Voice print oddity (and rant)

Why would they have a set sentence for voice print identification?

(It takes some restraint not to comment how silly the sentence is)

Wouldn't that be kind of stupid and also a security risk (for the reasons shown in the movie)?

I mean, if you are going to have a voice print security like that, why not have someone say a RANDOM sentence, instead of the same, exact sentence every time? I mean, we are talking about a talking human being here, he can surely read ANY piece of text fluently and with confidence.

Even with the more primitive speech recognition systems of 1992, this should not have been any kind of a problem. Heck, even ONE random word would be better than a long sentence that always stays the same!

But then again, this movie ALSO has the typical hollywood-ism of having a motion-blurred, unclear, low-resolution VCR video still image first zoomed into, and then the details of the zoomed area "enhanced" to a crisp, perfect, motion-blur-free photo that is seemingly the product of a professional photographer, with perfect lighting and focus in high resolution (at least considering the resolution of the zoomed area).

It's like taking a lores photo of a wall from 20 meters away, and then taking that picture, and by "zooming and enhancing", managing to bring out a perfectly detailed banana fly where you can see the hair on its little legs and posing perfectly for the camera in perfect lighting.

This is one of those movies that anyone with even one IQ point more than the mass audience it's surely aimed for, will groan .. again, and again, and keep groaning, until the very groan-inducing ending.

WHY can't they EVER get any computer stuff right? Sure, they had one tiny 'hacking-scene' shown pretty realistically in one of the 'The Matrix' sequels (though they don't deserve to be called that), and "War Games" had some realistic parts, and in some other movies I think I have seen some pretty realistic-looking stuff here and there, but why is it so often like this, especially in a movie, that's pretty much ABOUT technology, hacking, social engineering, etc..

Maybe they should have paid the 'expert' real money instead of just arranging his wife to meet Robert Redford.

I would love to see a movie with realistic computer scenes throughout, without any kind of hollywood-stupidity like this. I mean, enough with the stupid huge-lettered, red, blinking "ACCESS DENIED" notifications (and similarly the equally stupid and huge-lettered, green, blinking, "ACCESS GRANTED" notifications) and this "let's take two pixels, zoom and enhance and see lots of detail in high resolution!"-stupidity.

It's like there are no actual computer users living in hollywood. Otherwise, I can't explain why otherwise almost credible movies have these AWFULLY moronic computer parts that probably even some of the more awakened masses wouldn't be fooled by anymore. I mean, surely SOMEONE must start questioning some of these stupidities by now!

There is absolutely NO NEED for the computer bits to be this stupid! Especially in a movie supposedly made for "hackers" (which used to mean 'computer hobbyists' and the like).