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I'm a huge fan. What I would like to add is that in my experience the show has also helped the general public better understand some common practices and danger
by serg_chernata 10y ago
I'm a huge fan. What I would like to add is that in my experience the show has also helped the general public better understand some common practices and dangers. In particular the episode where Darlene drops a bunch of infected USB sticks in the police station parking lot. It's nice for people to understand that some mysterious hacker doesn't specifically need to target them as an individual. They're not safe just because they're not very popular or active online.
- danso 10y agoI love his narration of the password cracking, such as how his psychiatrist's password is "Dylan_2791" -- her favorite singer and her birthyear backwards. To me, that feels like what the average person would consider "good" obfuscation, because they can't imagine how fast a brute force attack works inside a narrow space. Or how he tracks his psychiatrist's lover's identity by checking her (the psychiatrist) Instgram checkins, faking a reason to borrow the man's phone, then phishes his security questions and brute forces the password in minutes ("He's too old to have a complicated password, it had to be a combination of these things").