So, I have been following this show and it's supposedly very accurate to the world of hacking that television have ever manage to produce. First a little detail about the show:
Mr. Robot
Plot from IMDb:
Follows a young computer programmer (Malek) who suffers from social anxiety disorder and forms connections through hacking. He's recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot.
Premise (from Wiki):
The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at Allsafe as a cyber security engineer. Elliot has social anxiety disorder, but connects to people by hacking them and acts as a cyber vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious social-anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hackers, known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to take down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot), a company that Elliot is paid to protect.
Representational poster:
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In the first episode, Elliot
To get an idea about how real hacking is portrayed in this show, lets read this quote from an article on Wired:
Elliot uses various methods to hack into people's digital life. He uses social engineer to get access to people's Facebook profiles. In later episodes, a girl uses IRC to chat on a channel on one of Freenode's servers. Sadly she's kicked and banned.
Elliot believes that how much secure you make the networks, in the end the weakest link in the chain will be humans. And it is these humans, which Elliot hacks to get access to any info that he wants. Incredible show. Great attention to details!
Imdb: Mr. Robot (TV Series 2015? ) - IMDb
Wiki: hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_%28TV_series%29
Excellent Article on Wired that lists down whats good and what's bad in the show so far: Mr. Robot Is the Best Hacking Show Yet?But It's Not Perfect | WIRED
Mr. Robot
Plot from IMDb:
Follows a young computer programmer (Malek) who suffers from social anxiety disorder and forms connections through hacking. He's recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot.
Premise (from Wiki):
The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at Allsafe as a cyber security engineer. Elliot has social anxiety disorder, but connects to people by hacking them and acts as a cyber vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious social-anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hackers, known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to take down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot), a company that Elliot is paid to protect.
Representational poster:
*ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTE0Mjc1MTk2MjFeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDk2NzI4MDYx._V1_SX214_AL_.jpg
In the first episode, Elliot
To get an idea about how real hacking is portrayed in this show, lets read this quote from an article on Wired:
In the pilot episode’s opening scene, Elliot tells the kiddie-porn purveyor that although the guy used the Tor network to anonymize his online activity and encrypt his traffic, the exit nodes in Tor bleed plaintext unless the sender encrypts the data end-to-end—he who controls the exit nodes controls the traffic. There are also references to Gnome, Linux, rootkits and .DAT files.
Elliot uses various methods to hack into people's digital life. He uses social engineer to get access to people's Facebook profiles. In later episodes, a girl uses IRC to chat on a channel on one of Freenode's servers. Sadly she's kicked and banned.
Elliot believes that how much secure you make the networks, in the end the weakest link in the chain will be humans. And it is these humans, which Elliot hacks to get access to any info that he wants. Incredible show. Great attention to details!
Imdb: Mr. Robot (TV Series 2015? ) - IMDb
Wiki: hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_%28TV_series%29
Excellent Article on Wired that lists down whats good and what's bad in the show so far: Mr. Robot Is the Best Hacking Show Yet?But It's Not Perfect | WIRED