IMO the absolute worst example of technology portrayed in a movie would have to be Jurassic Park. When that 12-year old girl sat down in front of an Apple computer and looked at a VMRL (3D) "interface" of the network and said "I recognize this. This is a UNIX system!", I nearly blew my popcorn right out of my pants.

I especially liked the concept of a visual backdoor . I mean come on, a little icon down in the corner of a rendered HTML file that just links to another page where you have "access" to the system? It's been so long since I've seen it, so that's about all I remember, but I remember it being asinine beyond belief.

The account is encrypted with a 1024bit cipher. Even I can't break through the firewall.

Bad guy boss: This thing is encrypted, can you get in? Bad guy hacker: It has 2 Megabytes of RAM, I have 512 Megabytes, it will take 5 seconds.

I always thought the aliens used Windows, seeing how easy it was for them to get hacked. They must not have applied the "Outlook causes shields to go down" patch.