Reminds me of Coffee Stain Studio’s trailer for the release of Goat MMO Simulator:

https://youtu.be/WAm5yxQA_HY

True on the digit by digit code decryption. That I can forgive in the name of building tension and “counting down” in a visible way for the movie viewer. “When will it have the launch code?!” “In either 7 nano seconds or 12 years…”

If they had been more accurate, it would have looked like the Bender xmas execution scene from Futurama:

https://www.youtube.com/v/aRdRZ6TKo4s?t=25s

I did like the fact that they showed war-dialing and doing research to find a way into the system. It’s also interesting that they showed some secure practices, like the fact there was no banner identifying the system or OS, giving less info to a would be hacker. Granted, now a days it would have the official DoD banner identifying it as a DoD system.

I remember with Windows 95, LAN Manager passwords were hashed in two 7 digit sections which made extracting user password from the password hash file trivial:

https://techgenix.com/how-cracked-windows-password-part1/

Looks like it was worse than I remember. The passwords were first converted to all upper case first!

Other sources:

https://apnews.com/article/intel-tower-semiconductors-china-regulators-104796a6602e8eef533f07c6af0f7d6b

Intel said that the deal was terminated “due to the inability to obtain in a timely manner the regulatory approvals required under the merger agreement.”

The deal required approval from a number of regulators worldwide, including those in China. Chinese regulators failed to approve the deal by a deadline Wednesday, even after Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger traveled to China last month in a bid to win them over.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-walk-away-54-bln-acquisition-tower-semiconductor-sources-2023-08-16/

I’m not sure as the why as I don’t see a Tower Semiconductor foundry in China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants

Edit: They have an office in China

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/business/intel-tower-semiconductor-china.html

Also

https://towersemi.com/about/history/

There’s even more details on other news articles. The guy was making explicit threats to a lot of people:

"I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!!” he wrote

"The time is right for a presidential assassination or two,” Robertson reportedly wrote in a September 2022 Facebook post. “First Joe then Kamala!!!”

"Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can be sure to have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again,” he wrote in one post.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/08/09/who-was-craig-roberston-utah-man-shot-dead-in-fbi-raid/amp/