After watching this video, I am convinced that Hollywood hackers have the easiest jobs in the world. In. ovies, all they need to do is dramatically type random gibberish, yell “I’M IN,” and suddenly, the Pentagon’s security system collapses like a house of cards. Meanwhile real hackers spend hours troubleshooting why their Wi-Fi will not connect.

The media makes hacking look like a cool, neon-lit video game where every keystroke and action are accompanied by music by Prodigy or Flyleaf. Divine Heresy or Soulfly would be playing in my background. In realty, hacking is mostly sitting on a dark room, staring at code, drink Redbull, and hoping that script is working. I also do not think that every hacker is wearing a hoodie in their home. Turn up the heat. If movies were accurate, the real hacker experience would be 90% waiting for updates to install and 10% regretting their life choices.

Media distorts the understanding of cybersecurity. If hacking were easy as Hollywood make it seem, my grandmother would have hacked into NASA by now, just to look up better soup recipes.