Watch video on Hacker rating Hacking scenes and write about how do you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity?

I believe that media is extremely influential on how people understand cybersecurity. The movie Hackers was touched on a little bit in this video and it influenced me deeply. I watched Hackers when I was a kid and i was obsessed. After watching it, I then went online to read anything i could about Hacking- including the “Hacker’s manifesto.” I associated hacking with just being a smart person that could get “into hard to reach” places in a computer. There is a scene at the end of Hackers where the characters are hacking into a system while out in public and on their screens are things such as a cookie monster eating files. I thought for probably about 10 years that it was a legitimate scene and that all hacking looked similar. I didn’t know it could be as simple as trying different passwords over and over until you are allowed into a particular account. As described by the woman in this youtube video, Hackers was the first movie that made me want to get into the IT field. Honestly i’m a bit sad it isn’t exactly like the movie!