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Comment by rwhitman | Hacker News Reader

The coolest thing about this show I discovered was that every hack depicted is actually tested to see if it would work, and the screenshots cut into the show are always shown in the correct order of execution. Amazing.

Wish there was a clip on YouTube but their tech consultant Kor Adana explains it in the "Hacking Robot" panel discussion they ran after the season premiere (around 8:50 tons of ads sorry): http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101

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Yeah, S02E01 impressed me in particular. The SET usage, ransomware, and IRC logs all seemed 100% accurate.

Only part that's not quite accurate is Cryptowall would never be used for this, since it's a specific ransomware family used to collect money from generally unknowledgeable end users. In reality, they probably would've written their own lightweight ransomware.

If they changed it to some other pun ("Cryptofence" or something), that would've made it a bit more realistic.

Tech consultants are listed here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KorAdana/status/75348166244558028...

@KorAdana @ryankaz42 @AndreOnCyber @MOBLAgentP @IntelTechniques @marcwrogers

I still do not believe that the Steel Mountain hack could be pulled off the way they did it.

They worked with Chinese hackers in order to pull it off. Most likely working for the Chinese government to hack into US servers and steal data without getting noticed.

I'm not sure how the data tapes got erased, but they planted a Raspberry PI to the heating system to turn up the heat and fry them all? Bypassing safety checks and displaying normal readings to the people monitoring it? Wouldn't those people feel the heat going up and panic?

plausible imho. data tapes could be in area A where people rarely go. admins could be in area B. temps could be set higher in area A, but not in B, at 4 am on a saturday night.

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