from a console when you have a real pro on the job." | |
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A major plot point in the .hack series is that everything is connected to the world wide web and, moreover, is connected by reliance on some variant of the single operating system that survived a catastrophic network virus disaster called Pluto's Kiss. This means everything from nuclear reactors to traffic light programs to heart monitors is somehow wired together. Pluto's Kiss, only referenced as Back Story, was said to have crashed every operating system that it could connect to, save for one, which means that it could have easily crashed the whole Internet, brought the stock market to a screeching halt, and disabled all military systems. Ironically, the solution to the problem could only lead to an even greater disaster for the exact same reason. In the first four games, this software standardization is utilized by the MMO, The World, to facilitate an ever-growing database of human personality observations designed to create the Ultimate AI, cutting into real-world systems to allocate memory and processing power. As the controlling software - Morganna Gone Mode - suffers from its own Logic Bomb, fragments itself into eight components, and then each of those components is destroyed, the systems it has hacked into begin breaking down and can not be recovered due to the nature of the overriding program. The stress is relieved when Aura, the Ultimate AI, is finally completed and she re-stabilizes the whole of the system. Then improves the system. In the second group of games, the inherent human-based AI producing software comes full circle and manages to bite the human operators in the butt in the form of AIDA, essentially the leftovers of Aura, multiple free-radical programs that affect players' minds directly through their neural headsets. Then, when the AIDA situation is resolved, a second Cubia appears in response to the re-activation of parts of the original Morganna program. And it tries to perform garbage collection on the whole of the affected systems, i.e., the whole network and everything connected to it. Interestingly, reading the news reports on the outside world in the games shows that there are, in fact, plenty of people who see the problem with the system, and are trying to break ALTIMIT OS's monopoly on the world's computers. The problem is that most people who lived through "Pluto's Kiss" are so convinced that ALTIMIT is invulnerable to viruses (and for the most part it is, only sentient AI's have been able to harm it), that they're unwilling to take a chance on anything else. |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in "Treehouse of Horror X". Homer's workstation falling victim to the Millennium Bug causes everything to rebel, including pacemakers, electric shavers, and cartons of milk. | |
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This is used in Live Free or Die Hard. The hackers have a "fire sale"; communications, water, power, all are taken down in sequence. They even give a jet pilot false orders to kill McClane. Of course, they are unable to remotely access the power grid and have to physically break into a power hub and later, the U.S. Omniscient Database. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Framework gets enough processing power to simulate a perfect virtual world by stealing power from every computing device in the world simultaneously. Of course, it was created with the help of the Darkhold, which tends to laugh at physics. | |
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In The Sense of Wonder, Pierre uses his laptop to set off the fire sprinklers in a nightclub to get revenge on them for firing Emma. | |
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Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad takes this to ridiculous levels; in one episode a "mega-virus monster" inside an alarm clock gives the main character a sequence of nightmares. Only the Rule of Funny lets one suspend disbelief. Don't forget the pom-poms that were infected with a virus that uploaded whoever used them to the villain's computer. Ironically, the villain only wanted the cheerleader who owned them, but by the end of the episode, the entire school (including the lunch lady, the main character's little sister, and the entire football team) were screaming floppy disks hanging from his ceiling, which he found very annoying. In one episode virus monster took over the wristwatch of one of the heroes, giving the villains control over her hand. What about the episode in which the villain switched two of the heroes' voices by putting a virus into an electric keyboard with voice-recording capabilities? Then there's the time the Big Bad developed a way to figure out the heroes' secret identities but needed more electronics for him to access in order to run the program, so how does he get it? He has his Dragon start a campaign to get everyone in town to put up Christmas lights. Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was made of this trope. One virus even turned the water into hydrochloric acid by doing something to the water department's computers. Note that this was the mid-'90s. Most egregiously, the cooking timer. The wind-up cooking timer. There's nothing electronic about those, but that doesn't stop the Monster of the Week from driving Mrs. Starkey nuts. It's less bad about this in the original Tokusatsu source material, Denkō Chōjin Gridman. Sometimes the scale or magnitude of the virus of the week is a bit high, but they never infect something that isn't at least plausibly computer-connected. That said the viruses do still cause electronic devices to do things that aren't physically possible like floating in the air. |
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Micah in Heroes embodies this trope with his ability to talk to machines. | |
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In Serial Experiments Lain, everything is online, without exception, to the point that one of the catchphrases is: no matter where you go, everyone's connected. In fact, Lain once almost gets run over by a car, because of a failure in the citywide car guidance system. Considering that the first scene depicts someone uploading their consciousness to the internet by committing suicide, conventional electrical gadgets being connected to the internet isn't far-fetched by comparison. The premise is basically this (minus the psychokinetic powers also present): human brains have electromagnetic vibrations in them as part of the neurons' functions. Planet Earth has ubiquitous electromagnetic resonance (called Schumann Resonance after its discoverer), which according to the series subtly affects the functions of the human brain. Somebody discovered how to manipulate the Schumann Resonance in a way that connects all people's minds subconsciously without necessarily even relying on machines, which naturally are also affected. |
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Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard reveals that all ships in Starfleet are networked to each other; this gets taken to its logical conclusion on Frontier Day when Admiral Shelby debuts the new "Fleet Formation", allowing the entire fleet to function as one unit. This bites Starfleet in the ass hard when the Borg seize control of the fleet en masse; the only hope to save The Federation is an older, non-networked ship — the rebuilt Enterprise-D. | |
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In Jake 2.0, Jake uses his symbiotic Nanomachines to move a new Cadillac sedan, noting that the car is computer-controlled. In fact, the show is full of cases of the nanites being used to hack things that shouldn't be remotely accessible, such as the pressure system in the pilot. | |
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Superman III, notable for displaying this trope before the Internet as we know it came along, has the villains remotely accessing everything from bank accounts to traffic lights to the weather itself (by messing with satellites). This is played for laughs to an extent: the traffic light flashes back and forth between the red man and the green man; eventually both stay lit — and then one jumps down and starts attacking the other. Now that's some magical hacking. | |
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Summer Wars: Everything is connected to the online community of OZ, up to and including major governments, large corporations, and traffic control. It is essentially the entire Internet routed through a single UI platform. Then an account-stealing AI gets released into OZ... | |
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In one particularly nonsensical episode of 7 Days (1998), an evil lovesick program manages to manipulate the knobs on a gas burner stove in an elaborate Murder the Hypotenuse. She also manages to disable every single nuclear weapon in the world. Apparently, not only are missile silos hooked up to the 'Net, but also every nuclear submarine and good old-fashioned plane-dropped bombs. Also, don't forget all those terrorist cells who somehow manage to build/steal a nuke. Apparently, the first thing they do is set up a wifi receiver. | |
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Amazingly averted once by NCIS: Los Angeles: when asked to do something about a security system, the team hacker points out that it isn't actually connected to the internet. Played straight most of the time otherwise, though. | |
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Hackers is all about a group of teenage hackers who do all sorts of things by hacking into computers as youthful rebellion. One particular hacking coup involves capsizing tankers via a virus. | |
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Darkwing Duck: In "Star-Crossed Circuits", D-2000 can control anything electronic, including the Ratcatcher and the Thunderquack. Once she gets mad at Darkwing, she hacks his public records to sic people on him. | |
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Invoked by the protagonist of Double Homework after he discovers the hidden cameras on the yacht. Even after he throws the server that (he thinks) contains all compromising pictures overboard, he discourages the girls from confronting or antagonizing Dennis too much, because he suspects that Dennis already has the pictures stored on one of his devices at home. | |
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Second Chance (2016): Since he never really leaves his home, Otto is usually used as a problem-fixer by using his computer skills to manipulate technology miles away. He's been shown "hacking" into police cams, mechanical cranes, or anything else really if the plot requires it. | |
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On Caprica, Zoe Greystone creates an online AI avatar of herself and several other people not by copying their psyche, but by relying on information online such as medical records, security footage, etc. Noteworthy is the fact that Caprica in itself is neither our planet nor our present time, but it's a nice metaphor/warning/criticism of our reliance on technology and its possible consequences. | |
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Carried to a ridiculous extreme in Ghost in the Machine (not to be confused with the trope of the same name): in a freak accident, a serial killer has his mind (or soul, or whatever) transferred into Cyberspace. Not only is he able to hack computers, but he can also control electrical appliances, including electrocuting his victims, and in one particular scene causes a microwave oven to cook someone to death. In mere seconds. From several feet across an open room! Apparently by turning it up a notch, despite the fact most magnetrons only have one power level (pseudo-levels achieved through duty cycles). Though it does look cool. Though not as deadly as in the movie, nor involving in cyberspace, paranormal beings causing appliances to turn against the owners may not be as unheard of as one would think according to the leaked results of an £1 million government investigation. |
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In The Dark Knight Rises: Selina Kyle remarks that "everything is collated and quantified. It sticks", and says how any kid with a smartphone can upload anything onto the internet, in justification of wanting a "clean slate" computer program to wipe her criminal record clean. Inverted with the stock market heist — Bane's crew apparently need to take over the physical building housing the trading floor in order to run their fake trades (or at the very least, start the process). |
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In High School Musical one of the "brains" uses her laptop to hack the school's electrical grid, disabling power everywhere except the theater, so that Troy and Gabriela can make their callback at the climax of the show (movie or stage). | |
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In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Jamming with Edward", Ed retaliates against a pair of policemen who try to apprehend her by hacking into their ship's autopilot and taking it for a joy ride, accidentally crashing it. (Fortunately for them, she's a Playful Hacker and does it while it's parked outside with no one in it.) | |
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Perhaps the attack on the Magi computer system in End of Evangelion would have failed much sooner if NERV, instead of putting up firewalls in a Race Against the Clock, had simply disconnected the bloody thing from every line connected to the outside world. The English dub for Ireul's invasion of the Magi has Ritsuko suggest that attempting to sever the Magi from each other or anything else would require dismantling the Geofront (in the Japanese version, she merely voices her concern about abandoning the Magi so swiftly). |
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Rhys from Tales from the Borderlands can hack into all sorts of Hyperion tech with his Echo-Eye. In episode 2 he can either hack into Vasquez's car or his shotgun. | |
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The fourth season of 24 features a terrorist plot to simultaneously melt down every nuclear reactor in the US using a piece of Applied Phlebotinum that looks like an ordinary laptop computer in a fancy attache case. Season 7 introduced us to the "CIP device", a widget somewhat resembling a PCI modem, which had the power to hack into air traffic control transmissions, remote control aircraft, cause chemical plants to go critical, and cause general havoc nationwide. |
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In Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist's motorcycle is rendered inert by a computer virus. ("Asherah's possessed his bike.") Perhaps justified by the book's setting in a futuristic Cyberpunk world, since there's already lots of work going into the idea of making the electronic engine management system of cars remotely accessible, so that it can be disabled in the event of theft, or stopped by the police without the need for risky manoeuvres. More creative uses are left as an exercise for the student... | |
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However in the previous Splinter Cell games, averting this was the whole reason for Third Echelon's existence: Sam Fisher is only sent in to infiltrate the facilities that can't be breached by electronic means. One mission in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has Grim try to hack a bank's network, only to discover that they unplug their hard drives every night before sending Sam in. | |
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The Adventures Of Dr Mcninja: Mocked in this strip, where Dan clearly assumes that his techno-wizard son can automatically hack anything. And more cleanly subverted here. Sean does mention that he managed to get in through an unsecured wi-fi connection (the robot was built out of a bunch of houses), he just can't do anything with that. Later, Dan is shown physically slamming a keyboard against the robot's leg because nothing else has worked. |
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In Static Shock, a disgruntled technician builds a helmet that allows her to uplink her consciousness to the Internet in the form of the ultimate worm virus. Not only can she connect to things that shouldn't be online, but she can also take anything that has a computer in it and use that fact to access functions the computer itself couldn't, such as driving cars by accessing "the onboard computer systems", which should really just consist of a GPS or something. Now, given that she chose to pull this gimmick against an electricity-themed hero and his supergenius sidekick, she doesn't last very long — she gets taken out with antivirus software which winds up feeding back through the helmet and pretty much rendering her catatonic. The repercussions are never discussed. | |
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One of the customers in Not Always Right is clearly under this impression when he decides that visiting the company's Web site must be the reason his car won't start. | |
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Vagabond (2019): Lily the assassin tries to kill Dae-gu by somehow hacking into his car's computer system, while Dal-gu is on the road, and remotely disabling the brakes. | |
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The most wonderful example of this would be Inspector Gadget's niece Penny's Computer Book. In a time when the first laptop computers were just being released, hers could break into anything to help her Uncle Gadget. | |
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Ghost in the Shell justified as making sense in a world where almost everyone you meet has a cybernetic implant connecting their brain wirelessly to the internet. Shown most prominently when the Laughing Man, on more than one occasion, hacks not only cameras but people's visual inputs to replace his face with his two-dimensional logo. In a Mind Screw moment, people will even remember and swear that the logo is the real face. However, the trope is averted when logical. In the aforementioned Laughing Man incident, two homeless guys without any cybernetics are not affected. Not that they see particularly much. The military uses "autistic mode", meaning they turn off their wireless capability. Likewise, certain facilities and networks are not connected to the broader net, forcing Section 9 to resort to more direct methods fairly often. And then there is the case of "ghost hacks", where a person's natural personality and memory can be deleted/edited from a remote source. This is really, really hard, however - it's mentioned that there are fewer than a half dozen individuals in the world who are capable of it. The hackers fight in Man-Machine Interface involves someone disconnecting a vulnerable plug and using lasers to attack the satellites used by the other side to transmit info! |
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The basic premise of Corrector Yui is Magical Girls in an online world trying to fix things in the real world, including school trips, traffic lights, and medical machinery. | |
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However, Cy's predecessor Alana (in The Girl from Tomorrow) has a wrist device that interfaced with any and all computers. In 1990. | |
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Subverted in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The villain is able to hack the US drone defense network using a rare earth metal device, but only after breaking into and accessing the server on a US carrier. Played straight afterward when he is able to control EVERY drone the US has, and even take over public utility facilities. | |
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The heroes of Sneakers, with the super-chip they've just stolen, are able to access anything from the Federal Reserve to the national air-traffic control system. | |
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Champions: In Champions (2016) #17, the second Vivian is able to take control of subway trains by hacking into their control systems through the internet. | |
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The trope continues in the spiritual successor, Mega Man Star Force, and it's taken to such ridiculous levels that you can find EM wave spaces in medieval crowns, sunken galleon masts, rocks, and even rotisserie chicken, and that's just in 2. | |
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Ms. Marvel: In Ms. Marvel (2016), Doc.X is a sapient computer virus whose main schtick is its ability to download itself into anything and everything. In addition to computers, tablets, phones and the like, it can enter and control cars and construction equipment — some do have built-in computers, but these never control their actual moving parts — and even human brains. | |
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WarGames, probably one of the earlier instances of this trope, relies on the idea that the computer that controls the launching of nuclear missiles is accessible to anyone with a 300 baud modem. Of course, the creator of the not-so-evil A.I. put in a backdoor password; his son's name. In this case, WOPR was not supposed to be accessible from outside. It was a grave switching error at a phone company that made it possible. | |
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Batman: If Bruce Wayne needs anything, ever, somehow the Batcomputer can always find it, and on the very rare occasions it can't if Bats asks her nicely enough Barbara Gordon can. | |
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In an episode of the old Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon, a virus causes everything to work for Dr. Wily. Even phone cords. And toasters. And sofas. In fact, the objects he controls act in ways they couldn't possibly in normal life, like street lamps strangling people. Half of the objects didn't even use electricity, like a push lawnmower and an exercise bike and he controlled all those appliances all at the same time with just a joystick. | |
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In Outlive instead of the human spies who do operations for the player on a set budget and have a training time if they get captured and killed, the robots pay money to create expendable viruses that are used in certain quantities for certain missions. These can be used for everything to scouting an area of pristine wilderness and sabotage, to redirecting ICBMs. | |
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In The Magic School Bus one of the kids writes a computer program to do all of the school opening tasks such as make coffee, open the doors, and raise the flag on the flagpole. Many viewers note the kids spent longer doing that then fixing their mistakes than if they just did all the tasks themselves. Keep in mind, outside of the obviously-supernatural elements, this episode's events are actually pretty believable nowadays, unlike when it first came out. Networked coffee makers and Internet-connected door locks are widely available. Motorized flag poles are also a thing, though they aren't as common. These days, it's pretty easy to imagine a computer-savvy elementary school student noticing various underused "smart" devices throughout a school, and offering to set them up to make things easier for the staff. Then again, it would be more common to program each device individually with its own microcontroller rather than running everything to a single seemingly-ordinary desktop computer, which would be a security nightmare just waiting to happen. |
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The Net (1995) is entirely built around this trope. It was made when the Internet was just becoming mainstream in America and explores the frightening possibilities of this new technology. The plot involves a computer programmer being targeted by shadowy forces who hack her personal records to ruin her life. Scene after scene is intended to show how pervasive and powerful the Internet is becoming. | |
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In Champions, every motor vehicle in Millennium City is remotely controlled by a central computer. They never really discuss the implications of this. | |
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In Dan Simmon's Hyperion Cantos, most of the computer systems in the world are connected together through the "megasphere", a multi-world Internet monitored by A.I.s from the TechnoCore, but some systems (notably military networks) are designed to be independent. It is revealed, however, that the TechnoCore can access these systems anyway. So, everything is online even if it's not supposed to be. Which sucks because, of course, the apparently benevolent AIs finally betray humanity. | |
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The main villain in Skyfall is somehow able to use computers to cause a gas explosion and escape from his jail cell. | |
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Class of '09: By 2034 in the US this has become the case, to the point that all cars now have connections to the Internet helping them drive (with police able to remotely stop them). Unfortunately, it also means they can be hacked and cars driven recklessly to injure or kill people remotely too. | |
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Acknowledged in ReBoot: Daemon can't infect systems that don't have a connection to the net. Interestingly, you can use Portals to access said systems. | |
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In Xenosaga, through the UMN, all of reality is online and hackable, and bodies, souls, and data are somewhat interchangeable. | |
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It's less bad about this in the original Tokusatsu source material, Denkō Chōjin Gridman. Sometimes the scale or magnitude of the virus of the week is a bit high, but they never infect something that isn't at least plausibly computer-connected. That said the viruses do still cause electronic devices to do things that aren't physically possible like floating in the air. | |
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Cyberpunk: Unbuilt Trope. One of the things that made Rache Bartmoss decide to destroy the Internet was the sheer number of things that were accessible online but had no business being online. Things he found that he could control from home included airlocks on orbital stations and the mass driver the ESA used to send spaceships from the Moon to Earth, so he had a point. Just for reference, this game was published a mere six years after the first appliance was connected to a computer (a bunch of nerds at Carnegie-Mellon hooked up their vending machine with sensors that could check available beverages and their temperature, and connected those to the computer lab via ARPANET) and three years before the term "ubiquitous computing" was coined. | |
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Part of the host segments running through the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Starfighters" deals with Crow T. Robot being unable to get on the Internet, only succeeding at the end of the episode. | |
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In the H.I.V.E. Series, if it's a computer, Otto Malpense can control it, hack into it, or just plain mess around with it. Examples include; "talking" with a computer-controlled car, deactivating the Big Bad's space station while texting the semi-good guys, and jamming a grappler device. | |
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Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: A Monster of the Week infects the Humongous Mecha with a virus... that is transmitted to the base, and somehow, to an android character who has never shown to have any actual connection to the base's computers (he's got to push buttons like everybody else - and in fact, wasn't even known to be an android until this incident!). This would have actually made perfect sense in some seasons (which have literal Magical Computers that are connected by the same mystical forces) but Overdrive is all tech. On the other hand, the virus was transmitted by a Magic Ninja... | |
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Justified in Futurama: Mom had designed things that way so that she could eventually Take Over the World. | |
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In one episode of the 1980s animated The Incredible Hulk, an evil computer starts taking over the world through the electric power lines. All manner of small appliances, including electric razors and pop-up toasters, start flying around and attacking people. | |
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Mage: The Ascension features the Virtual Adepts, who believe this about... well, everything. More specifically, they believe in a blend of holographic theory and information theory that says all things are closer than anyone thinks, and affecting one variable can affect any number of others if one knows what they're doing. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Internet," Gumball and Darwin attempt to reach their destination, but the titular Internet hacks into pedestrian crossing signals, police databases, and even a fire hydrant to impede their progress. There's so much technology everywhere that they resort to going through the technology-free park instead. | |
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Untraceable: Apart from hacking a car, the villain also sets up a system where footage of whatever victim he's caught is streamed live to the internet, and the more views it gets, the closer the trap they're caught in comes to killing them. 'Cause New Media Are Evil. | |
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Real Drive has this, although there are still some people without a cybernetic implant. | |
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent has a sequence where a character hacks into some slot machines and makes them start spewing money as a distraction. To make it worse, those slot machines are on a cruise ship at sea. However in the previous Splinter Cell games, averting this was the whole reason for Third Echelon's existence: Sam Fisher is only sent in to infiltrate the facilities that can't be breached by electronic means. One mission in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has Grim try to hack a bank's network, only to discover that they unplug their hard drives every night before sending Sam in. |
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While often played straight, this is subverted at least as often on Leverage as Hardison typically needs physical access to hack into the target systems. However, the subversions generally only apply when it is important to the plot. When it is an element played for laughs, it is more likely to be this trope, one notable example is when Hardison easily hacks into the traffic cameras in London to spy on Nate. There is also an example where Hardison first meets Chaos, his Evil Counterpart. They face-off Wild West style, but with keyboards. Both start Rapid-Fire Typing, which somehow causes all the car alarms to go off near them. In the same episode, Hardison is smart enough to resort to using old tech to thwart Chaos, such as a hand-crank generator (i.e. unhackable). | |
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Enforced in Yurei Deco: Tom Sawyer Island is covered by an Augmented Reality, and participation through a Brain/Computer Interface known as a 'Deco' is mandatory for all citizens. Everything, from the facades of buildings to individual people's avatars, have an AR component that overlaps the physical one, and there are entirely digital constructs like classrooms that can be entered from anywhere through one's Deco. | |
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Averted in the web-novel Domina. When Butler says that the changelings are hacking him, he means they're hacking the basic public-access sites which don't control anything remotely important. It's compared to graffiti; "Annoying, but harmless." Nothing important is ever connected to outside networks. When someone hacks something important, it means that they already sent in a commando team to plant a wi-fi bug on a connected terminal earlier. | |
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In The Core, the plucky comic-relief hacker prevents Project Destini from firing by hacking into the power grid, and re-routing all electrical power, throughout the United States, to Coney Island. Apparently, there is no longer any such thing as a manual transformer switch. | |
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Justified when the AI John Henry from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is able to control lights, elevators, and normal doors in the building where he is physically located, as it is explicitly stated that he has been linked into those systems at the behest of the company's owner. However, in a later episode, it is revealed that he has discovered how to tap telephones throughout California, at least. | |
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Shadowrun is generally one of the usual suspects, though it does avert the trope on occasion. In 3rd edition, extra-sensitive systems were often offline or in a closed-circuit system, though "extra-sensitive" may or may not include the security of top-secret megacorp research labs. 4th and 5th edition still take the cake: almost all computers rely on wireless technology, meaning you don't even need a physical connection to your target to wreak havoc. Forget people's cars, start thinking about people's cyberware, which may include things like eyes or even the connection between their brain and their somatic nervous system — meaning that a good runner team needs a good decker or technomancer in order to safeguard their stuff from getting bricked or worse by Matrix attacks. However the new "mesh" structure of the wireless matrix means that you need to be physically inside many corp facilities to hack their equipment. Many corps are also savvy enough to store their most vital information on servers that can only be physically accessed from computers with no matrix functionality (and delete the copies), meaning that there will occasionally be a need for the decker to physically access the server room. Sixth World edition assumes that most runners will run their equipment and 'ware offline, but has a "wireless bonus" section in most equipment descriptions for when one wants to risk exposure to hacking. |
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In Transcendence, The virus shuts down basically every piece of technology on the planet, though it is mentioned there are a few spots where technology is working. Boston has phone service, for instance. | |
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Illium, also by Simmons, takes this to its logical extreme. The noosphere connects everything in nature to the web, allowing people to talk with trees as one of the less Egregious examples, in an early version of what would eventually become the Allnet. Activating said Allnet grants you the ability to see every flow and chemical process, properly named for your convenience, of everything everywhere on earth. You can also teleport wherever you want, from wherever you want and to wherever you want, of course including instant verbal and nonverbal communication with anyone anywhere. It's pretty convenient. | |
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Eclipse Phase has most everything connected by wireless mesh, including robot brains. Exsurgent technology goes farther, actually. You can hack someone's brain through their sensory input. That said, the extremely paranoid Jovian Junta has all their government systems on a closed-loop wired network. And even the more reasonable Titanian Commonwealth has a hard-wire backup system in case of TITAN attack. |
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Doctor Who: "The Green Death": The megalomaniac computer BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) plans to take over the world by controlling all the world's computers. In the 1970s (or was it the '80s?). "Dalek": The Dalek not only manages to download the entire Internet within mere seconds from a random terminal in an Elaborate Underground Base, it simultaneously drains the entire western United States of electricity. "The Eleventh Hour": The Doctor writes a computer virus that resets everything everywhere to zero, including random clocks on the wall. Mechanical clocks. |
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Initially justified with the grumpy supercomputer Orac in Blake's 7. Orac's creator also designed the "Tarriel cells" that power all computers in the Federation, with the specific goal that Orac could remotely access them undetectably and unstoppably. How it also managed to control alien computers is not explained. | |
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Averted in Deus Ex twice. One mission involves getting an allied AI access to military internet systems. At the end of the game Deus est Machina Helios get its power because people willingly follow it instead of the corrupt leaders currently in power. It can at most "change some codes and turn off a couple lights" on its own. | |
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JAG: In "Shadow", Grover claims to control the torpedo via his laptop and is able to set off various bombs he has concealed throughout the ship. It is lampshaded that the only way he is able to do this is because he arranged for extra pieces of equipment to be installed in the submarine while it was still under construction. | |
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In the Inspector Morse episode "Masonic Mysteries", the villain is able to frame Morse by hacking into the police computer and altering his records. And he does all this from a prison terminal. After doing a computer course at prison. The villain in question is Emperor Palpatine. As if those insignificant machines would dare to disobey... |
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Battlestar Galactica: The Cylons use this trope a lot. In some cases, it's justified as in the miniseries where the Colonies have allowed a Cylon infiltrator to write their military coding. Because of this, the Galactica herself (which was built during the first Cylon War) has absolutely no wireless connections at all. Phones have cords, gun turrets have a cockpit with a gunnery crew, and every single computer on the ship is isolated from every other computer on the ship. This is why the ship survived the initial attack when most modern ships were dead in the water due to sabotage. At one point, the Galactica's computers are networked together in order to increase efficiency when calculating an FTL jump, only for the Cylons to quickly hack into it, starting from the communications system. They are stopped by physically pulling the wires. | |
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Averted in Kingsman: The Secret Service. For Merlin to get into Valentine's system, Eggsy has to infiltrate Valentine's base, gain access to a laptop already connected to his internal network, then plug in a device to give Merlin remote access to the laptop. And even once he has access to the system, he can't do anything to prevent Valentine's plan, as it relies on biometric security. | |
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Justified in Blame! The Netsphere was designed as an online paradise and safe haven for any human with Net Terminal Genes, as well as a system with absolute control over near everything within The City. Safeguards can even download themselves from the Netsphere into the physical work where they can construct bodies from the nearest random materials. |
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In The Scarecrow, Carver the Serial Killer bad guy is head of security at a server farm, and thus can go pretty much anywhere he wants on the Internet. He sets up a trap site to let him know that he's being investigated and then uses his all-access Internet pass to cut Intrepid Reporter good guy Jack McEvoy off from the world — emptying Jack's bank account, canceling his credit cards, canceling his phone service, cutting off his email access. This is all part of a plot to isolate and murder Jack. | |
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Travelers is about a group of people who send their consciousness from the future to take over people in our present, to avert the Crapsack World that the future will become. To do this, they need to know precisely where their target is at a particular place and time. This means that they first start showing up in the early 21st century because not only is the world now full of cameras and cellphones but somehow all that data is recorded and still available even in the far future. Also in the spirit of this trope, the Big Bad of the final seasons integrates himself with an AI and then launches a nuclear apocalypse. | |
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In an episode of Flashpoint, the team's technical expert Spike notes that the criminals running an illegal casino made his job easy by using basic off-the-shelf wireless cameras for surveillance. He can easily access the system remotely and use the cameras to guide the team into the building. Another time he is forced at gunpoint to hack into the security system of a police evidence warehouse. Apparently, every alarm in the building can be accessed remotely over the internet if you know the access codes. |
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The premise of MegaMan NT Warrior (2002), the anime version of the above game series, is naturally founded upon this trope as well. The first episode demonstrates this by showing that a kitchen oven is connected to the internet, and its self-cleaning devices are regulated through it. | |
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In the first-season Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "I Robot, You Jane", a demon is scanned out of the pages of an ancient book and into a file on a school computer. For the rest of the episode, he's considered "on the web", and bad things happen around the world because of "computer error". Giles and Buffy worry that the demon's presence on the web will give him the opportunity to meddle with traffic signals, destabilize the world's economies, and launch nuclear missiles. | |
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Averted in Mission: Impossible (1996) when Ethan recruits computer expert Luther Stickell and explains his plan to get access to the computer that holds the NOC list. Luther chuckles and starts to explain to the "computer illiterate" the aversion to this trope, pointing out that this particular system is "what is called a 'stand-alone'". After a few seconds, Ethan reveals that he's not as computer illiterate as Luther thinks and describes the top-notch security around the machine. And yes, this means physically going in and getting the data onto a disk. | |
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Project Eden: Lucy hacked into a police computer and get her sister sent to the cities underground, so she can steal her body. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Justified in Galaxy of Fear. One book takes place on a luxury cruise starship, and many functions are being switched from being done by crew to being handled by the computer, from choosing a course to cooking the food. When the computer goes rogue, well... | |
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The basic premise of Mega Man Battle Network. In some optional missions, escaped viruses make their way into action figures and electronic keyboards. Even the Mafia operates online. The premise of MegaMan NT Warrior (2002), the anime version of the above game series, is naturally founded upon this trope as well. The first episode demonstrates this by showing that a kitchen oven is connected to the internet, and its self-cleaning devices are regulated through it. Also occasionally averted. While many unlikely things are connected to the internet such as Mayl's piano and Miyuki's mirror (which may just be PCs designed to look like these things), there are many devices like cars, TVs, vending machines and major public works like the water treatment plant that are not online, despite being computer-controlled and must be jacked into manually. The trope continues in the spiritual successor, Mega Man Star Force, and it's taken to such ridiculous levels that you can find EM wave spaces in medieval crowns, sunken galleon masts, rocks, and even rotisserie chicken, and that's just in 2. |
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In Hacknet, this trope is very much in effect, including a pacemaker in one of the game's final missions. However, the Final Boss is a backup server that's designed to be kept offline save for periodic online update checks - the Featureless Protagonist only gets a shot at wiping troublesome data off it because another hacker forces the server to make such an update check and pipes the connection over to the Player Character. | |
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Used as a plot point in Final Fantasy XIII: The Big Bad controls the internet, and lets the party shop through secure channels that the military doesn't know about in order to fuel his plan to turn them into Super Soldiers and help destroy humanity. He even taunts you about this whenever you go shopping later in the game. | |
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In Short Circuit 2, Johnny 5 replaces his shoulder-mounted laser with a radio that can hack things. He uses it to shut down cars by triggering their burglar alarms and pilot remote-controlled model airplanes. However, in the last few minutes of the movie, when the villain is escaping in a boat, Johnny 5 tries to use it on the boat, but it doesn't work because it is not radio-controlled. | |
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Played straight in MindJack where due to advances in cybernetics by the huge corporations nearly everything and everyone is online. | |
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In Cyberpunk 2077, a combination of this and a world where just about everyone has swapped out some of their standard body parts for cybernetic equivalents means that a skilled netrunner can easily turn off people's eyes, or make them put a gun to their heads and pull the trigger. | |
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DFZ: Discussed; when Opal discovers that a man encoded some GPS coordinates on his cybernetic hand, the hacker she brings it to mentions that cybernetics have really tough security because no one wants their implants hacked. It also has no wireless capability (even in a city where a significant amount of the wifi is literally magic) because there is no benefit to justify leaving such a massive security vulnerability in your cybernetics. | |
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In Cybergirl, the Cyber Replicants are able to interface with any computers simply by cocking their heads. This includes security systems, ATMs, electronic keyboards, TVs and school computers. Only one of which is usually online. However, Cy's predecessor Alana (in The Girl from Tomorrow) has a wrist device that interfaced with any and all computers. In 1990. |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is an example of the evil computer version — in this case, Skynet. Many of the electronic things it spreads through, like cash registers, aren't even supposed to be online, so the Terminator infects stuff with remote-control Nanomachines. | |
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Nicely Averted in Cannon God Exaxxion; though each Artificial Human can hack into things like robots and space battle ships, they have to assimilate them with Nanomachines to do it. | |
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In the cartoon series The Batman, a Digital Advanced Villain Emulator (D.A.V.E) program "escapes" through the power cord of his computer, into a manufacturing factory, knocks out a worker by firing electricity through the keyboard and then reprograms the factory to build him a body. Earlier in the series, The Riddler hacks into a computer system and is somehow able to remote-operate a crane at a construction site. |
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In The Matrix, everything is the result of being plugged into a computer simulation. | |
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Also applies to XANA's attacks in Code Lyoko, although this is partially explained away — the inky black "spectres" are apparently capable of wiring up any electronic device, inanimate object, or even human being, as desired. Jérémie also manages to hack about anything with the Supercomputer, including military databases. |
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Downplayed in Gunpoint. Everything within a single building is on the same circuit, which is controlled by software. The gameplay revolves around a phone mod that lets the player character hack the software to rewire the circuit (e.g. making a light switch open a door that normally uses a handprint scanner). Most buildings also have multiple circuits, and the electronics on one circuit cannot interact with ones on another. If the character purchases a separate mod, even guns can be put on this system, resulting in situations where firing a gun will instead turn the lights off, or triggering a motion detector will fire a gun. |
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In A Fox Tail Vulpie manages to infect everything connected to the internet with a Contagious A.I.. Everything ranges from TVs to military robots and spaceships. Before his big move, he plays with some traffic lights using his phone. | |
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