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What Virus Was Uploaded Into the Ship in Independence Day

'Independence Day' Producer Finally Explains Infamously Inept Hacking Scene

  • Jeff Goldblum
  • American screenwriter, producer, television director and former actor
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Now that an Independence Mean solar day sequel is in the works, writer and producer Dean Devlin wants to articulate up some confusion about the offset motion picture's infamously goofy reckoner-virus scene. Fans of the 1996 sci-fi blockbuster will recollect that Jeff Goldblum, playing MIT-trained estimator expert David Levinson, thwarts an entire alien invasion by sending a virus from his Mac PowerBook to infect their spaceships. During his Reddit AMA on Sunday, Devlin was asked a question that countless Independence Twenty-four hours viewers accept pondered over the years: How was a human being reckoner virus able to infect the aliens computers?

Certain plenty, the screenwriter had an caption. "Okay: what Jeff Goldblum's character discovered was that the programming structure of the alien ship was a binary code," Devlin replied. "And as any beginning programmer can tell yous, binary code is a series of ones and zeroes. What Goldblum's character did was turn the ones into zeroes and the zeroes into ones, effectively reversing the code that was sent."

Well, that explains that. Simply one matter: how did Goldblum'south 1995 laptop, with its 8MB hard drive, have enough memory to transmit a virus to an entire fleet of spaceships? Likewise, since this was years before high-speed Wi-Fi, how did he connect his calculator to the alien ships in the first place? And wouldn't the aliens have some kind of firewall to protect themselves from archaic human estimator viruses? Okay, really, Devlin's explanation doesn't really clear anything up. Only he says it with such conviction that we have to give him props. (There's likewise a deleted scene that made the whole hacking scheme seem a little more than plausible.)

Devlin is currently working on the Independence Day sequel, coming to theaters on July 4, 2016. In the AMA, he admitted that he "had to practice a pretty large rewrite" when Will Smith decided not to sign on. "I was really hoping to make the movie with Will, merely after some serious consideration, he decided it wasn't right for him to do," said Devlin. "So new writers were brought in, who adjusted my script, and evolved it. But you volition be excited to know there are some favorites from the flick returning." While Devlin doesn't confirm the identity of those "favorites," Goldblum has said that his character will return in the sequel. We can't wait to meet what David Levinson uses to hack the aliens this time. An iPod Shuffle, perhaps?

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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/independence-day-producer-explains-hacking-scene-104676447332.html