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I just saw the pilot yesterday, and aside from having a really cool storyline, the tech/lingo is surprisingly accurate. I don't want to hype it too much based o

I just saw the pilot yesterday, and aside from having a really cool storyline, the tech/lingo is surprisingly accurate. I don't want to hype it too much based off 1 episode, but the whole show feels very Dexter-esque.

mortenjorck 11y ago
The trailer turned me off with the usual "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING" foley work. Do they avoid that in the episode?
- mikegioia 11y ago
  You would never know it from the trailer, but honestly aside from a short convo about Gnome/KDE it's spot on. They got tor, DDOS, networking, linux, file systems, etc all correct I couldn't believe what I was watching. I don't know if they hired good consultants, or if the TV networks are finally beginning to quit watering down the tech in their shows. On top of that, the guy they have playing the main character is a totally convincing (yet definitely dramatized) portrayal of a security engineer/hacktivist living in the Lower East Side.
  - MarcScott 11y ago
    I didn't get what the 'astu' command he used several times was for. Also as was pointed out to me by another viewer - not sure how the main character expected to hide that .dat file by chmodding it to his user id. The file was held in root's HOME folder, so anything in there should be accessible only to root anyway, and root is going to be able to see any file from any user. But I'm being a pedant and I thought it was an excellent pilot that I hope they continue. It should be compulsory viewing for the screenwriters of CSI: Cyber.
    - mijoharas 11y ago
      I have to confess that I did pause what I was watching and start googling what `astu` was, glad to see I'm not alone in that.
    - d3banjan 11y ago
      maybe the astu command was a wrapper over docker? or something like it.
    - ruok0101 11y ago
      Lol, here I am googling 'astu' as well after watching the show. But @MarcScott - remember, you can read a file in a directory that you dont have +r on if you know the filename, as long as you have +x to change into that dir ;)
  - diletante 11y ago
    wrong -- they didnt get tor correct. when he states the exit node in tor would lead to discovering his hidden service for his CP -- access to hidden services does NOT require an exit node check out anonymous' unmasking of CP hidden services. they had to deploy multiple relay nodes to find the service so that one would eventually become a guard node...
    - diletante 11y ago
      clarity-- Ron's CP hidden service/server
  - diletante 11y ago
    wrong -- they didnt get tor correct. when he states the exit node in tor would lead to discovering his hidden service for his CP -- access to hidden services does NOT require an exit node check out anonymous' unmasking of CP hidden services. they had to deploy multiple relay nodes to find the service so that one would eventually become a guard node...
- lawl 11y ago
  Honestly, the only reason I watched the episode (just now) was that I got linked this clip [0] earlier today. Didn't know it was this show back then, recognized it now. But I have to agree, the lingo is acceptable, although not really perfect or good. I.e. Tor is unsecure because apparently if you control the exit node you can track the origin, which is obviously not true. But hey, they talk about Tor and exit nodes in one sentence that almost makes sense, so that's pretty good, apart from me feeling that claiming Tor isn't secure in a TV show is kind of a campaign... Between creating a GUI in visual basic to track an IP address [1] and reality I'd say it's kind of in the middle. But it's not "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING". [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
  - mijoharas 11y ago
    Does it bother anyone else that he doesn't seem to be using gnome even when they talk about him using it?
litmus 11y ago
yeah, they had me until he clicked on the search button with his mouse.....yeah, his mouse. who the hell does that? It's just not rhetorical, is there any one out here that clicks the search button on google instead of hitting enter right after they typed? Also is it realistic to require programmers to wear business casual at a top notch cybersecurity firm? Is this an actual thing? edit: typo
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mortenjorck 11y ago

The trailer turned me off with the usual "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING" foley work. Do they avoid that in the episode?

mikegioia 11y ago
You would never know it from the trailer, but honestly aside from a short convo about Gnome/KDE it's spot on. They got tor, DDOS, networking, linux, file systems, etc all correct I couldn't believe what I was watching. I don't know if they hired good consultants, or if the TV networks are finally beginning to quit watering down the tech in their shows. On top of that, the guy they have playing the main character is a totally convincing (yet definitely dramatized) portrayal of a security engineer/hacktivist living in the Lower East Side.
- MarcScott 11y ago
  I didn't get what the 'astu' command he used several times was for. Also as was pointed out to me by another viewer - not sure how the main character expected to hide that .dat file by chmodding it to his user id. The file was held in root's HOME folder, so anything in there should be accessible only to root anyway, and root is going to be able to see any file from any user. But I'm being a pedant and I thought it was an excellent pilot that I hope they continue. It should be compulsory viewing for the screenwriters of CSI: Cyber.
  - mijoharas 11y ago
    I have to confess that I did pause what I was watching and start googling what `astu` was, glad to see I'm not alone in that.
  - d3banjan 11y ago
    maybe the astu command was a wrapper over docker? or something like it.
  - ruok0101 11y ago
    Lol, here I am googling 'astu' as well after watching the show. But @MarcScott - remember, you can read a file in a directory that you dont have +r on if you know the filename, as long as you have +x to change into that dir ;)
- diletante 11y ago
  wrong -- they didnt get tor correct. when he states the exit node in tor would lead to discovering his hidden service for his CP -- access to hidden services does NOT require an exit node check out anonymous' unmasking of CP hidden services. they had to deploy multiple relay nodes to find the service so that one would eventually become a guard node...
  - diletante 11y ago
    clarity-- Ron's CP hidden service/server
- diletante 11y ago
  wrong -- they didnt get tor correct. when he states the exit node in tor would lead to discovering his hidden service for his CP -- access to hidden services does NOT require an exit node check out anonymous' unmasking of CP hidden services. they had to deploy multiple relay nodes to find the service so that one would eventually become a guard node...
lawl 11y ago
Honestly, the only reason I watched the episode (just now) was that I got linked this clip [0] earlier today. Didn't know it was this show back then, recognized it now. But I have to agree, the lingo is acceptable, although not really perfect or good. I.e. Tor is unsecure because apparently if you control the exit node you can track the origin, which is obviously not true. But hey, they talk about Tor and exit nodes in one sentence that almost makes sense, so that's pretty good, apart from me feeling that claiming Tor isn't secure in a TV show is kind of a campaign... Between creating a GUI in visual basic to track an IP address [1] and reality I'd say it's kind of in the middle. But it's not "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING". [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
- mijoharas 11y ago
  Does it bother anyone else that he doesn't seem to be using gnome even when they talk about him using it?

litmus 11y ago

yeah, they had me until he clicked on the search button with his mouse.....yeah, his mouse. who the hell does that? It's just not rhetorical, is there any one out here that clicks the search button on google instead of hitting enter right after they typed? Also is it realistic to require programmers to wear business casual at a top notch cybersecurity firm? Is this an actual thing? edit: typo

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