The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.
Going down a rabbit hole (because I help coordinate control access/ campus security design at work and this is interesting to me)
If you look at the ENCOM key card IDs all the characters (and background characters) have, they do not have a bar code, it's only their photos and name on the front. (Also, note that Ed is the only character that doesn't wear his ID card because he's a diva and it doesn't match his outfit lol)
For context, swipe key cards were invented in the 70's and RFID/ proximity cards were available to the mainstream in 1983. (Googled a few articles)
There is no card required to access the elevator or certain floors on-screen. You'd think R&D/ laser bay would be the most top secret one, but Alan just pushes the button with no pretense. There's a giant door outside, but technically, any stranger/ visitor might be able to just walk in the lobby and then take the elevator down. HOWEVER, this may be a special elevator core, as it's directly attached to Ed's office.
Here's the actual floor plan of 1150 S Olive Street, LA where the movie was filmed, elevators circled. Ed's office scenes were not shot at this building, as the catty-cornered pair of elevators are not on the plan.
Travel guide to filming locations for Tron (1982), in Los Angeles.
When they're opening the big door, we see Lora take something out of her pocket and put it up to the door, but it's too dark to see if it's a type of card or physical key
After Lora says "I don't think I'm cleared for this"- implying it's an individual key assigned to her like her ID card- (which doesn't make sense because she works in the laser bay) Flynn puts his hacking device up to the door to open it.
But it seems to be cracking a passkey/ set of numbers instead of a bar code/ scan
When the gang gets inside, they are not wearing any of their ID badges. The guard doesn't care and just asks if they're "working late"
There are cameras in several places including the laser bay and cubicle farm.
Ed's office is interesting. And most of what we see is probably a personal decision: considering the bad stuff he's doing, I don't think it's company security. He has two cameras up on the soffits directly pointed at his desk and one in elevator hall.
Also, He has Peter watching his office when he's not there AND some form of access control that allows him to select "enter" or "do not enter when someone is approaching his office (calling back to the special elevator theory from earlier). Ed seemed to have caught on to the lack of company security and made his own....
In conclusion, It seems like it would be very easy to sneak into ENCOM and steal hardware. I don't think Flynn had to be a genius to figure that out (aside from log in credentials to access the terminals) just from what we see in the movie that literally occurs on-screen.
feel like the worst part of late stage capitalism and reinventing logos is it's been happening to bands since the 2010s
You want a plain t shirt with just the classic band logo?
no. we have those horrible female cut tissue thin shirts covered in psychedelic flowers and a bunch of neon colors. You want a plain black unisex t shirt with just the band logo in white?? that's not inventive enough
(i'm going to be forced buy it from a bootleg website and it's going to feel like a plastic pool tarp)
I feel my friend group shifting into something that's really good. removing the people who try to take energy away from me instead of reciprocating it with me
You are allowed to find things hot in theory while also never wanting to actually do them in real life btw. You can get off on whatever wild shit in your imagination and still prefer to be very vanilla in real life. Or not want to have sex at all in real life. You don't owe the universe anything in exchange for your dirty mind.
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