ENCOM is a computer corporation featured in the movies TRON and TRON: Legacy. See also Edit. ENCOM on the Tron Wiki; Trivia Edit. A street bench in the episode 'Welcome to Storybrooke' in Once Upon A Time has a 1983 advertisement for ENCOM personal computers. Tron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. The film stars Jeff Bridges as a computer programmer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with programs in his attempt to escape.

Master Control Program:
I've got a little challenge for you, Sark - a new recruit. He's a tough case, but I want him treated in the usual manner. Train him for the games.. let him hope for a while.. and blow him away.

Sark:
You've got it. I've been hopin' you'd send me somebody with a little more guts.. what kind of program is he?

The third option comes when the player chooses to knock out Gail, only to go after Dr. Kirk, causing Gail to die in the process; or knock Gail out, forcing him to escape the island without capturing Dr. At one point.: In the end of the first Dino Crisis, Regina must choose between helping a mortally wounded Gail (Regina's commanding officer) apprehend the renegade scientist Dr. Dino crisis characters.

Master Control Program:
He's not any kind of program, Sark. He's a User.

Sark:
A user?

Master Control Program:
That's right. He pushed me.. in the other world. Somebody pushes me, I push back. So I brought him down here.. What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.

Sark:
Well, I - it's just - I don't know, a User, I mean.. Users wrote us. A User even wrote you..

Master Control Program:
No one User wrote me. I'm worth a couple million of their man-years!

Sark:
But-what if I can't..?

Master Control Program:
You rather take your chances with me? Want me to slow down your power cycles for you?

Sark:
Wait.. I need that..

Master Control Program:
Then pull yourself together. Get this clown trained. I want him in the Games until he dies playing. Acknowledge.

Sark:
Acknowledged, Master Control..

Master Control Program:
End of line.

The usage of computers in movies has always been quite hit and miss. The Matrix Reloaded movie had realistic depictions of the usage of the NMAP port scanning command and the use of the ssh command to login remotely to the target machine and execute commands to shutdown the power plants to buy the keymaster enough time so that Neo could visit the Architect. The ssh port scanner command is very useful for analysing a local or remote machine for open ports that could be a security hole. The nmap security scanner is a very popular tool to check machines; but it is used by malicious people as well. The point though is that once you have secured your machine and you have implemented a proper security procedure to deal with unwarranted intrusions, the threat posed by the many Internet threats that are growing day-to-day should not be the danger that the media dramatizations make it out to be. The Matrix movie was quite an amazing cinematic experience when it was first released; the idea of a virtual reality world inhabited by the collective consciousness of humanity that are unaware that the entire world is just a simulation is something that could be a reality; but the unbearable fact is that the humans could be nothing but a brain in a jar and they would have no body and nothing to escape the Matrix in.

Matrix ssh login to the Matrix computers.

using the nmap commands used in the Matrix movie in real life results in a useful output. This command is used against the facebook.com website and it seems to be running on the super secure OpenBSD UNIX operating system. The sshnuke command Trinity used to break into the UNIX servers in the movie was a program she wrote herself using a known exploit present in the ssh package at that time. Some movies show ridiculous things on computers; the Tron Legacy movie with the ENCOM UNIX operating system that the company developed was another movie that got the use of computers right. The ps -ef and kill -9 commands are correct; the computer user is trying to stop a malicious program that is running on a UNIX computer using a cool touch keyboard. This keyboard has been built using what looks like two iPads; quite an expensive keyboard indeed, unless you work at Apple. But it is a similar concept, but I prefer a proper keyboard. The project used the create the Tron Legacy touch keyboard is available and worth trying if you have the hardware. Now all you need is the leaked ENCOM operating system and you are good to go.

The ps -ef command used in Tron Legacy. This is what it does on my machine; looking for all instances of su .

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