I think that the media industry and the multiple platforms they occupy have a very influential impact not just in cybersecurity, but in general. From news outlets, big and silver screens, video games, to social media, these platforms have the ability to reach the most people in the shortest amount of time. In days before the readily available internet, what information was shown through these platforms was often taken as truth depending on their reputation. Now, you have at your fingertips the means to verify anything shown or told to you. The big and silver screens, especially, try to make a good storyline with action and intrigue and often skew details with the hope that the viewers either don’t notice the mistakes or are just not knowledgeable enough to ever recognize what is occurring. In the Youtube video that prompted this journal entry, a seasoned hacker was asked to rate the accuracy of various movie clips that involved black hat or white hat hacking. All movies had inaccuracies when it came to performing some type of hacking and most had some accurate things. It is safe to assume that the producers if they were actual hackers, would not betray the trust of other hackers and broadcast potential playbooks into what they do, so the inaccuracies are probably purposely placed. If the producers are not hackers, they probably would utilize a consultant of some capacity, but that consultant would play both sides of the field and give just enough information to make the movie seem relevant, but not enough to upset their hacker colleagues. Even though the information presented is not accurate in depiction, it does heighten awareness that those types of concepts are possible and if not available now, could be available in the future.