Journal 8

After watching the video on hacking and cybersecurity and how it’s portrayed in the movies, I have to say that it’s laughable to say the least. While I’ve never hacked anything before, I can safely say that hacking is not as glamorous as movies make it out to be. They make hackers in movies seem like they’re some sort of genius or computer god, typing away at the keyboard at lightning fast pace while outsmarting the enemy hackers. But in reality it usually plays out with a person sitting hunched over a keyboard typing away at a computer for hours trying to crack someone else’s password in the most exciting of scenarios. But most of the time the hackers in the real world are just script kiddies, downloading lines of code to cheat in a video game, or using social engineering tactics to gain the upper hand on individuals, who are not tech savvy to understand a real email from a false email.

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