TV villain armed missiles with open source

distro_dave

Help me recognize a tv-series or a movie, AND an open sourced project: The tv-series (or a movie) had a villain hacking a missile system of some sort. The program code was briefly shown on-screen, with a commented section "MISSILES ARMED" (or something similar). The funny part is, the original author of that (open sourced) code recognized this programming, and submitted "missiles armed" comment right back into the version control of his code. He...

Originally asked by diynevala on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Ok, thanks to John Sensebe's awesome link http://moviecode.tumblr.com/ , I was able to find the TV series: Strike Back , and the project really was WordPress! I really had a blurry memories of this, as the text was actually "WEAPON LOCKED": http://www.viper007bond.com/2010/06/12/so-apparently-wordpress-can-guide-missiles/ The version control commit is here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/15239

Full answer by diynevala: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/50887 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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