{"id":384,"date":"2025-12-05T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/?p=384"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:16:23","slug":"journal-entry-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/2025\/12\/05\/journal-entry-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry #8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Watch this video and pay attention to the way that movies distort hackers.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ojA5OqOKYo&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ojA5OqOKYo&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scientists Rate 65 Scenes from Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider &#8211; YouTube\u00a0Links to an external site.<\/a> <strong>After watching the video, write a journal entry about how you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching the video, I realized how much the media shapes the way people think about cybersecurity. In movies and TV shows, hacking is often shown as fast, exciting, and full of flashing code or dramatic countdowns. These exaggerated scenes make hacking seem easy and glamorous, when in reality, cybersecurity work is much slower, more technical, and detail oriented. The media\u2019s influence can create unrealistic expectations. Many people assume hackers can break into systems instantly or that cybersecurity experts can solve major breaches in minutes. This misunderstanding can lead to both overconfidence and fear; some might think they\u2019re safe because they have antivirus software, while others believe there\u2019s no way to protect their data at all. Overall, the media oversimplifies a complex field. It tends to focus on the drama of cyberattacks instead of the everyday practices that actually protect systems, like updating software or using multi-factor authentication. While these portrayals can make cybersecurity look exciting, it\u2019s important to separate entertainment from reality and understand what real digital security work involves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this video and pay attention to the way that movies distort hackers. Scientists Rate 65 Scenes from Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider &#8211; YouTube\u00a0Links to an external site. After watching the video, write a journal entry about how you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity. After watching&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/2025\/12\/05\/journal-entry-8\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":5},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jteasley28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}