how realistic is hacking in mr robot?

[wubbelflup]

i don't know much about hacking. but it's the first movie or series that actually feels pretty believable. most of it that is.

any peeps with a little more know-how that have opinions/ideas bout this?

i'm half way into season 2 but if spoiling makes you hard by all means lol.
prefer to not hear major plot stuff though.

[Snow]

It lacks details for obvious reasons, but it is one of the most accurate hacking ever shown on TV.

[trousers]

Extremely. It's ever so slightly silly sometimes... but so's real life sometimes. All the tools, techniques, tactics, etc; they're nearly all real or based on reality.

[wubbelflup]

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It lacks details for obvious reasons, but it is one of the most accurate hacking ever shown on TV.

Początkowo opublikowane przez AAAAAAA A TRAIN:

Extremely. It's ever so slightly silly sometimes... but so's real life sometimes. All the tools, techniques, tactics, etc; they're nearly all real or based on reality.

do yall have any experience with programming? expertise?

[Snow]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Snow:

It lacks details for obvious reasons, but it is one of the most accurate hacking ever shown on TV.

Początkowo opublikowane przez AAAAAAA A TRAIN:

Extremely. It's ever so slightly silly sometimes... but so's real life sometimes. All the tools, techniques, tactics, etc; they're nearly all real or based on reality.

do yall have any experience with programming? expertise?

So we could tell you all the parts that are not shown in the show? No thanks.

[wubbelflup]

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do yall have any experience with programming? expertise?

So we could tell you all the parts that are not shown in the show? No thanks.

haha, no because i'm curious if you're qualified to answer XD

you don't have to share your linkedinn with me, don't worry. XD
but b.t.w. i have this briliant scam idea....
jk.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Hacking is accurately represented in nothing. Because it's just boring as crap.

It doesn't make it good show.

[Vuitton Vampire]

just wanna say ive never heard of this show , but I have prime so im gonna check it out. Thanks for the indirect reco lol

[Azza ☠]

Being an IT Security Expert, I would suggest that they are completely plausible.

If you are really curious, you will even find all the onscreen IP addresses, URLs, and QR codes actually lead viewers to real destinations. Quite like hidden easter eggs.

[trousers]

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Being an IT Security Expert, I would suggest that they are completely plausible.

If you are really curious, you will even find all the onscreen IP addresses, URLs, and QR codes actually lead viewers to real destinations. Quite like hidden easter eggs.

Yeah, that was one of the fun things about the show. They really put a lot in for, ahem, nerds.

[Azza ☠]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Azza ☠:

Being an IT Security Expert, I would suggest that they are completely plausible.

If you are really curious, you will even find all the onscreen IP addresses, URLs, and QR codes actually lead viewers to real destinations. Quite like hidden easter eggs.

Yeah, that was one of the fun things about the show. They really put a lot in for, ahem, nerds.

One example: The following IP addresses in the show shown as: 192.251.68.239, 192.251.68.250, and 192.251.68.254, all lead to a pretty taunting and very disturbing image of a laughing pixilated FSociety mask, mockingly informing the user that "Your Personal Files Are Encrypted."

There's a 24 hour countdown on the bottom of the screen. You can either hack it or wait 24 hours for the surprise quote, encoded in a base64 string. Then use a base64 decoder on it.

ps: I'm an ex-hacker, not a nerd! Haha, it's pretty basic stuff, but still a bit of amusement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MF2s6MLxY

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Azza ☠:

Being an IT Security Expert, I would suggest that they are completely plausible.

If you are really curious, you will even find all the onscreen IP addresses, URLs, and QR codes actually lead viewers to real destinations. Quite like hidden easter eggs.

At least 9.5/10, some truths are a little streeeched, like guessing passwords. But nothing has been completely impossible.

Lol at easter eggs, any good ones?

[Azza ☠]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Azza ☠:

Being an IT Security Expert, I would suggest that they are completely plausible.

If you are really curious, you will even find all the onscreen IP addresses, URLs, and QR codes actually lead viewers to real destinations. Quite like hidden easter eggs.

At least 9.5/10, some truths are a little streeeched, like guessing passwords. But nothing has been completely impossible.

Lol at easter eggs, any good ones?

One I mentioned above...

For those that can't decode it: PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0ib3ZlciI+PGRpdj4iSSBzaW5jZXJlbHkgYmVsaWV2ZSB0aGF0IGJhbmtpbmcgZXN0YWJsaXNobWVudHMgYXJlIG1vcmUgZGFuZ2Vyb3VzIHRoYW4gc3RhbmRpbmcgYXJtaWVzLCBhbmQgdGhhdCB0aGUgcHJpbmNpcGxlIG9mIHNwZW5kaW5nIG1vbmV5IHRvIGJlIHBhaWQgYnkgcG9zdGVyaXR5LCB1bmRlciB0aGUgbmFtZSBvZiBmdW5kaW5nLCBpcyBidXQgc3dpbmRsaW5nIGZ1dHVyaXR5IG9uIGEgbGFyZ2Ugc2NhbGUuIjwvZGl2PjxkaXYgY2xhc3M9ImF1dGhvciI+LSBUaG9tYXMgSmVmZmVyc29uPC9zcGFuPjwvZGl2PjwvZGl2Pg==

Is Base 64 Encryption decrypted to the message:

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
– Thomas Jefferson"

Then by inspecting the SSL certificate for that webserver, you get a list of others.

DNS Name=www.racksure.com
DNS Name=racksure.com
DNS Name=*.serverfarm.evil-corp-usa.com
DNS Name=www.e-corp-usa.com
DNS Name=iammrrobot.com
DNS Name=www.conficturaindustries.com
DNS Name=www.iammrrobot.com
DNS Name=*.seeso.com
DNS Name=*.evil-corp-usa.com
DNS Name=e-corp-usa.com
DNS Name=*.bxjyb2jvda.net
DNS Name=whoismrrobot.com
DNS Name=seeso.com
DNS Name=fsoc.sh
DNS Name=www.fsoc.sh
DNS Name=conficturaindustries.com
DNS Name=whereismrrobot.com
DNS Name=www.whoismrrobot.com
DNS Name=www.whereismrrobot.com
DNS Name=evil-corp-usa.com
DNS Name=www.seeso.com

Another is the puzzle at the website: https://fsoc.sh

You may notice that the cursor is blinking with random intervals. That's morse code, but I suck with decoding morse code and would rather snoop the script file under '/assets/main.js'

Then there's the eye movement. What does it spell?

"Leave me here"

There's a bunch of them.

Another will lead you to the End Game: https://www.whoismrrobot.com/endgame/

[iceman1980]

 
import base64

def parse_base_64decode(passed_str):
    parsed = base64.b64decode(passed_str)
    return parsed;

print(parse_base_64decode("""PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0ib3ZlciI+PGRpdj4iSSBzaW5jZXJlbHkgYmVsaWV
2ZSB0aGF0IGJhbmtpbmcgZXN0YWJsaXNobWVudHMgYXJlIG1vcmUgZGFuZ2Vyb3VzIHRoYW4gc3RhbmRpbmcgYXJta
WVzLCBhbmQgdGhhdCB0aGUgcHJpbmNpcGxlIG9mIHNwZW5kaW5nIG1vbmV5IHRvIGJlIHBhaWQgYnkgcG9zdGVyaXR5
LCB1bmRlciB0aGUgbmFtZSBvZiBmdW5kaW5nLCBpcyBidXQgc3dpbmRsaW5nIGZ1dHVyaXR5IG9uIGEgbGFyZ2Ugc2NhbGUuIjwvZGl2Pjxka
XYgY2xhc3M9ImF1dGhvciI+LSBUaG9tYXMgSmVmZmVyc29uPC9zcGFuPjwvZGl2PjwvZGl2Pg=="""))


b'<div class="over">
<div>
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
</div>
<div class="author">
- Thomas Jefferson
</span>
</div>
</div>'

Base64 isn't encryption. It is an ecoding scheme it does not follow either Symmetrical such as AES or Asymmetrical encryption. Or Public Key Cryptography such as RSA and Public-key-private-key infrastructure.

Other encoding schemes are
Base64
Base32
Base16 (Hexadecimal)
Base10 (Decimal)
Base8 (Octal)
Base7
Base2 (Binary)

Początkowo opublikowane przez Azza ☠:

Being an IT Security Expert,

And so on. Also to be a "security" expert You'd need knowledge in a number of fields, namely

But before any of the below you'd need to be familiar with PDU encapsulation and OSI model layer Encapsulation e.g

Layer 7 (Application HTTP, FTP, SIP,etc) protocols
Layer 6 (Presentation how data is presented to an application layer encryption is also carried out here)
Layer 5 (Initiation /
Layer 4 (Transport UDP / TCP port setup / association)
Layer 3 (IP packet encapsulation either Datagrams or Streams)
Layer 2 (Frames, HDLC,PPP,V.25 and Frame-Relay)
Layer 1 (Physical wiring/ Radiowaves/ Microwaves, Fibreoptic cabling).

Firewall configuration / Evasion (Some CISCO Firewalls are exceptionally smart)

Vulnerability assessment
Host recon-analysis
IDS / IPS configuration, evasion, and exploitation.
You must know programming, you can't be a "Security Expert in IT" without at least a in depth knowledge of C, C++ and ASM not to mention you also need knowledge in python as most "pen-test tools" allow for dynamic scripting via python code usually. NMAP, Nessus and even THCHydra and OCLCUDACAT / OCLHASHCAT

And lastly you'd also need an in depth knowledge of the Linux OS and shell. Scripts are often used for automated testing like using grep-like expressions to test permutation or combination space of passwords.

[White Knight]

My 'puter nerd friends, who work and teach in their field, are certainly very impressed with that show. They would hate it with a passion if it didn't ring true.

[iceman1980]

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My 'puter nerd friends, who work and teach in their field, are certainly very impressed with that show. They would hate it with a passion if it didn't ring true.

Thing is I do study / know C, C++, Python, and partial ASM. I know how the "general CPU registers work". Writing ASM on INTEL chips is complicated because you don't just contend with the 64bit instructions RDX, RCX RDI,