After watching the video, write a journal entry about how you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity. 

Hollywood has incredibly over dramatized what hacking looks like. While they have gotten slightly more accurate, they still take a lot of liberties. They tend to fall back into the easy stereotypes of the lone wolf quickly exploiting a system in super dramatic fashions. This is rarely how it works. It is much slower and less dramatic than that. Hackers also rarely work alone. Hacking is typically a lengthy process of finding vulnerabilities in the targeted systems and building a method to exploit them. Hackers in movies and TV shows often seem to have computing power and superhuman brain power and abilities on a computer. This is also unrealistic. While the best funded hackers might be backed with some server farms and have a a decent number of resources available, the guy spoofing Wi-Fi in a Starbucks and getting your information does not have that available. While these scenes and stereotypes are often incredibly unrealistic, they can still serve a purpose. Movies and TV shows about hacking can boost public awareness of the threats around them. 

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