Mr. Robot

[mikegioia]

I just saw the pilot yesterday, and aside from having a really cool storyline, the tech/lingo is surprisingly accurate. I don't want to hype it too much based off 1 episode, but the whole show feels very Dexter-esque.

[mortenjorck]

The trailer turned me off with the usual "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING" foley work. Do they avoid that in the episode?

[litmus]

yeah, they had me until he clicked on the search button with his mouse.....yeah, his mouse. who the hell does that? It's just not rhetorical, is there any one out here that clicks the search button on google instead of hitting enter right after they typed?

Also is it realistic to require programmers to wear business casual at a top notch cybersecurity firm? Is this an actual thing?

edit: typo

[pj_mukh]

For the confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4fRXGyIak

[lawl]

Thanks! I had no idea what that was supposed to be.

Unfortunately I can't watch the full episode though, because "this content is currently unavailable", presumably because it's a non-US IP. Not sure when they'll learn, I don't want to wait for a crappy german synchronisation that kills 90% of the jokes and I especially don't want to wait 6 month for it.

Welp, torrent it is I guess. Just don't accuse me of stealing.

[digi_owl]

Much better than a different trailer i watched where he basically walked up to a dude in a coffee shop and revealed the dude was running a server containing triple digit terabytes of child porn...

[ackalker]

Irony isn't lost on those of us who are not USian (that's 95.5% of the world's population, last I checked), some of whom may feel compelled to take their first steps into the world of hacking (monkeying around with IP anonymizers, proxies, VPNs and all that, or going straight for the inevitable torrent) just to be able to watch that pilot episode. Way to go, dudes!

[mmrasheed]

I am not a lawyer. But, if a program is not distributed in your part of the world officially, it's not supposed to be illegal to download from different source. After all, the company is not losing any business. So, why not torrent it?

[poppup]

TV producers attempt to instill fear in order to hook viewers into watching it.

So they are using a TV show to make money to try to climb the ladder to the 1% if they aren't already there themselves.

<frauds>

[crimsonalucard]

We're all <frauds>. The show has a realistic depiction of social anxiety but an unrealistic depiction of heroism. There's darkness in all of us.

[tomphoolery]

Seems to just be a viral marketing site, but I'm still hoping there's some kind of Alternate Reality Game that we just haven't discovered yet!

[morb]

"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

[MarcScott]

This was the only "tech" part that I found cringe-worthy. I was able to watch the rest of the show without jumping out of my seat and shouting "That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works."

[angersock]

No openbox? Scrubs.

[suprgeek]

Very cool storyline but the excessive voice-over can be a little grating. Fight club meets Hackers meets Men in Black

Here is the full episode (without the hoops) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxvvnWvffM

[MarcScott]

Fight Club is spot on. If the Mr Robot doesn't turn out to be a facet of the protagonists mind, I'll be very surprised.

[mmmooo]

interestingly, when the psuedo 'irc' connection is created, the user's ip address looks to be intended to be the source address..but because someone forgot that there's an akamai proxy in the middle (and didn't adjust for X-Forwarded-For or whatever), the ip you actually get is the akamai ip (its also in the source)

   <script>
    var USER_IP = '23.62.236.92';

Was curious since the ip appeared real, but wasn't mine.

[black_puppydog]

I like that the kind of text used in this... marketing website (?) could easily fall under the new definitions of terror proposed by e.g. US and UK governments...

[Lord_DeathMatch]

And a fun little easter egg; the undocumented "420" command.

[mmrasheed]

I found the IP addresses shown in that episode during the DDoS attack on evil corp. somewhat entertaining - 155.334.31.97, 155.264.991.875, 155.644.22.673,......

For a split second, I thought, I learned them wrong...

[digi_owl]

Hollywood and the like early on learned to not put real phone numbers into movies etc. Putting in non-functional ip addresses are just as sensible, especially when some teen can point a DDOS at it in a second.

[manigandham]

The anarchy stuff is tiring though. Again with the whole evil corp stuff and framing the top guy. Why?

Just because the girl was removed from the meeting isn't reason enough to start attacking a company.

[jcoffland]

I bet you are fun to watch movies with.

[jcoffland]

Best line from the pilot, "I'm an executive. I mean why am I even running Linux?"

[networkjester]

Full pilot episode for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxvvnWvffM

[ackalker]

Correction: for a small minority of those potentially interested, see my previous comment. For everyone else: welcome to the world of the hacking underdogs :)

[k0m155ar]

"Current Balance 197,455.64 Last Statement Balance 196,955.64 Minimum Payment Due 500"

I think they have it backwards, plus it looks like she lucked out with a zero interest loan.

[eljimmy]

So... did anyone else try to rm -fr /?

[masterminding]

Cool site, but I'd rather be informed on how to join the 1%, instead of being grouped with the 99% yet again.

[crimsonalucard]

From a probability standpoint, there is more to gain for you as an individual when you improve the lives of the 99% then to find ways to join the 1%.