'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
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#2I would be interested to see if the downloads of Kali Linux have shown any significant spike since Season 2.0 was released.
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#3I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland.
The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good.
Th music, the timing of title screen and the font used. I love it all.
Re: 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
#4I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland. The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good. Th music, the timing of title screen and the…
The easter eggs and hidden details are great too.
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#5I didn't watch second season yet, but first season isn't "too real" for me. But it is still a good highly fictional show.
Re: 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
#6I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland. The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good. Th music, the timing of title screen and the…
The easter eggs and hidden details are great too.
Yeah the "learned from guy named Sam while learning VB" (vague to avoid spoilers) was the most recent one I remember.
Re: 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
#7I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland. The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good. Th music, the timing of title screen and the…
I don't agree, before even reaching the middle of S01 it was pretty obvious that what "twist" will be in the end. (Obv. hiding for spoilers)
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#8I love this show. Haven't been excited about a show like this since The Wire. Not because it is "real" in the same way that The Wire is, but because it is so fresh and challenging. There are points where things go wildly left-field, but it's not predictable. Even the first season twist, which is fairly predictable depending on what movies you've seen, is preceded and followed by other twists.
The second season has veered quite dramatically from the first season, and part of me misses the hacking-focused plots (particularly the realistic handling of social engineering). But I can't fault the creator for avoiding expectations, even if the show's pace feels slower (apparently he had both seasons planned out before he started).
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#9I didn't watch second season yet, but first season isn't "too real" for me. But it is still a good highly fictional show.
I only watched a few episodes, but the whole "She needs to learn to hack in 24 hours" bullshit was a little too much for me. Everything she was doing could have been a script. There was 0 reason to have her punching in commands like that, and either way that's simply using Linux.
'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4 and at least that was entertaining.
Re: 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
#10I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland. The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good. Th music, the timing of title screen and the…
I don't agree, before even reaching the middle of S01 it was pretty obvious that what "twist" will be in the end. (Obv. hiding for spoilers)
Yeah, not only that but it was also very unoriginal. Straight up lifted from two particular movies in fact.