By looking at the videos, well Hollywood is Hollywood, it has made it very entertaining in
depicting cyberattacks and hackers. I have always been fascinated by how smart and
cool hacking is displayed, so cool, easy and practical. They make it seem so classy,
uncomplicated, and fast, so fast with so many pop-ups, and with many imaginary tech
and gadgets not invented yet. Some parts can be true, and can be also scary, stealing
people’s identities, phishing attacks which happen so often. Some hackers are smart
and super skilled at what they do, and can write data code fast, but not as fast as they
are reading it and solving it in movies.
Realistically, cybersecurity is not that exciting like it is depicted to be on the big screen,
it takes time and lots and lots of patience and research on what they actually want to
hack.
One thing the media has done right is that hacking types are becoming more and more
popular, now with actual conventions for people to compete and show their skills, it has
become more acceptable in our society, and people will network within to be able to
excel and learn more skills. Also by advertising it, people can take advantage of the
information to create better safeguards to protect their systems, and be willing to invest
a little more to enhance their security measures, training and policies.
Just like movies predicted some of the technological advantages, my belief is that it will
happen again, and it’s happening now. With Japan’s new downloading speeds and AI
new groundbreaking features, advancing and breaking innovations in real time, it is not
so hard to predict that many of the features predicted can actually happen, very soon.
It is hard to predict how far our understanding will change in the future, it is just that
breakthroughs are happening very often, and our new media today, will be old and
obsolete tomorrow, but one thing for sure is, that cybersecurity is reinventing its coarse
as well, like with interdisciplinary studies has help us better understand the coarse.