After watching, “Hacker Rates 12 Hacking Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?” by Insider, I think the media influences our understanding of cybersecurity by making it look cooler and more fun than it actually is, is because these movies are just showing the most interesting part. Most of these cyber attacks or missions require a lot of time and dedication, and most of these movies make it seem like it happens within a matter of seconds. Each movie shows different types of attacks that are real, but they just use fake codes and tactics to carry it out. All of these attacks are real-life attacks but because it is the movies and tv shows you can’t really show the real stuff. People are influenced by what they watch and most movies based cybersecurity around hacking or cracking passwords. They use a device called the password slot machine and the password is picked character by character. This is an example of something that is fake because there is no way to figure out passwords character by character. Another thing that the movie gets wrong is uploading viruses normally hackers have to send code to other computers to crack them but in movies, they connect to anything on a laptop and spread viruses to wherever. They also create the picture of hacking through coding and big lines of code on the screens its normally big lines of green code that are hard to read and a hacker writes some random word to shut the whole thing down. The movies do make cybersecurity and hacking look cool though so it might attract people to the field.