What’s the Worst Tech Fails You’ve Seen in Movies? (Bonus: Rage Over Power/SATA

[xahefig900]

We've all cringed at Hollywood's hilarious misunderstandings of tech—hackers smashing keyboards, "enhancing" JPEGs into 3D crime scenes, or connecting to the mainframe with a cable that clearly goes nowhere.

So let's rant about:

Most Unrealistic Cable Scene

Example: A hero "rewiring" a server with what's obviously a SATA cable (meant for hard drives) to stop a nuke.

Or a power cable dangling from nothing, magically fueling a supercomputer.

Best/Worst "Tech Babble"

"Reverse the polarity of the Ethernet!"—wait, that's not how any of this works.

Your Favorite "Bad Movie" Tech Moment

Extra points if it involves cables used as plot devices (looking at you, Mission Impossible rope drops).

The Goal: Celebrate the absurdity while roasting the worst offenders. Who's earned the Golden SATA Cable of Nonsense award?

[Gabriel Knight]

I think the most absurd would be INDEPENDENCE DAY when they just "upload" a virus to an alien spacecraft, like if they were running Windows XP or something.

On the other hand, the most accurate I've ever seen was UNTRACEABLE. While still has some corny stuff, overall it makes perfect sense, talking about proxies and stuff instead of super hacker skills that makes no sense. Give it a watch if you have the chance.

[Trevor]

THE RECRUIT tells us that the CIA headquarters does not allow drives in their computers yet a character is shown putting a USB flash drive into a PC and downloading information 😳