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   Mr. Robot (TV show by Sam Esmail, 2015)

   Mr. Robot is an interesting project trying to create a television series featuring accurate “hacking” techniques and real-life events, as opposed to most “hacker” movies and series which just project the general public phantasms on the screen.

   I used to redirect people asking me for some “hacking trick” to this series, and several websites and blogs use it as a illustration to provide fundamental knowledge in IT security and help people take conscience of various risks.

   As I write this post, we have now reached the middle of the third season, and while I was and still am very enthusiastic regarding the first season my feeling are now more than mitigated about its sequel.

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   For those who haven’t seen this series yet, I won’t get into any storyline details here, except a bit when listing some season 3 issues. Most of this post should be spoiler-free, however …

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    Introduction to z/OS and IBM mainframes world and security

    Mainframes are often designated as “legacy platforms”. This triggers the mental image of those old 80’s era enormous bulky computers which can be found in any good computers museum and vintage videos, and leaves a mixed feeling about the place of such machines in todays computing world.

    However, nothing could be such wrong:

    1. A lot of the technologies which made today’s computing what it is actually owe to the mainframe world.

       Things like non-executable memory, process isolation, virtualization and symmetric multiprocessing to name just a few are all technologies that were first developed for mainframes environments, and only then ported onto other architectures.

    2. Today’s mainframes hardware has nothing in common with antique computers, they evolved as the rest of the computer world did.

       They are bulky but not as much as one may imagine, the size of a large fridge to give a rough idea. They remains …

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    Why I teach people how to hack (Ýmir Vigfússon)

    In this short TEDx talk, Ýmir Vigfússon tells us what it means to be a hacker, from the curious teenage who does not really have a “moral compass” (yet!) to the senior professional sharing his knowledge.

    He tells us what leads people in this direction, but above us he tells us how all these people, from the teenage to professional, do all benefit to the society as a whole.

    For those who may not know this text, this video has a strong feeling of the Hacker’s Manifesto, but now explained by a well-respected professional and assistant professor instead of a 11 years old teenager.

    Watch on YouTube

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    23, Karl Koch and Cliff Stoll

    23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint (1998)

    The best depiction I’ve seen so far of the state of the hackers’ world in western Germany in the 80’s. You name it: this the place and time which gave birth to the Chaos Computer Club.

    This film is an independent production (by Hans-Christian Schmid), and due to this is not very widely known which I think is a real shame. This film follows Karl Koch, a German hacker stealing information from US military systems to sell them to the KGB. But, IMHO, this is merely an excuse to provide us an overview of the hackers’ world of that time, both at the cultural and technical level, where idealism faces conspiracy theories, the desire to free the access to information meets individual and national craving for power, and Usenet groups were creating new kinds of links between people.

    

    Some people …

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