Batman Hacked My Password: A Subtitle-Based Analysis of Password Depiction in Movies
summary
Subtitle scan of 97,709 movies and manual review of scenes from 2,851 films finds 5,982 occurrences of “password”; password managers appear in one film and MFA only seven times. Movies show lots of reuse and sharing, depict guessing with a ~47% success rate and hacking/social attacks with ~81% success, and include both very weak and surprisingly strong passwords while password strength has little effect on on-screen attack outcomes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Password depiction in movies
- 1:00Movies influence password behavior
- 2:02Movie subtitle database
- 3:05Password frequency by genre
- 3:48Common password behaviors
- 5:14Password attacks realism
- 7:44Password strength in movies
- 9:28Password strength impact
- 9:49Conclusions and recommendations
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