Week 8 – Journal Entry

            While I do enjoy the way movies portray hacking, both in a good and negative light, generally it is unrealistic in its depiction of hacking. Frequently hacking is portrayed as something flashy and cool, with lots of screens and moving numbers and similar things, when in reality hacking could be as simple as you sitting on your computer in command line watching JohnTheRipper cracking away at a file. Films also tend to make hacking look cool, which might influence people to become hackers, both black hat and white hat, though I’d imagine it tends influence people more towards black hat hacking. I can’t say I’ve ever really seen a film that makes white hat hackers or cybersecurity in general look cool, certainly not something that influenced me into wanting to join this field.

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