https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/33779/how-mr-robot-fudged-its-hacks-to-protect-the-public
By Adam Shepherd
ITPro.co.uk
June 5, 2019
AMC's Mr. Robot is a modern Robin Hood tale about a gang of hacktivists
taking on a morally reprehensible multinational corporation. The show has
garnered particular attention for the authenticity with which it portrays
hacking and cybersecurity, and showrunner Sam Esmail went to great pains
to make sure all of the hacks shown in the series were plausible and
realistic – up to a point.
James Plouffe, a strategic technologist at MobileIron, was one of many
cybersecurity industry practitioners that Esmail brought in to advise the
writers on the technical elements of fsociety's hacks and exploits.
According to Plouffe, there was some debate among the show's writers and
technical experts as to exactly how true to life the fictional
anarcho-hacker collective's exploits should be.
"You wanted to get it right, but not right enough that someone could
copy," he explained in an interview with IT Pro. "And I don't want to
spoil it for folks who haven't seen some of the things that take place in
season three, but I remember kicking around some of the ideas to make
certain things happen. And there was this debate between those of us who
are working as tech consultants about whether or not it was technically
feasible, and a little bit of research suggested that it was."
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