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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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… <\/p>\n