'Snowden' aces CIA test in exclusive film clip

Controversial ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, demonstrates serious smarts in this new clip from the Oliver Stone movie.
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[@xplays7992]

How my Grandma sees me when I change HDMI to HDMI2:

[@LeXx0r]

you literally made my day haha

[@kedrprao]

Hahahahhaha I was laughing for 5 mins in my room.

[@tijoabraham8608]

You said it 🤠😂😂

[@onurkaradeniz569]

AHAHAHAHAHAHH thank you for this!

[@VikasKumar-nq8if]

😂😂😂😂

[@flashkraft]

I can see a flaw. He didn't say "I'm in."

[@Idisagreethisisnotanon]

😂😂😂

[@ModernTraveler]

I had to make sure this went from 399 likes to 400.

[@petergilbert7106]

You sonofabitch, i'm in.

[@gogglebottle]

@@petergilbert7106 well, if he's in, i'm in

[@core4090]

Aannnddd... IM IN.

[@TheSparrowLooksUp]

>taking a computer hacking test at the CIA
>doesn't lock his computer when he leaves his work area.

[@Absurdword]

Lmfaoooo

[@jerrettjohnson99]

He also forget to not to login as root.
> NEVER work under root, its a huge security risk. Just sudo.

[@andyt2k]

They need to check his work

[@RohitKumar-vf1yx]

Whats the use of locking his computer? Everyone in that room can anyways hack into the computer 😛

[@judgebao]

so others can copy, brooo

[@zinxxd3037]

but can he program "Hello World"?

[@riverwaitin4998]

Love this

[@rabder7762]

That is the question

[@raymondjude6088]

He can more than that

[@OpZeus12]

He Can Make Your phone to say hello to you 😂😂
No offense Just have Fun😉👍

[@Zaddy_Woods]

Love this comment

[@claudiuvma]

38 minutes sir. And for the rest of the time let me introduce you to Raid Shadow and Legends.

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

No...no........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[@zandyzain6241]

😁

[@depress_the_clutch2118]

😂😂😂

[@TheTeknus]

Skillshare would be more fitting

[@doom-driveneap4569]

😂😂😂

[@grammarofficerkrupke4398]

The director should've consulted this comment section before shooting this.

[@ChristopherP]

All the pro hackers are in this comment section.

[@everythingisawesome2903]

but let's see what the experts in the comment section thinks.

[@satoshinakamoto3342]

This comment section existed after this scene was shot

[@QixTheDS]

@@satoshinakamoto3342 oh my lord

[@grammarofficerkrupke4398]

@B P Yes.

[@BinhNguyen-ld6bi]

"...you will fail!"
me: hmm sir... are we allow to use StackOverflow?

[@shazaz9645]

I understood that reference

[@rogerm4a1]

I understood that as well.

[@jerrettjohnson99]

StackOverflow is the Bible of IT Manuals lol 😆 😂 🤣

[@Atmos_Glitch]

What else are you supposed to use?
Your own head?

[@ScaredDonut]

Real question I've had for the longest time. Do Stackoverflow devs use stackoverflow? 😂

[@gnizz0021]

As a programmer, I'm deeply offended at how cliché they made this scene. Green text and black background? Come on...

[@AJAY7509]

Its just a film man they cant be putting the 3hr program in a 2hr or less film.

[@godofecht]

@mahesh Nayak Linux has GUI capabilities, what are you on about.

[@abrannan]

@@godofecht When I'm writing custom scripts to run various command line pen testing tools, I prefer to be in a terminal session. GUIs just slow you down.

[@abrannan]

And he was in a GUI, 0:35 shows he's got multiple terminal windows open on his screen.

[@godofecht]

@@abrannan I'm responding to mahesh nayak's comment. Not yours.

[@XavierCarpenterMTL]

Hmmm he should’ve added 1 gb of ram
That’s how the real pros do it

[@DuckPuncher]

No, the real pros would have downloaded 1 gb of RAM

[@SousTerre1]

An what’s that off?

[@QuirkyAvik]

lmao I actually recognize the reference because of YT algorithm pushing me to watch that scene a while back.

[@hudortunnel9784]

@@SousTerre1 hahaha

[@hudortunnel9784]

@@SousTerre1 it's an old joke dude

[@SpiritsBB]

It's clips like these that make Computer Scientist look unnecessarily nerdy.

[@rofiqel6226]

ikr

[@umkemesic]

Now, create a GUI interface using visual basic to track the hacker's IP address.

[@THS11382]

film steps to securing your servers... create a bash script to spam ftp commands... also kek

[@politicalstatus197]

Lmao... A user interface (GUI to most) is an interface without events. Until you code those events and functions, it is essentially useless...

[@brolmao6865]

one month late but that comment about creating a gui was a joke, flew over your head

[@umkemesic]

Now, create a GUI interface using visual basic to track the hacker's IP address.

[@sadface]

Perfect haha

[@justing7490]

It's not real until I see a cyber nuke get dropped.

[@coltonrobinson458]

Doritalos what's that from

[@umkemesic]

Copy and past it on youtube or google. I think it's CSI

[@Teddemeister]

graphical user interface interface.... k

[@untitled6981]

I always tell people that my job as a programmer is unrealistically portrayed in movies but this movie has nailed it. This is like a day in the life.

[@davidvivsik6576]

Lmao

[@nicbentulan]

re the 5 hour average, how long would you take? 38 minutes? 6 hrs? 2 hr?

[@Truth_World99]

“You have 8 hours or you fail”
Me: “ew look at this layout”
spends 2 hours playing around with css*

[@beanbeandood22]

what's css

[@aloisvanparys1513]

counterstrike super offensive

[@iota5722]

Consider it a paint job

[@zahiruddinzafir2946]

@@aloisvanparys1513 lmfao bro

[@error0803]

@Aloïs Van Parys Counter Strike: Source actually

[@carlcody8911]

Takes me 4 hours just to push and pull from gitlab...

[@constipatedparker5879]

This is basically hackers portrayed in hollywood in a nutshell.

[@TheSpandexcatcher]

Except this is based on an actual person's life

[@vikumwijekoon3166]

and this is pretty accurate. except for wrong commands, and probably wrong script. Most good programmers and net admins uses terminal to work cuz, its faster when you know what youre doing

[@paulunga]

Holy shit, why does this clip look like it was cut for a 90s hacker movie?

[@SebastianB18]

Swordfish 2.0

[@supreme5998]

Well, he was working for the CIA in 2006 so yeah. The tech was older.

[@thewkovacs316]

@@supreme5998 no evidence that he ever worked for the cia as a hacker.

[@supreme5998]

@@thewkovacs316 yeah you would hope not. who wants to work for the cia with a paper trail

[@Vv18_._]

the Studio just confirmed that the clip looks too serious, so there will be re-shoots to add more comedy, and Joseph Gordon Levitt will be reduced to only 8 minutes of the whole film, to show more Will Smith

[@garrettk7166]

Kino Zomby 4D, actually. Plus there will be an interactive VR version, where you BECOME Will Smith. You will initially go on a mission to track down Joseph Gordon Levitt, but it will change into Will Smith working with aliens to create peace across the cosmos.

[@cvson8099]

All fiction, the Snowden portrayal is so over the top in this lmao

[@BearMetro]

Yeah dude, based on true events. They can't lie.

[@cjcourter1477]

Internet doesn't lie bro

[@imahadevan98]

Opens CMD
Types ipconfig
Booom! I'm a hacker.

[@yassinaalsahlania6981]

Ifconfig - we use Linux over here boys

[@morisjohn4167]

@@yassinaalsahlania6981 I hoped someone would've written it when I clicked the replies button.. I wasn't disappointed.

[@1chaplain]

"Build a site"
That thing would've already taken a week

[@winnerwinnerchickendinner8042]

This is the cheesiest shit

[@Liza.Wharton]

The fuckin' dubsteppy music really adds insult to injury

[@XhunterDragon96]

I kinda wanna kill myself after watching this.

[@LTLBproductions]

aye so you gonna live stream it or wut?

[@zachsacamano1510]

Yea this movie was complete ass

[@CIAcomedyinamerica]

Not as cheesy as hackers

[@tylerstephenson8886]

apparently the notion that Snowden was some sort of amazing NSA agent was incorrect, as he was apparently pretty middling. Which makes this movie even more hilarious as it paints him as some sort of super spy.

[@trentsawyer8623]

Yeah, he was able to access some of the most secure files in the world, copy them and remove them from a building under circumstances of extreme security designed to stop specifically such a thing from happening..... sounds like a pretty middling guy to me too.....

[@monjanger]

@@trentsawyer8623 I mean how hard can it be to access the data when it is literally his job to access that data?

[@danielsanderson1810]

@@trentsawyer8623 And he got caught doing it.

[@Hu1ud]

@@danielsanderson1810 no he didn’t, they didn’t know until he leaked it to The Guardian. They had no idea he took any data.

[@gasun1274]

@@danielsanderson1810 he did not, he leaked it and that's how it was known.

[@elephantwaffle5612]

Studying computer science made me realize how uncool it is compared to what I thought it was growing up and seeing hackers in movies

[@nicbentulan]

computer science vs computer engineering vs software engineering though?

[@elephantwaffle5612]

@@nicbentulan all uncool compared to movies

[@MrRushSkies]

Opens Google Chrome in incognito mode...
I used to be a hacker.

[@User-hy6ur]

hahahaaa incognito is bull

[@AJsBRZ]

what my parents think I do when I reset the router

[@HoriaNeagu]

Where are the blinky boxes?

[@adrianofinco]

Horia Neagu someone cybernuked them

[@vlix123]

Adriano Lourenço Well then, only one thing to do...
> start counterstrike

[@EnterpriseKnight]

Servers

[@10713412]

Network switches / servers

[@danm1063]

Good ol green text on black background gotta hack into the matrix

[@sagarsharma3653]

Captain Price- " It's not hard to improve upon garbage. Try that again."

[@hamdankhan319]

He says that only when you've been recommended for 'veteran' difficulty.

[@sweetmelon3365]

i wish more people paid attention to edward snowden and listened to what he said. today we're so far down the rabbit hole

[@beetisushruth3665]

Wait he didnot use stackoverflow?

[@polop2897]

impossible.

[@hycron1234]

The lack of google copy paste is disturbing.

[@trieulieuf9]

0:03 this is the “i am going to fail” face expression

[@shubhampranav]

Thanks, I will use it everyday.

[@byrondowling195]

Bro is probably thinking "why did they even pick me" 😂

[@BeatisMcScoots]

and then the whole CIA testing body stood up and clapped

[@dylankerler3409]

Don’t really understand all of the hate. This scene is pretty realistic. His monitor looks exactly what it would look like irl with 4-5 terminals monitoring network stats of the communication network and another terminal where he’s executing the commands. 5 hours is roughly the amount of time it would take to implement something like this too.
As a software engineer that’s my opinion at least.

[@dirozx]

The dumb music, the generic smart kid dialogue, the incorrect portrayel of Edward Snowden as some next level hackin genius.

[@QuietSnake-xs5vx]

0:17 me when I accidentally knock off the ethernet cable and plug it back into the router
* I'm Edward snowden*

[@andresgarrido406]

I can tell this is legit by the techno music

[@akim424]

Joseph Gordon Levitt just keyboard smashed his way through that test....

[@Boneamps]

Yeah but can he design twitter in 45 minutes like the FANG interviews? or code quicksort my heart?

[@tj8870]

Manager : You have 5 minutes to build a covert communication network in your home city....
Experienced IT Pro : "Downloads Tor. There you go buddy"

[@CNRlegends]

The song played is Next Order by dog blood if anyone cared

[@bien.mp4]

nah its trash hahaha

[@ashfaqrahman2795]

Next round
Reverse a linked list.
*Legend has it Snowden is still solving it*

[@plant_leaf]

Maha churiya joke

[@Dan210871]

Somebody send this kid to my house. My VCR keeps blinking "12:00".

[@user-lq7bp7ue1g]

I don't know anything at all about the story here, the camera work is amazing

[@kellykitkat40]

Five hours ?!! I would have quit right there. Well, it's back to Geek Squad at Best Buy for me. Me so lazy.

[@ABEL-cd2sp]

Kelly KitKat And that's when he knew he had no chance to succeed at life and would forever be a corporate slave

[@keithc1234]

man I love it when it shows percentage in green.

[@ChocoLater1]

Rewatching this as a 35 year old only to remind myself I still don't even know how to reinstall windows from scratch.

[@zijkhal8356]

@@mike.1 came here just to make the same reply :D

[@ChocoLater1]

@@mike.1 too complicated 🤣

[@broomshed]

He nailed Snowden’s voice

[@MontyQueues]

the guy should of said
well this is the part of the movie where im supposed to be in utter shock you finished so fast

[@gamevidzist]

Hacking scene exists:
Movies: let's show black screen with green text and a loader at 99%, huge success

[@GG-nq4qf]

Edward Snowden for a Nobel a peace prize

[@somnorila9913]

Not really. A pardon would suffice. And also some laws to protect people coming out with nasty under the counter stuff like this.

[@hothotheat3000]

Why do all computer hacking scenes have techno music?

[@kiwi_wolf2805]

Snowden was a *Sharepoint Admin*

[@Vulver]

StackOverflow Crtl+C, Crtl+V, 37 minutes o pretending doing something, done. My man.

[@stonewall-mz7yl]

The password is ALWAYS Swordfish

[@sadface]

I've been into this computer shit my whole life and this test sounds completely ridiculous.

[@jeboks777]

But his keyboard isn't RGB. This is far from real-life 😂

[@subverter1.188]

Everyone is sweating there nuts off for centuries when some can do it sitting down in a blink of an eye

[@Blackwater_House]

I once sat a Government Test, the Results of which determined if you got an Interview.
Only the Brightest and Smartest got Interviews, very few got Job Offers.
Hard to compete in that environment and with those expectations.
I absolutely bombed the Test.
Lowest score ever.
Statistical Anomaly, an absolute outrider.
Because My score was so low their curiosity was peeked and I got an Interview.
I also got a Job as an Officer of the Crown embedded into the Australian Military as a Special Placement Officer specialising in Military Planning and Operational Logistics.
The Job lasted 15 Years.

[@nikhilraov100]

He changed the lan connection cable and passed all the unit tests . Well done. U r hired

[@prajwalr7976]

Later you review code you find out he just changed background color light grey

[@rahmcgah5144]

Glad he sided with good and not evil

[@SEPBXBOY]

😂 He should’ve helped out with cyberpunk.

[@mr.fusion9872]

How my mom sees me when i put up google photos on TV

[@neerajmeghani6772]

Dog Blood's music gels so well with this scene.

[@six8031]

Get on to warzone and fix the DMR then Snowden

[@bastijnvos1295]

Not to brag but I once built a HTML site that said hello world in under 38 minutes.
CIA hit me up, I guess you know where I live

[@manuvincent9793]

Yeah but can he say hello world on a white screen.

[@PaddyRoon7]

Idk what movie this is from or how competent Snowden was at his job in real life, so quick question.
It seems from this clip that he is being portrayed as a mega genius, is that realistic? I always assumed that he was an average employee in terms of the abilities of the NSA workforce. Was he actually this talented or are they doing this for dramatic effect?

[@samc5934]

Dramatic effect

[@PaddyRoon7]

@@samc5934 Thought so

[@MrStevenToast]

A gigabyte of RAM should do the trick

[@JohnSmith-tz9vz]

I expect that it will be more reality as it talks about SNOWDEN
he not talk about hacker in teen movies

[@braedensteele3184]

But did they enhance and rotate 180 degrees around the vertical?

[@RaytheonNublinski]

It can hypothesize.

[@KA-eu9sy]

Sound of the chair...says everything.

[@PandaReefNguyen]

I always thought Edward Norton would be a weird choice playing Edward Snowden....

[@dttpr]

So the CIA aptitude test is a DevOps scenario. nice

[@fullstackcoder1234]

He should have used 2 way encryption to speed up the messages

[@Tom-vx7xm]

Okay, I am confused. Tell me if I am wrong:
1 do a nmap sweap to find a outdated Windows machine.
2. Get access to the machine
3. Write a lightwaight erlang program that stores the messages in an ETS
4. Fetch the dets. (The backup part).
5. Delete the program
6. reupload it.
Granted, part 1 and 2 could take a while, depending quite alot on luck.
But the rest, 20 min tops

[@kk8157]

He must be thinking "damn I'm good"

[@rock3tcatU233]

He's not even wearing a hoodie!

[@ralphturner3798]

This film clip is very, very exclusive.

[@Masqueradereality]

that's what she said

[@Akoroush]

This is completely real.

[@SoDamnFrostie]

no dis is a movie, thats jason gordon love-it, in real life the guys name is edward snowman

[@joshrockwell8913]

@@SoDamnFrostie snowden, not snowman its in the name idiot

[@yonoume8747]

You know in reality this isn't what your expecting, did you?

[@andypejman]

Biased or not biased, that is the question

[@joshusqua7561]

That electro dance music

[@Fadbangles]

If you look carefully all the code in the trailer is Lorem Ipsum

[@TituslovesPop]

Snowden , so real they made a Film to explain how legit and real his

[@cadenpyrlik145]

I'm super curious as to why this movie is portraying Snowden as some computer genius super hacker... from what I know, he was pretty average for his peers. Obviously much more intelligent in the field than 99.9% of people on earth, but not when compared to his peers.

[@yasinov1256]

The music 😂 "hAckiNg iN dA cLUb biTcHEz !!"

[@Musician0489]

Lol remember in the movie Swordfish when computer hacking was a bunch of cubes on a screen that made a bigger cube when you "hacked" properly?

[@cmac2256]

He was a contractor with system admin privileges...he had access to everything ..he didn't hack anything..NSA did it for him

[@korikibou2177]

That was what had been shown in the movie

[@CoderDmitri]

in case people wonder HOW he did it... stackoverflow -> ctrl + C -> ctrl + V = done! izi life.... dunno what took him 40 minutes... jeez...

[@blindsquirrel7802]

Liked the movie, but the implications scared me.

[@thoughtsspace974]

Iconic movie scene.

[@AMJLBCA773]

I feel like I've seen those glasses somewhere...it's weird

[@LexaSkye]

-autoexec hackermans

[@baileyjohn150]

Mans just did that and im struggling to download more ram bruh

[@RoyalHondo]

How my parents see me turning off and on the wifi when it goes slow. ☠️

[@Sarnt_T]

Snowden was a hero. Can't change my mind.

[@476megaman]

But he didn't say "I'm in"

[@santos.l.halper1999]

I think he must have used a back door to attack the mainframe...

[@InvestBetter.]

Yeah, don't disrespect him!
38 minutes.....