- Stat searches through the compiled binary data in ASCII format, which is an unreadable jumble of characters and symbols. Among it, she happens to find plain-language scripting code that she can manipulate. This is an unlikely series of events. A competent programmer (Jesse, the anarchist) looking to prevent tampering would not have left parts of the program in plain scripting language, and a hacker would not have assumed he had done so. A hacker would generally have to browse and edit the data in HEX format.
- Stat attempts to affect an already-running program by editing its source code while it's running, which is generally not possible. Without being able to shut down and restart the program, a hacker would generally write and start a new program to run simultaneously and intercept events.
- Stat is evidently able to use the "taskkill" command to end and restart the program rather easily and with no consequence, which should not have been possible if Jesse is as competent a computer programmer as we're led to believe. Ending the program should not have been easy, or else it should have triggered a failsafe.
- Furthermore, instead of using "taskkill" to end the program and leave it dead, she apparently uses it to restart the program with her edits in place. An analogy would be stopping a runaway train in order to switch it to a track where it won't cause damage, and then sending it on its way again. Rather, if you could stop it, you would simply leave it stopped, rather than sending it off again.
In response to several comments noting the display of a Windows prompt on the Mac/iPhone that Stat is using, the filmmakers state (via Facebook, see URL below) that the program is actually running on Jesse's Windows PC, which is in an undisclosed location. The iPhone is only monitoring that program. Stat hacks into the iPhone, which then allows her to further hack into Jesse's remote Windows PC, whereupon she uses its Windows command prompt to affect the actual program.
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Problems not addressed by the filmmakers' response include:
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Problems not addressed by the filmmakers' response include:
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