When that first showed in theaters in the bay area, people cheered and clapped when she was using Nmap and SSH Nuke. Non tech folks were probably a little confused.
It was a relatively recent exploit, I remember being at an RSA conference when the remote ssh exploit was announced and everyone’s pager started going off and people hustled out of there. Fun times!
I remember people started probing pretty quickly, too, which was a good warning that you couldn’t be complacent about things like that. If memory serves, we’d upgraded most of our servers to only support SSH-2 before this happened and since that included our public shell servers (.edu) nobody broke in to anything but we did have to badger some proprietary vendors for updates to devices which were fortunately on our restricted internal-only network.
