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December 7, 2016 09:12 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TrEU25_p1Gc/mr-robot-has-driven-a-stake-th.html
Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon
Mr Robot is the most successful example of a small but fast-growing genre of "techno-realist" media, where the focus is on realistic portrayals of hackers, information security, surveillance and privacy, and it represents a huge reversal on the usual portrayal of hackers and computers as convenient plot elements whose details can be finessed to meet the story's demands, without regard to reality. (more…)
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