December 16. Long before Milind Soman caused hulchul by running nude on beach, he was the hero of the great “December 16”. Very few movies can concoct such a twisted tale of international intrigue, cybersecurity and wooden acting

Gulshan Grover in order to take revenge on India for 1971 smuggles in a Russian “missile” which apparently will launch itself out of the box. The pwd is apparently in the code and it is cleverly hacked by a boy, the Wolf Gupta of his times, by connecting his laptop to the missile

The hacker connects his laptop to the missile using a VGA cable (the mission helpfully provides him that) and then he runs his “laptop” to hack the password. It’s obvious the Russians did not hash the password, they kept it as a constant string in the code.

The pwd is revealed to be “dulhan ki bidaai ka waqt badalna hai”, which showed that Grover knew to use passphrases rather “badman123”. The twist is that this is not a text password but a voice password, and the animated display exported from missile makes it clear.

Now some may wonder how the missile is interpreting voice commands, but it obviously is. It’s then that Danny tricks Gulshan Grover into saying the words out loud, which Grover obligingly does, knowing fully well that is his password.