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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 system

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...

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