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Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg

639 points by tilt 10y ago

jboogy 10y ago
This is great. Nice job!
jfaucett 10y ago
Thats really good detective work. I was not expecting this much attention to detail at all - even after season one seemingly surpassed every film/tv show in history on that account. I will definitely be screen pausing for the rest of this season myself now.
hmate9 10y ago
Really nice! But Mr Robot is something I won't watch anymore. It is just too weird and slow at this point.
- lucio 10y ago
  I saw it until it became too sad and depressing. Are joy and triumph not good for plots? Why not a character like Mike from "Suits"?
  - masmullin 10y ago
    > Why not a character like Mike from "Suits"? Suits already has a character like Mike from Suits. The characters name is, surprisingly, named Mike. If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits.
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    - gunnihinn 10y ago
      > If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits. And it follows that the space of sitcoms is a singleton. That explains a lot.
  - 67726e 10y ago
    I dunno, I certainly like the show. Maybe it's just the general malaise I'm feeling, but it's certainly poking at many of the things I feel are wrong in the world. God knows, if it were possible to accomplish what they did in season 1 I would have been more than on board.
  - blahi 10y ago
    Because suits is laughably unrealistic?
- abledon 10y ago
  I want a sci-fi show about an engineering team that debugs and deploys fleets of robots/organic aliens inside the bloodstream of a giant space whale creature in which, humanity itself is living on some sort of floating enclosed solarsystem bubble. They would have standup meetings each day (ever second episode) and you would see how a large organization would operate efficiently using something similar to Nexus-Scrum.
  - vacri 10y ago
    > Nexus-Scrum I'm now at my third company where I'm the only techie that thinks internal code names are useful and everyone else just uses very generic terms like 'the app'. And when a second app is made, they all seem oblivious to the amount of time wasted in describing which app is which in nearly every damn bug or feature request. Given that I'm the only ops guy and I have to package this stuff, I give them a damn name and that proliferates back through the rest of the techs. Anyway, the point of this comment is that the latest thing to come my way was a notification service called 'notification service', a seven-syllable horror that will cause confusion with another service that sends notifications, and it does things other than notify (it'll touch and mediate a few things over the network). I said "Can we please call it 'nexus' - because every company needs a bit of software somewhere called 'nexus'" :) As a bonus, today I set up the first nexus server, for testing...
    - calgoo 10y ago
      Yea, Im on the other end of the spectrum: So IDP integrates with SN, OHS, ADP, RDC, Xym. The support is managed by the SSD, DC2 (and many, many more....). I think the Project and Product managers make these up to prove they are doing something productive. So many acronyms, and no documentation except the main project docs. So you need to read a mountain of documentation to even know what people are talking about. Even better when you have IDP, ADP, EDP etc and people from several different countries trying to pronounce all of these correctly.
      - vacri 10y ago
        My personal naming rules are "one unemotive word, two syllables max, with clear unambiguous spelling and pronunciation". Maybe go to three syllables if it's really fitting. Generally the name is not meant to reflect the function - the point is to be memorable, not descriptive (and not customer facing). This being said, I'm a small company guy, so I haven't run into the need for amazing amounts of acronyms or product names (I'm not sure how far my rules would stretch...) My favourite shortening was a netadmin friend of mine who worked at a bank a while back, describing coding schemes for network hardware: "blah blah ethernet concentrator blah address blah city makes XXXECO1" => "What's an 'ethernet concentrator'?" => "Is it a switch? Is it a hub? Is it (*rattles of a couple of other things I can't recall)? Who cares? They do similar things in the grand scheme..." And shorten down to a clear 'EC' to cover them all.
- vacri 10y ago
  I'm a bit the same. It was really enjoyable, and then just bogged down at the end of the first season, with an amazingly trope-ish 'twist'. I think the lead actor is outstanding, being able to convey 'numb at the world' rather than just 'unexpressive/emotionless', but yeah, it's just too slow. And when push comes to shove, while it's great to see actual tech in action, it doesn't actually matter that much to the story. As long as the characters aren't doing things that actively break immersion (blue ribbon award goes to NCIS having two people type on the same keyboard...), it doesn't matter to me so much if the 'hack' is real or not.
  - calgoo 10y ago
    My favorite hacking scene is still from Scorpions (well there are two, the one below and the one where they are hacking a jet, with a RJ45 cable, from a car while landing). "We need to hack NORAD!" Guy reaches for keyboard (without touching it), "Done!". Sarcasm apart, while Mr.Robot has good tech, I got bored by the story line around episode 4 or 5. I think it was just too slow for my taste. Edit: Link to first "Hack" mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEb8zKfPBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEb8zKfPBo Edit2: Link to the double keyboard NCIS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
    - freyir 10y ago
      They should tie in a plot line about how our consumption culture has obliterated our attention spans and made us dependent on constant stimuli.
      - voltagex_ 10y ago
        There is a fantastic short (scifi) story about consumption/attention economies taken to their logical conclusion on SomethingAwful (I think), but I can't find it right now.
        freyir 10y ago
        I'd google it but I've already lost interest.
jaegerpicker 10y ago
This show is amazing IMO. It's like a love letter to all those late nights when I was 15 and glued to my freebsd box until unhealthly late hours!
outofstep 10y ago
Love this show bc it's like Fight Club meets Hackers. Can't wait to watch the full season
- jboy 10y ago
  Fight Club meets Hackers meets American Psycho, with a soundtrack like The Social Network.
partisan 10y ago
I am probably going to wait for the season to complete so I can binge watch. Am I the only one? My big concern is all of the media and spoilers that surround these popular shows. Why do I know who died in Orange is the New Black? Why does Google think I need this as part of my news feed that I check only once or twice a day because I just need the most important news items.
- eddieroger 10y ago
  I watch live for that reason. There aren't many shows that I do that for, but this is one, and Game of Thrones is the big other one. But I agree that the media spoils too much, though it's not unexpected - spoilers and discussions get big clicks these days.
  - mobweb 10y ago
    I feel like I can one-up you on this. Here in Switzerland, the day after some popular shows in the US have ended (for example Breaking Bad, or a GoT season finale), some daily newspapers print two page spreads with all the spoilers from "last night's" episode - despite the fact that 100% of their readers are legally unable to watch that episode for probably another couple of months. And even those that do follow the show through non-legal channels probably haven't downloaded the episode yet, since it has aired in the middle of the night for us.
    - ufo 10y ago
      To mitigate this problem, I wrote some custom CSS with Stilish to block the "TV news" section of the online newspapers I visit most often.
- grogenaut 10y ago
  Agreed. I have the same problem with Google news and now and sports scores... I don't see why they're treated as general news... why can't it be more like books where time shifting has always existed and conversations have always been deferred. And yes I understand the legacy with sports news but we've evolved damnit!
avs733 10y ago
>AdobeTracking.showSiteFeature = 'Mr. Robot : S2 Easter Egg Sites'; [view-source:http://www.evil-corp-usa.com/ http://www.evil-corp-usa.com/] Sites I get the feeling this will be ongoing...makes the show more fun and a little interactive
- SurrealSoul 10y ago
  they actually had a really cool ARG before S02ep01, the winners got a really cool sweatshirt
Cengkaruk 10y ago
Tell me where Tyrell is...
- 50CNT 10y ago
  I just binge watched the show a couple of days ago. Remember how Elliot stashes the gun given to him by Darlene in the popcorn machine instead of taking it to the meeting with white lotus? When Elliot shows Tyrell the Fsociety space, that same popcorn machine starts making popcorn. I sincerely doubt Elliot turned on the machine just for popcorn.
  - rudolf0 10y ago
    There's no doubt he was reaching for the gun. You can see him sticking his hand in there and digging around. One fan tinfoil theory is that he killed Tyrell and the last two episodes have been him sitting in a jail cell. I don't really buy that, but he probably did shoot or try to shoot someone.
    - andrewpi 10y ago
      The voice on the phone at the end of s02e02 is Tyrell though. He's obviously on the run somewhere; most likely overseas.
      - rudolf0 10y ago
        Yes, but remember Elliot is a very unreliable narrator, and that's definitely a scene from his perspective. I still think Tyrell is alive and was really on the phone, but the fan theory isn't nullified just because his voice was heard.
      - bduerst 10y ago
        We joked that Tyrell is another split personality, since the main character never really seems to interact with Tyrell and other people in the same conversations. Tyrell's wife could know about his personalities and just not care, hence the weird conversation at the end of season 1.
rachelbythebay 10y ago
And the eyeball seems to be delivering ASCII in hex to you, The Martian-style.
thieving_magpie 10y ago
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sFdXb85U3wJ:https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sFdXb...
rwhitman 10y ago
The coolest thing about this show I discovered was that every hack depicted is actually tested to see if it would work, and the screenshots cut into the show are always shown in the correct order of execution. Amazing. Wish there was a clip on YouTube but their tech consultant Kor Adana explains it in the "Hacking Robot" panel discussion they ran after the season premiere (around 8:50 tons of ads sorry): http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101 http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101
- rudolf0 10y ago
  Yeah, S02E01 impressed me in particular. The SET usage, ransomware, and IRC logs all seemed 100% accurate. Only part that's not quite accurate is Cryptowall would never be used for this, since it's a specific ransomware family used to collect money from generally unknowledgeable end users. In reality, they probably would've written their own lightweight ransomware. If they changed it to some other pun ("Cryptofence" or something), that would've made it a bit more realistic.
- nxzero 10y ago
  Tech consultants are listed here: https://mobile.twitter.com/KorAdana/status/753481662445580288 https://mobile.twitter.com/KorAdana/status/75348166244558028... @KorAdana @ryankaz42 @AndreOnCyber @MOBLAgentP @IntelTechniques @marcwrogers
- 746F7475 10y ago
  I still do not believe that the Steel Mountain hack could be pulled off the way they did it.
  - orionblastar 10y ago
    They worked with Chinese hackers in order to pull it off. Most likely working for the Chinese government to hack into US servers and steal data without getting noticed. I'm not sure how the data tapes got erased, but they planted a Raspberry PI to the heating system to turn up the heat and fry them all? Bypassing safety checks and displaying normal readings to the people monitoring it? Wouldn't those people feel the heat going up and panic?
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GonzoBytes 10y ago
IMHO this is just a newish type of marketing campaign by Comcast / NBC / tv.USA. Raising the level of geek creds is not unlike Big Bang Theory, but without the laugh tracks. It's very likely a new type of fandometric tracking utility is being honed by Comcast to engage and entertain the faithful. Why not, huh? btw, having the mailware deliverable ia that auto-exec flash exe is really old school, no? I keep seeing this in plots of procedural crime shows where digital savvy techie or detective shoves a newly discovered victim usb into their working computers. Who does that?
- ceejayoz 10y ago
  > Raising the level of geek creds is not unlike Big Bang Theory IMO, Big Bang Theory is effectively "nerd blackface". It doesn't treat its characters as particularly intelligent - they often lack empathy, common sense, etc. The laughs are frequently at their expense and I find it highly uncomfortable to watch. Mr. Robot is far more respectful to its complex protagonists.
  - careersuicide 10y ago
    It isn't just effectively "nerd blackface". It is "nerd blackface". Every time one of my well meaning friends asks why I don't like Big Bang Theory I just direct them to a blog post [0] I came across a while ago that does a far better job explaining my feelings than I could. The only thing that differentiates me from the author of that post is that it took far less time watching the show for me to feel incredibly insulted and put down in a way I hadn't been since I was in middle school. The tl;dr: > And all this wouldn’t really matter if not for the fact that The Big Bang Theory targets nerds as part of its fan base. We’re used to being ridiculed on TV but it’s usually by shows which aren’t aimed at us. The Big Bang Theory goes to Comic-Con, it sells its merchandise at Forbidden Planet. The fact that it sells merchandise at all says that wants part of a cult nerd following. The Big Bang Theory is the worst kind of bully – the one that pretends to be your friend and then takes the piss out of you behind your back. It will take your viewership, it will take your money and it will laugh in your face as it systematically puts you down. [0]: http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-p...
Vexs 10y ago
I think Mr Robot has good tech in it, because it's not a show about tech CSI-Cyber style. It's a drama, which uses tech as a basebone. All the hacking largely stays in quick snippets displayed, and maybe a sort of slow-marathon style of filming where it's clear something takes a while. It's a show about hacking, but hacking is secondary to the other aspects, it just moves the plot forward, and that's why it works so well.
- minimaxir 10y ago
  Mr. Robot has good tech because, like HBO's Silicon Valley, they consulted with people in the industry. USA has posted an interesting making-of of sorts on the show: https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI
  - adrusi 10y ago
    The point is why they consulted with people in the industry. Often when media shows hacking it's as an action scene, and you can have some very exciting realistic hacking scenes, but only if you can rely on the audience understanding a lot of the context, which you can't, so instead they present a charicature of hacking that is exciting to a wide audience. The same can be said of many other domains of knowledge. You can make realistic historical settings extremely interesting, but that's very hard if the audience doesn't know the historical background so that they can connect what is happening on the screen with what happened in history. Mr. Robot consulted with people industry because their hacking scenes more closely resemble Sherlock Holmes detective work than action sequences, so they don't have to make things happen fast to get viewers' adrenaline flowing and can have time to give lay-people more room to understand the context. Without this story structure any expert consultations would be wasted.
    - rasz_pl 10y ago
      Matrix wasnt action oriented?
    - RobertoG 10y ago
      I appreciate your comment, I think is insightful, but I have to say it: about the 'get viewers adrenaline flowing', they could, at least, make a little effort in avoiding the totally ridiculous. If they are not aiming for realism, they could, at least, try to be coherent in their own 'universe'. Sometimes, the things that come from Hollywood feel like they don't respect their public. We leave for another day the discussion about if their public deserve the respect.
pfooti 10y ago
Does anyone recall a Mr. Robot giveaway with American Giant hoodies? I went to the AG retail space two days ago to figure out what hoodie size I needed, and made a Mr. Robot joke. The salesperson said, "hey, we did a promo with Mr. Robot, actually, where there was a website in the show and if you followed a bunch of clues, there was some morse code and eventually you got a free Mr. Robot hoodie from us." At the time, I marked it up as "awww, too bad I missed it", especially since I tend to binge shows after they're all available at once. But I wasn't able to find any evidence of this promo existing on the web, and now there's this thing with morse code and so on. Soooo maybe there's a nice hoodie at the end of this road.
- nxzero 10y ago
  f you want to figure out this mystery on your own, the number is (212) 804-6003. ____ SPOILER INFO HERE: http://decider.com/2016/05/18/mr-robot-season-two-trailer-secret-message/ http://decider.com/2016/05/18/mr-robot-season-two-trailer-se...
  - pfooti 10y ago
    Aha, thanks - so the free hoodie (and they're really nice hoodies!) happened already. The promo page is still pretty neat, though, and a quick perusal of the javascript indicates there may be some more hidden material in there somewhere.
    - cpcarey 10y ago
      Yes, they sent hoodies on premiere night to the first 509 people that reached the end sign-up page. Very cool of the marketing team and everyone involved.
auganov 10y ago
Is this season going to have a lot of "weird" stuff going on as well? I watched the first one. I enjoyed the first few episodes, seemed like it was going to be a drama about people working in InfoSec. Definitely appreciated the relative plausibility of the hacks. Was very disappointed when it turned into a psycho-druggie-anonymous-whatever sort of thing. It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers. I understand how that's more appealing to a wider audience. Just saying what I'd prefer personally for my own sake.
- DigitalJack 10y ago
  It's a re-imagining of fight club, sans fighting.
  - mundo 10y ago
    My description is "Fight Club meets Pump Up the Volume, set in the world of Watch_Dogs."
    - DigitalJack 10y ago
      I like that, but I think it would maybe be more "true romance" than "pump up the volume." Both fit though.
      - oillio 10y ago
        I'd go with Heathers. You know Slater is screwed up, but you only gradually realize the true depth of his violent angry insanity.
    - bduerst 10y ago
      "Fight Club for hackers, also drugs."
  - kmnc 10y ago
    Fight club meets Hackers meets Network. I'm still waiting for the epic "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Alderson" which you know is coming.
stuxnet79 10y ago
Mr Robot propelled Kali Linux into the top of the Linux OS rankings. After watching the Season 2 premiere yesterday even I decided I'm going to check Kali Linux out - either on Virtual Machine or my Raspberry Pi 3. Also I was pleasantly surprised to see Joey Badass in the show (his first acting gig I think). Hopefully they will allow the character he plays to shine. Great show!
- loukmane 10y ago
  cool
- erfan69380 10y ago
  Hacked by Black_hand
- Rohankumarbhoi 10y ago
  I'm installed my android phone & I want to operate kali Linux app
  - nwr41914 10y ago
    I want to hack program Wi-Fi
  - nwr41914 10y ago
    I want the program to cleanse the Wi-Fi network and Thanks
TempleOSV409 10y ago
God says... sis's deregulation rituals Tull's negligs landmark's haggard platitude sued negate nocturnes Marco's meadow's bucksaw's Yahweh friends trowelling Spaatz millepede Picasso immunization's stopper's collective's Ben misconducting driblet escalations miraculously collarbone's multimedia bribing captaincies
character 10y ago
There is a QR code drawn in Elliot's journal that leads to www.conficturaindustries.com (one of the URLs linked to the same SSL cert) - the same company name that is on the front of the journal. And the meticulous zoom-in on the apple skin left on the floor looks very similar to the logo of the company. Looks like they had fun making this :)
- csm-dev 10y ago
  They had a lot of fun but this is also why i love this series :)
bduerst 10y ago
Can anyone get a read on the QR code from his notebook? http://i.imgur.com/4H0M2hj.png http://i.imgur.com/4H0M2hj.png I tried to isolate the image but it's not reading: http://i.imgur.com/fQV1EIn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fQV1EIn.jpg
- RobotCaleb 10y ago
  http://www.conficturaindustries.com http://www.conficturaindustries.com
  - bduerst 10y ago
    Looks like NBC registered it a month ago and it's hosted on Adobe cloud. Maybe they'll change it later during the season?
- heywire 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4sw7af/spoilers_s2e1_my_phone_couldnt_read_the_qrcode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4sw7af/spoilers_s2...
  - bduerst 10y ago
    My god, they redrew it pixel by pixel. That was still probably faster than what I did.
SG- 10y ago
I'm pretty happy they used BitchX for the IRC client.
cygnus 10y ago
what about? https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4joo75/no_spoilers_mr_robot_arg_master_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4joo75/no_spoilers...
blu3gl0w13 10y ago
Apparently, I'm way behind on this series if we're already in season 2. Yikes. I guess I better catch up!!! no more spoilers please!!!
yeukhon 10y ago
Fun fact. Mr Robot S02E01 was doing a scene right around the corner next to AWS NY Loft. Not sure if it was accidental or intentional. I only came to realize until this HN post and looked at what the main character looks like. Yeah the kid with hoodie. He was there.
breatheoften 10y ago
On top of what I consider to be utterly extraordinary film making craft, this show really gives me a new appreciation of the nature of anarchy. There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure -- if it were more predictable then the rules of the incumbent power structure would be likely to predict and prevent such a large change. I feel like this idea is present at many levels in the story -- including the dynamics of Elliot's personality disorder and his attempts to construct trust in his perception of reality and his own motivations. Intermingling these themes with the idea of hacking -- the art of finding/manipulating unexpected behavior in systems -- is incredibly rich -- and mesmerizing.
- nxzero 10y ago
  Irony is that with a complete state of disorder due to absence of authority, there would likely be no Internet.
- mahranch 10y ago
  > There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure If this is the kind of anarchy you envision, you're going to be sorely disappointed if something like that happened in real life. Real anarchy would look more like how people would react if zombies broke out. There would be mass looting, killings, raping, and people taking advantage of the chaos (opportunists). It would literally be the wild west with all services, including power and the internet going down. The "anarchy" in Mr. Robot is a falsehood, it's a libertarian/hackers fantasy. That's not anarchy at all. Not even close.
  - thedudemabry 10y ago
    While I agree with your assertion that a state of anarchy introduced by force (technical or otherwise) in a relatively stable democracy would be nightmarish, I suspect that's going to be the thrust of season 2. The activists leveraged some technical know-how and swashbuckling intrusions to bring down a big bank's systems, but the opening episodes of season 2 point to a mobilization of the democratic government forces to restore order by force. They didn't create anarchy by destroying the source of financial truth, they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down. The series was supposed to have been composed as a three-act movie originally, and it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds moving forward in the second act.
kogir 10y ago
Stuff like this is a nice touch. I wonder how long it will stay up? It would be controversial but really interesting if they dropped an actual 0-day during the show as well.
- mahranch 10y ago
  Episodes are filmed 6 months to a year ago. Would it be a 0-day at that point? I remember when 0-day actually meant brand new (typically a release on that particular day), but that was 15-20 years ago. Over that time, the definition could have changed.
  - detaro 10y ago
    That's still the definition. But if they filmed an episode with an unknown exploit, it didn't get leaked and nobody else finds it between filming and release, it would be 0-day. Very questionable to do though.
- omnibrain 10y ago
  AFAIK one of the authors dropped a 0-day in one of the Stealing the Network books, back in the day.
nickysielicki 10y ago
There is also an archive quine embedded within the image at http://www.conficturaindustries.com/images/linkexchange_banner.png http://www.conficturaindustries.com/images/linkexchange_bann... , which is the website corresponding to the QR code that was shown briefly in his notebook. I didn't look at it closer, there might be more in there.
dclowd9901 10y ago
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson" Apparently I have more in common with Jefferson than I thought (Re my numerous comments in the past regarding the danger of consumer credit).
labmixz 10y ago
Neat easter egg. Though you should get some better servers for your site. That load time is crazy. Especially on my 1GB connection. Granted, I'm going through proxies, but wow, still horrible. Anyhow, can't wait to see what this season has in store. I find myself relating to a lot of the personal struggles in the last season. Maybe that makes me crazy. ha.
r4ltman 10y ago
Clearly no one here has seen blue 'heet me' velvet
jmkni 10y ago
I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't drink the Mr Robot kool-aid. It's cool that they get the tech right, but I just feel as though the protagonist has the mentality of an angsty teenager trying their best to be 'edgy' by 'fighting the man'. Maybe if the show took itself a little less seriously I might enjoy it more.
s_q_b 10y ago
Scan the QR code hand-drawn in Elliot's notebook.
pizza 10y ago
Thought it was intriguing that a schizophrenic uber-hacker's poison of choice was morphine; it seems more in line with methamphetamine use, imo! Hacking on morphine... would.. be... something..... like...... this........

639 points by tilt 10y ago

This is great. Nice job!

Thats really good detective work. I was not expecting this much attention to detail at all - even after season one seemingly surpassed every film/tv show in history on that account. I will definitely be screen pausing for the rest of this season myself now.

hmate9 10y ago

Really nice! But Mr Robot is something I won't watch anymore. It is just too weird and slow at this point.

lucio 10y ago
I saw it until it became too sad and depressing. Are joy and triumph not good for plots? Why not a character like Mike from "Suits"?
- masmullin 10y ago
  > Why not a character like Mike from "Suits"? Suits already has a character like Mike from Suits. The characters name is, surprisingly, named Mike. If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits.
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  - gunnihinn 10y ago
    > If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits. And it follows that the space of sitcoms is a singleton. That explains a lot.
- 67726e 10y ago
  I dunno, I certainly like the show. Maybe it's just the general malaise I'm feeling, but it's certainly poking at many of the things I feel are wrong in the world. God knows, if it were possible to accomplish what they did in season 1 I would have been more than on board.
- blahi 10y ago
  Because suits is laughably unrealistic?
abledon 10y ago
I want a sci-fi show about an engineering team that debugs and deploys fleets of robots/organic aliens inside the bloodstream of a giant space whale creature in which, humanity itself is living on some sort of floating enclosed solarsystem bubble. They would have standup meetings each day (ever second episode) and you would see how a large organization would operate efficiently using something similar to Nexus-Scrum.
- vacri 10y ago
  > Nexus-Scrum I'm now at my third company where I'm the only techie that thinks internal code names are useful and everyone else just uses very generic terms like 'the app'. And when a second app is made, they all seem oblivious to the amount of time wasted in describing which app is which in nearly every damn bug or feature request. Given that I'm the only ops guy and I have to package this stuff, I give them a damn name and that proliferates back through the rest of the techs. Anyway, the point of this comment is that the latest thing to come my way was a notification service called 'notification service', a seven-syllable horror that will cause confusion with another service that sends notifications, and it does things other than notify (it'll touch and mediate a few things over the network). I said "Can we please call it 'nexus' - because every company needs a bit of software somewhere called 'nexus'" :) As a bonus, today I set up the first nexus server, for testing...
  - calgoo 10y ago
    Yea, Im on the other end of the spectrum: So IDP integrates with SN, OHS, ADP, RDC, Xym. The support is managed by the SSD, DC2 (and many, many more....). I think the Project and Product managers make these up to prove they are doing something productive. So many acronyms, and no documentation except the main project docs. So you need to read a mountain of documentation to even know what people are talking about. Even better when you have IDP, ADP, EDP etc and people from several different countries trying to pronounce all of these correctly.
    - vacri 10y ago
      My personal naming rules are "one unemotive word, two syllables max, with clear unambiguous spelling and pronunciation". Maybe go to three syllables if it's really fitting. Generally the name is not meant to reflect the function - the point is to be memorable, not descriptive (and not customer facing). This being said, I'm a small company guy, so I haven't run into the need for amazing amounts of acronyms or product names (I'm not sure how far my rules would stretch...) My favourite shortening was a netadmin friend of mine who worked at a bank a while back, describing coding schemes for network hardware: "blah blah ethernet concentrator blah address blah city makes XXXECO1" => "What's an 'ethernet concentrator'?" => "Is it a switch? Is it a hub? Is it (*rattles of a couple of other things I can't recall)? Who cares? They do similar things in the grand scheme..." And shorten down to a clear 'EC' to cover them all.
vacri 10y ago
I'm a bit the same. It was really enjoyable, and then just bogged down at the end of the first season, with an amazingly trope-ish 'twist'. I think the lead actor is outstanding, being able to convey 'numb at the world' rather than just 'unexpressive/emotionless', but yeah, it's just too slow. And when push comes to shove, while it's great to see actual tech in action, it doesn't actually matter that much to the story. As long as the characters aren't doing things that actively break immersion (blue ribbon award goes to NCIS having two people type on the same keyboard...), it doesn't matter to me so much if the 'hack' is real or not.
- calgoo 10y ago
  My favorite hacking scene is still from Scorpions (well there are two, the one below and the one where they are hacking a jet, with a RJ45 cable, from a car while landing). "We need to hack NORAD!" Guy reaches for keyboard (without touching it), "Done!". Sarcasm apart, while Mr.Robot has good tech, I got bored by the story line around episode 4 or 5. I think it was just too slow for my taste. Edit: Link to first "Hack" mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEb8zKfPBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEb8zKfPBo Edit2: Link to the double keyboard NCIS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
  - freyir 10y ago
    They should tie in a plot line about how our consumption culture has obliterated our attention spans and made us dependent on constant stimuli.
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      There is a fantastic short (scifi) story about consumption/attention economies taken to their logical conclusion on SomethingAwful (I think), but I can't find it right now.
      - freyir 10y ago
        I'd google it but I've already lost interest.

jaegerpicker 10y ago

This show is amazing IMO. It's like a love letter to all those late nights when I was 15 and glued to my freebsd box until unhealthly late hours!

outofstep 10y ago

Love this show bc it's like Fight Club meets Hackers. Can't wait to watch the full season

jboy 10y ago
Fight Club meets Hackers meets American Psycho, with a soundtrack like The Social Network.

partisan 10y ago

I am probably going to wait for the season to complete so I can binge watch. Am I the only one? My big concern is all of the media and spoilers that surround these popular shows. Why do I know who died in Orange is the New Black? Why does Google think I need this as part of my news feed that I check only once or twice a day because I just need the most important news items.

eddieroger 10y ago
I watch live for that reason. There aren't many shows that I do that for, but this is one, and Game of Thrones is the big other one. But I agree that the media spoils too much, though it's not unexpected - spoilers and discussions get big clicks these days.
- mobweb 10y ago
  I feel like I can one-up you on this. Here in Switzerland, the day after some popular shows in the US have ended (for example Breaking Bad, or a GoT season finale), some daily newspapers print two page spreads with all the spoilers from "last night's" episode - despite the fact that 100% of their readers are legally unable to watch that episode for probably another couple of months. And even those that do follow the show through non-legal channels probably haven't downloaded the episode yet, since it has aired in the middle of the night for us.
  - ufo 10y ago
    To mitigate this problem, I wrote some custom CSS with Stilish to block the "TV news" section of the online newspapers I visit most often.
grogenaut 10y ago
Agreed. I have the same problem with Google news and now and sports scores... I don't see why they're treated as general news... why can't it be more like books where time shifting has always existed and conversations have always been deferred. And yes I understand the legacy with sports news but we've evolved damnit!

avs733 10y ago

>AdobeTracking.showSiteFeature = 'Mr. Robot : S2 Easter Egg Sites'; [view-source:http://www.evil-corp-usa.com/ http://www.evil-corp-usa.com/] Sites I get the feeling this will be ongoing...makes the show more fun and a little interactive

SurrealSoul 10y ago
they actually had a really cool ARG before S02ep01, the winners got a really cool sweatshirt

Cengkaruk 10y ago

Tell me where Tyrell is...

50CNT 10y ago
I just binge watched the show a couple of days ago. Remember how Elliot stashes the gun given to him by Darlene in the popcorn machine instead of taking it to the meeting with white lotus? When Elliot shows Tyrell the Fsociety space, that same popcorn machine starts making popcorn. I sincerely doubt Elliot turned on the machine just for popcorn.
- rudolf0 10y ago
  There's no doubt he was reaching for the gun. You can see him sticking his hand in there and digging around. One fan tinfoil theory is that he killed Tyrell and the last two episodes have been him sitting in a jail cell. I don't really buy that, but he probably did shoot or try to shoot someone.
  - andrewpi 10y ago
    The voice on the phone at the end of s02e02 is Tyrell though. He's obviously on the run somewhere; most likely overseas.
    - rudolf0 10y ago
      Yes, but remember Elliot is a very unreliable narrator, and that's definitely a scene from his perspective. I still think Tyrell is alive and was really on the phone, but the fan theory isn't nullified just because his voice was heard.
    - bduerst 10y ago
      We joked that Tyrell is another split personality, since the main character never really seems to interact with Tyrell and other people in the same conversations. Tyrell's wife could know about his personalities and just not care, hence the weird conversation at the end of season 1.

rachelbythebay 10y ago

And the eyeball seems to be delivering ASCII in hex to you, The Martian-style.

thieving_magpie 10y ago

Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sFdXb85U3wJ:https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sFdXb...

rwhitman 10y ago

The coolest thing about this show I discovered was that every hack depicted is actually tested to see if it would work, and the screenshots cut into the show are always shown in the correct order of execution. Amazing. Wish there was a clip on YouTube but their tech consultant Kor Adana explains it in the "Hacking Robot" panel discussion they ran after the season premiere (around 8:50 tons of ads sorry): http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101 http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101

rudolf0 10y ago
Yeah, S02E01 impressed me in particular. The SET usage, ransomware, and IRC logs all seemed 100% accurate. Only part that's not quite accurate is Cryptowall would never be used for this, since it's a specific ransomware family used to collect money from generally unknowledgeable end users. In reality, they probably would've written their own lightweight ransomware. If they changed it to some other pun ("Cryptofence" or something), that would've made it a bit more realistic.
nxzero 10y ago
Tech consultants are listed here: https://mobile.twitter.com/KorAdana/status/753481662445580288 https://mobile.twitter.com/KorAdana/status/75348166244558028... @KorAdana @ryankaz42 @AndreOnCyber @MOBLAgentP @IntelTechniques @marcwrogers
746F7475 10y ago
I still do not believe that the Steel Mountain hack could be pulled off the way they did it.
- orionblastar 10y ago
  They worked with Chinese hackers in order to pull it off. Most likely working for the Chinese government to hack into US servers and steal data without getting noticed. I'm not sure how the data tapes got erased, but they planted a Raspberry PI to the heating system to turn up the heat and fry them all? Bypassing safety checks and displaying normal readings to the people monitoring it? Wouldn't those people feel the heat going up and panic?

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GonzoBytes 10y ago

IMHO this is just a newish type of marketing campaign by Comcast / NBC / tv.USA. Raising the level of geek creds is not unlike Big Bang Theory, but without the laugh tracks. It's very likely a new type of fandometric tracking utility is being honed by Comcast to engage and entertain the faithful. Why not, huh? btw, having the mailware deliverable ia that auto-exec flash exe is really old school, no? I keep seeing this in plots of procedural crime shows where digital savvy techie or detective shoves a newly discovered victim usb into their working computers. Who does that?

ceejayoz 10y ago
> Raising the level of geek creds is not unlike Big Bang Theory IMO, Big Bang Theory is effectively "nerd blackface". It doesn't treat its characters as particularly intelligent - they often lack empathy, common sense, etc. The laughs are frequently at their expense and I find it highly uncomfortable to watch. Mr. Robot is far more respectful to its complex protagonists.
- careersuicide 10y ago
  It isn't just effectively "nerd blackface". It is "nerd blackface". Every time one of my well meaning friends asks why I don't like Big Bang Theory I just direct them to a blog post [0] I came across a while ago that does a far better job explaining my feelings than I could. The only thing that differentiates me from the author of that post is that it took far less time watching the show for me to feel incredibly insulted and put down in a way I hadn't been since I was in middle school. The tl;dr: > And all this wouldn’t really matter if not for the fact that The Big Bang Theory targets nerds as part of its fan base. We’re used to being ridiculed on TV but it’s usually by shows which aren’t aimed at us. The Big Bang Theory goes to Comic-Con, it sells its merchandise at Forbidden Planet. The fact that it sells merchandise at all says that wants part of a cult nerd following. The Big Bang Theory is the worst kind of bully – the one that pretends to be your friend and then takes the piss out of you behind your back. It will take your viewership, it will take your money and it will laugh in your face as it systematically puts you down. [0]: http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-p...

Vexs 10y ago

I think Mr Robot has good tech in it, because it's not a show about tech CSI-Cyber style. It's a drama, which uses tech as a basebone. All the hacking largely stays in quick snippets displayed, and maybe a sort of slow-marathon style of filming where it's clear something takes a while. It's a show about hacking, but hacking is secondary to the other aspects, it just moves the plot forward, and that's why it works so well.

minimaxir 10y ago
Mr. Robot has good tech because, like HBO's Silicon Valley, they consulted with people in the industry. USA has posted an interesting making-of of sorts on the show: https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI
- adrusi 10y ago
  The point is why they consulted with people in the industry. Often when media shows hacking it's as an action scene, and you can have some very exciting realistic hacking scenes, but only if you can rely on the audience understanding a lot of the context, which you can't, so instead they present a charicature of hacking that is exciting to a wide audience. The same can be said of many other domains of knowledge. You can make realistic historical settings extremely interesting, but that's very hard if the audience doesn't know the historical background so that they can connect what is happening on the screen with what happened in history. Mr. Robot consulted with people industry because their hacking scenes more closely resemble Sherlock Holmes detective work than action sequences, so they don't have to make things happen fast to get viewers' adrenaline flowing and can have time to give lay-people more room to understand the context. Without this story structure any expert consultations would be wasted.
  - rasz_pl 10y ago
    Matrix wasnt action oriented?
  - RobertoG 10y ago
    I appreciate your comment, I think is insightful, but I have to say it: about the 'get viewers adrenaline flowing', they could, at least, make a little effort in avoiding the totally ridiculous. If they are not aiming for realism, they could, at least, try to be coherent in their own 'universe'. Sometimes, the things that come from Hollywood feel like they don't respect their public. We leave for another day the discussion about if their public deserve the respect.

pfooti 10y ago

Does anyone recall a Mr. Robot giveaway with American Giant hoodies? I went to the AG retail space two days ago to figure out what hoodie size I needed, and made a Mr. Robot joke. The salesperson said, "hey, we did a promo with Mr. Robot, actually, where there was a website in the show and if you followed a bunch of clues, there was some morse code and eventually you got a free Mr. Robot hoodie from us." At the time, I marked it up as "awww, too bad I missed it", especially since I tend to binge shows after they're all available at once. But I wasn't able to find any evidence of this promo existing on the web, and now there's this thing with morse code and so on. Soooo maybe there's a nice hoodie at the end of this road.

nxzero 10y ago
f you want to figure out this mystery on your own, the number is (212) 804-6003. ____ SPOILER INFO HERE: http://decider.com/2016/05/18/mr-robot-season-two-trailer-secret-message/ http://decider.com/2016/05/18/mr-robot-season-two-trailer-se...
- pfooti 10y ago
  Aha, thanks - so the free hoodie (and they're really nice hoodies!) happened already. The promo page is still pretty neat, though, and a quick perusal of the javascript indicates there may be some more hidden material in there somewhere.
  - cpcarey 10y ago
    Yes, they sent hoodies on premiere night to the first 509 people that reached the end sign-up page. Very cool of the marketing team and everyone involved.

auganov 10y ago

Is this season going to have a lot of "weird" stuff going on as well? I watched the first one. I enjoyed the first few episodes, seemed like it was going to be a drama about people working in InfoSec. Definitely appreciated the relative plausibility of the hacks. Was very disappointed when it turned into a psycho-druggie-anonymous-whatever sort of thing. It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers. I understand how that's more appealing to a wider audience. Just saying what I'd prefer personally for my own sake.

DigitalJack 10y ago
It's a re-imagining of fight club, sans fighting.
- mundo 10y ago
  My description is "Fight Club meets Pump Up the Volume, set in the world of Watch_Dogs."
  - DigitalJack 10y ago
    I like that, but I think it would maybe be more "true romance" than "pump up the volume." Both fit though.
    - oillio 10y ago
      I'd go with Heathers. You know Slater is screwed up, but you only gradually realize the true depth of his violent angry insanity.
  - bduerst 10y ago
    "Fight Club for hackers, also drugs."
- kmnc 10y ago
  Fight club meets Hackers meets Network. I'm still waiting for the epic "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Alderson" which you know is coming.

stuxnet79 10y ago

Mr Robot propelled Kali Linux into the top of the Linux OS rankings. After watching the Season 2 premiere yesterday even I decided I'm going to check Kali Linux out - either on Virtual Machine or my Raspberry Pi 3. Also I was pleasantly surprised to see Joey Badass in the show (his first acting gig I think). Hopefully they will allow the character he plays to shine. Great show!

loukmane 10y ago
cool
erfan69380 10y ago
Hacked by Black_hand
Rohankumarbhoi 10y ago
I'm installed my android phone & I want to operate kali Linux app
- nwr41914 10y ago
  I want to hack program Wi-Fi
- nwr41914 10y ago
  I want the program to cleanse the Wi-Fi network and Thanks

TempleOSV409 10y ago

God says... sis's deregulation rituals Tull's negligs landmark's haggard platitude sued negate nocturnes Marco's meadow's bucksaw's Yahweh friends trowelling Spaatz millepede Picasso immunization's stopper's collective's Ben misconducting driblet escalations miraculously collarbone's multimedia bribing captaincies

character 10y ago

There is a QR code drawn in Elliot's journal that leads to www.conficturaindustries.com (one of the URLs linked to the same SSL cert) - the same company name that is on the front of the journal. And the meticulous zoom-in on the apple skin left on the floor looks very similar to the logo of the company. Looks like they had fun making this :)

csm-dev 10y ago
They had a lot of fun but this is also why i love this series :)

bduerst 10y ago

Can anyone get a read on the QR code from his notebook? http://i.imgur.com/4H0M2hj.png http://i.imgur.com/4H0M2hj.png I tried to isolate the image but it's not reading: http://i.imgur.com/fQV1EIn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fQV1EIn.jpg

RobotCaleb 10y ago
http://www.conficturaindustries.com http://www.conficturaindustries.com
- bduerst 10y ago
  Looks like NBC registered it a month ago and it's hosted on Adobe cloud. Maybe they'll change it later during the season?
heywire 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4sw7af/spoilers_s2e1_my_phone_couldnt_read_the_qrcode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4sw7af/spoilers_s2...
- bduerst 10y ago
  My god, they redrew it pixel by pixel. That was still probably faster than what I did.

SG- 10y ago

I'm pretty happy they used BitchX for the IRC client.

cygnus 10y ago

what about? https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4joo75/no_spoilers_mr_robot_arg_master_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4joo75/no_spoilers...

blu3gl0w13 10y ago

Apparently, I'm way behind on this series if we're already in season 2. Yikes. I guess I better catch up!!! no more spoilers please!!!

yeukhon 10y ago

Fun fact. Mr Robot S02E01 was doing a scene right around the corner next to AWS NY Loft. Not sure if it was accidental or intentional. I only came to realize until this HN post and looked at what the main character looks like. Yeah the kid with hoodie. He was there.

breatheoften 10y ago

On top of what I consider to be utterly extraordinary film making craft, this show really gives me a new appreciation of the nature of anarchy. There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure -- if it were more predictable then the rules of the incumbent power structure would be likely to predict and prevent such a large change. I feel like this idea is present at many levels in the story -- including the dynamics of Elliot's personality disorder and his attempts to construct trust in his perception of reality and his own motivations. Intermingling these themes with the idea of hacking -- the art of finding/manipulating unexpected behavior in systems -- is incredibly rich -- and mesmerizing.

nxzero 10y ago
Irony is that with a complete state of disorder due to absence of authority, there would likely be no Internet.
mahranch 10y ago
> There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure If this is the kind of anarchy you envision, you're going to be sorely disappointed if something like that happened in real life. Real anarchy would look more like how people would react if zombies broke out. There would be mass looting, killings, raping, and people taking advantage of the chaos (opportunists). It would literally be the wild west with all services, including power and the internet going down. The "anarchy" in Mr. Robot is a falsehood, it's a libertarian/hackers fantasy. That's not anarchy at all. Not even close.
- thedudemabry 10y ago
  While I agree with your assertion that a state of anarchy introduced by force (technical or otherwise) in a relatively stable democracy would be nightmarish, I suspect that's going to be the thrust of season 2. The activists leveraged some technical know-how and swashbuckling intrusions to bring down a big bank's systems, but the opening episodes of season 2 point to a mobilization of the democratic government forces to restore order by force. They didn't create anarchy by destroying the source of financial truth, they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down. The series was supposed to have been composed as a three-act movie originally, and it'll be interesting to see how it unfolds moving forward in the second act.

kogir 10y ago

Stuff like this is a nice touch. I wonder how long it will stay up? It would be controversial but really interesting if they dropped an actual 0-day during the show as well.

mahranch 10y ago
Episodes are filmed 6 months to a year ago. Would it be a 0-day at that point? I remember when 0-day actually meant brand new (typically a release on that particular day), but that was 15-20 years ago. Over that time, the definition could have changed.
- detaro 10y ago
  That's still the definition. But if they filmed an episode with an unknown exploit, it didn't get leaked and nobody else finds it between filming and release, it would be 0-day. Very questionable to do though.
omnibrain 10y ago
AFAIK one of the authors dropped a 0-day in one of the Stealing the Network books, back in the day.

nickysielicki 10y ago

There is also an archive quine embedded within the image at http://www.conficturaindustries.com/images/linkexchange_banner.png http://www.conficturaindustries.com/images/linkexchange_bann... , which is the website corresponding to the QR code that was shown briefly in his notebook. I didn't look at it closer, there might be more in there.

dclowd9901 10y ago

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson" Apparently I have more in common with Jefferson than I thought (Re my numerous comments in the past regarding the danger of consumer credit).

labmixz 10y ago

Neat easter egg. Though you should get some better servers for your site. That load time is crazy. Especially on my 1GB connection. Granted, I'm going through proxies, but wow, still horrible. Anyhow, can't wait to see what this season has in store. I find myself relating to a lot of the personal struggles in the last season. Maybe that makes me crazy. ha.

r4ltman 10y ago

Clearly no one here has seen blue 'heet me' velvet

jmkni 10y ago

I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't drink the Mr Robot kool-aid. It's cool that they get the tech right, but I just feel as though the protagonist has the mentality of an angsty teenager trying their best to be 'edgy' by 'fighting the man'. Maybe if the show took itself a little less seriously I might enjoy it more.

s_q_b 10y ago

Scan the QR code hand-drawn in Elliot's notebook.

pizza 10y ago

Thought it was intriguing that a schizophrenic uber-hacker's poison of choice was morphine; it seems more in line with methamphetamine use, imo! Hacking on morphine... would.. be... something..... like...... this........