{"id":240,"date":"2026-04-23T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/?p=240"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:43:02","slug":"journal-entry-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/2026\/04\/23\/journal-entry-week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry- Week #8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After watching the video, I feel like movies and TV really mess up how people see hacking and cybersecurity. Everything is always so dramatic with people typing super fast, breaking into systems in seconds, and all these crazy visuals on the screen. In reality, it&#8217;s way more slow and technical than that. The scientists in the video made it clear that real hacking takes time, skill and a lot of thinking, not just guessing a password and getting instant access. I think the media makes people believe hackers are either geniuses with superpowers or that hacking is easy, and both ideas are wrong. It also kind of takes away from how serious cybersecurity actually is. It&#8217;s not just action and excitement, it&#8217;s about protecting information and preventing real damage. Media could definitely shapes a false image, and it can make people misunderstand what cybersecurity professionals actually do.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching the video, I feel like movies and TV really mess up how people see hacking and cybersecurity. Everything is always so dramatic with people typing super fast, breaking into systems in seconds, and all these crazy visuals on the screen. In reality, it&#8217;s way more slow and technical than that. The scientists in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alewi073\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}