"Mr. Robot" - an ordinary chewing gum or a fraction of the truth?

Question

Information Security

Guys who watched the series - how true is everything that is shown?
That he is left and right at 25, never picking up a book in his hands and breaking Facebook accounts?

Answer 1

If you set out to purposefully hack a specific user, then this can be done in different ways.
And looking for vulnerability is far from the first way, because social engineering comes first.
But to say in advance how long it will take is a stupid question, everything is individual. There are times when a blonde cannot be hacked at all. Just because she doesn't make standard mistakes.
And the film - the truth is no more than in "Hackers". But in those days there were some tricks, now they are different. Naturally, the film will not show a dull multi-day sitting in re-reading datasheets and logs.

Answer 2

If you show the truth, then the film will not collect the box office. The truth is boring.

Answer 3

There is a lot of truth - about flash drives scattered in public places. About installing a router in the internal network.
But PaspberyPi - the whole plot branch with the rise of air conditioners - is bullshit.

Answer 4

As for the tools - partially true, I would say about 60/40 (where 60 is true). Unlike other films, they don't show some kind of ipconfig or
hackertyper as the speakers said above perfectly shows the close symbiosis of "hacking" in the network with the physical world.
The series (at least technically) is better shot than most films about hackers