Isn't a lot of hacking mobile these days? I guess that hasn't trickled down yet. Or wouldn't be relevant to this show.
Damn. Superlurker.Ditto. I knew of a few who spent time looking for psychedelics and nootropics, etc. It was their glitch to be tokers and experimenters.
Smart though. ( first time I'd heard that pi soundtrack...) and usually, more insane than stable. I'd probably expect to see them in a cheap suit and a minivan, driving their kids around the suburbs, it was the quirky 90s when hacking was aligned with counterculture, etc. Naive days.
At times, Mr Robot seems more like a 90s story script, updated 20+ years with current events and ideas. There's some dated hacker references, mostly the scripts used to dictionary cracking, and the ransomware/ RAT on a CDr.
They just need a flip phone to show up, or a pager.
There was some smartphone hacking in last night's ep.Isn't a lot of hacking mobile these days? I guess that hasn't trickled down yet. Or wouldn't be relevant to this show.
Your comments on drug usage are on point. I know a decent amount of people in the InfoSec universe and most did some kind of drugs as a teenager. The whole "hacker culture" was largely started by people who largely didn't fit in with normal society, hated rules, and were naturally curious. It's changing somewhat but the effects still linger.
Ditto. I knew of a few who spent time looking for psychedelics and nootropics, etc. It was their glitch to be tokers and experimenters.
Smart though. ( first time I'd heard that pi soundtrack...) and usually, more insane than stable. I'd probably expect to see them in a cheap suit and a minivan, driving their kids around the suburbs, it was the quirky 90s when hacking was aligned with counterculture, etc. Naive days.
At times, Mr Robot seems more like a 90s story script, updated 20+ years with current events and ideas. There's some dated hacker references, mostly the scripts used to dictionary cracking, and the ransomware/ RAT on a CDr.
They just need a flip phone to show up, or a pager.
I feel like I would have naturally been in the black hat scene if I challenged myself to learn more - it fits everything about me in many ways. I could still get into that - I've been curious about following the cybersecurity wave. lol
Your comments on drug usage are on point. I know a decent amount of people in the InfoSec universe and most did some kind of drugs as a teenager. The whole "hacker culture" was largely started by people who largely didn't fit in with normal society, hated rules, and were naturally curious. It's changing somewhat but the effects still linger.
I am still puzzled by how this got picked up for another season.
I am still puzzled by how this got picked up for another season.
The only reason is, there is absolutely nothing else on at that time period that isn't a rerun.
Something seemed to click from the pictures he was looking at.I love the show personally. There's the constant internal conflict you get from the narration and I've always had a fondness for good narration. Probably comes from having watched so many documentaries.
And the last episode was really good. The human engineering that enables so many hacks is something that generally gets overlooked in bs shows like CSI Cyber. Most of the time you watch stories like that and just shake your head. It's one thing to suspend disbelief when it's not a major component of the story and something else entirely when it IS the story.
Having said that, some of the scenes were a little over the top. It made the people they were hacking look like cardboard cutouts. But sometimes you need to compress a plotline so the story doesn't turn into a drawn out build up of the events leading to the action. Making some of the peripheral characters caricatures can serve that purpose.
One point that escaped me in the last episode was how the guy in jail figured out who set him up. Is he just taking a wild guess or was there something I missed?
I like the tribute to Tyrell corporation from Blade Runner.Something seemed to click from the pictures he was looking at.
One question I have is what was the point of the security guards that had Tyrell sign something? Was it just simply a plot device to rattle Elliot or was Tyrell signing off on responsibility for letting Elliot stay on premises or something else?
I like the show, but I don't like that it was picked up for another season. It was originally conceptualized as a single movie. I wanted the plot resolution of a limited run series. Feels like it will just get drug out now, indefinitely. I'm growing really tired of shows like that.
I was sick this weekend, so I ended up watching a little bit of the Mr. Robot marathon (especially the pilot), and then some of the Walking Dead season 1 reruns. Reminded me of how much better the dramatic tension was early on. Don't drag these stories out. It just ruins them.
Mr. Robot is only good because True Detective season 2 sucked so much
Good title sequence in ep9, and especially liked the set design for the 90's computer store.
Still enjoying the show and it feels like they have a good measure of their audience, just after this episodes reveal Elliott says to the audience "you knew it all along didn't you?", which of course we did.
Looking forward to the final episode, its been an unexpected piece of enjoyable TV this year.