Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gG-6Co_v4

Mr Robot is the most successful example of a small but fast-growing genre of "techno-realist" media, where the focus is on realistic portrayals of hackers, information security, surveillance and privacy, and it represents a huge reversal on the usual portrayal of hackers and computers as convenient plot elements whose details can be finessed to meet the story's demands, without regard to reality. (more…)

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