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Comment by ocdtrekkie | Hacker News Reader

I don't know, I feel like they're one of those attempts to look hacker-y that ends up falling a bit flat. 1337speak isn't really all that trendy anymore, except for people who make really bad passwords. I actually really cracked up about a Mr. Robot line though:

"I bet you right now some writer is working hard on a TV show that’ll mess up this generation’s idea of hacker culture."

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Out of curiosity what would be a better theme to follow that is "hacker-y" if 1337speak is not currently trendy. It is something that is deeply ingrained in the culture and was never really a trend to infosec people. It's fun. Would something be more to date if the titles were emojis?

Side-note: Attended a BlackHat training and one of the people who works on the show (didn't catch their title) was attending one of the classes. Even saw them interracting with the offenisve security[1] cr3w. This small gesture adds an air of legitimacy in the infosec crowd.

https://www.offensive-security.com/

I agree the 1337speak stuff seems played out. I like the names though because they remind me of looking for episodes of TV shows on file sharing services back 10+ years ago. Catching up on the show on Amazon instant video gave me a flashback to doing the same thing on limewire a decade ago.

yup, it's nostalgic. don't judge it by any other metric.

Plenty of people still get their TV shows via file sharing services.

Just last week I was trying to work a label on a torrent, found this page which has an overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

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