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The TV show "Person of Interest" portrayed this beautifully and it came out 12 years ago. Strange and scary how fast the world develops new technology.

by miyuru 3y ago

cookiengineer 3y ago
The amazing part is that so many large scale cyber attacks happened meanwhile that were 1:1 fiction in the series back then. The Solarwinds incident, for example, was the identical attack and deployment strategy that was the Rylatech hack in the series. From execution to even the parties involved. It's like some foreign state leaders saw those episodes and said "yep that's a good idea, let's do that".
forward1 3y ago
It's far worse still: films like Enemy of the State (1998) actually inspired spy technology. https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/enemy-of-the-state-wide-area-motion-imagery-surveillance-technology.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/enemy-of-the-state-wide...
rambambram 3y ago
This TV show immediately captured me and has always been in the back of my mind since. Then, it seemed like a future far far away, but now you remind me of it... I think it's scarily close already. Around 2013 I came up with some hardware ideas about offline computing and even contemplated to name some versions after the characters in 'Person of Interest'. I can really recommend this series, since it's a good story, has good actors and fits the zeitgeist very well. edit: I also think it's time for me to get a malinois shepherd. ;)
salawat 3y ago
Hell, Stargate SG-1 had a few episodes that touched on the absolute hell of a Federal Government that had access to everything, or a computer system with RW access to people's gray matter and it:s own unknown optimization function (shrinking environmental protection dome resulting in live updates of people's consciousness on a societal scale to keep them in the dark as to it's happening ).

5 ms·

The TV show "Person of Interest" portrayed this beautifully and it came out 12 years ago. Strange and scary how fast the world develops new technology.

by miyuru 3y ago

The TV show "Person of Interest" portrayed this beautifully and it came out 12 years ago. Strange and scary how fast the world develops new technology.

cookiengineer 3y ago
The amazing part is that so many large scale cyber attacks happened meanwhile that were 1:1 fiction in the series back then. The Solarwinds incident, for example, was the identical attack and deployment strategy that was the Rylatech hack in the series. From execution to even the parties involved. It's like some foreign state leaders saw those episodes and said "yep that's a good idea, let's do that".
forward1 3y ago
It's far worse still: films like Enemy of the State (1998) actually inspired spy technology. https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/enemy-of-the-state-wide-area-motion-imagery-surveillance-technology.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/enemy-of-the-state-wide...
rambambram 3y ago
This TV show immediately captured me and has always been in the back of my mind since. Then, it seemed like a future far far away, but now you remind me of it... I think it's scarily close already. Around 2013 I came up with some hardware ideas about offline computing and even contemplated to name some versions after the characters in 'Person of Interest'. I can really recommend this series, since it's a good story, has good actors and fits the zeitgeist very well. edit: I also think it's time for me to get a malinois shepherd. ;)
salawat 3y ago
Hell, Stargate SG-1 had a few episodes that touched on the absolute hell of a Federal Government that had access to everything, or a computer system with RW access to people's gray matter and it:s own unknown optimization function (shrinking environmental protection dome resulting in live updates of people's consciousness on a societal scale to keep them in the dark as to it's happening ).