Eames (Kathryn Erbe) is busy trying to guess the password to gain entry to a suspect's computer. She demonstrates her amazing knowledge of Defensive Programminhg Practices when she declares:

Once you've guessed wrong three times, these security programs usually give you a hint.

And yes, after three bad guesses, they are given a clue, in the form of a latin word, which Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) correctly recognises as the name of a variety of octopus. The password then, is 'octopus'. They are in.

I don't know who is more to blame for this security blunder -- the shell programmers who give out hints to attackers, or the user who used a common English word as a password. Have they never heard of dictionary attacks? Either way, I think criminals have to seriously upgrade their security protocols.

And don't get me started on 'the DaVinci Code' -- 'Apple?' 'Apple?!'

(p.s. here's an older complaint about technical flaws in Law & Order.)