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Credit to Author: Yael Grauer| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:33:12 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n Not only does Mr. Robot set the bar for dystopian hacker suspense thrillers, it’s also a great hacking show that’s true to the culture and portrays technology authentically. So I gathered some of the smartest hackers I know in a Keybase group chat to talk about the show. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity.) This week’s team of experts include:<\/i><\/p>\n This week we discussed Capture the Flag<\/a>, reverse shell tools, and Shodan.io:<\/p>\n Yael: <\/b>Shall we talk about Stage 2?<\/p>\n Micah: <\/b>So Stage 2 is a plan for a straight-up terrorist attack? They’re planning on taking down a whole building, with people in it and everything? Eliot didn’t know what stage 2 was until this episode, but Mr. Robot planned for it all along,<\/p>\n Jen: <\/b>It sounds like yes, they want to blow up a building. Not sure why it’s necessary to have people inside.<\/p>\n Freddy<\/b>: Last season they also talked about “blowing up” Evil Corp, but in season 1, Elliot said, “you can’t convince me with this David Koresh shit,” so I’m not sure. It’s possible Mr. Robot is leading it all and Elliot has no clue. But blow up\/burn down might be a small distinction.<\/p>\n Harlo<\/b>: He does say that in this episode. “Blowing up all those people” along with docs, land deeds, etc.<\/p>\n Yael<\/b>: And everyone’s student loans.<\/p>\n Harlo<\/b>: I WON’T CRY IF THAT HAPPENS.<\/p>\n Freddy: <\/b>https:\/\/www.techworm.net\/2014\/11\/redhack-hacks-turkeys-electric-distribution-company-website-delete-bills-worth-1-5-trillion-turkish-lira.html<\/a><\/p>\n Yael:<\/b> Yeah, I think Mr. Robot wanted to blow it up and Elliot wanted to stop that, which is why he got shot. Why aren’t they having a discussion about tactics? How to blow up the building with nobody in it?<\/p>\n Freddy:<\/b> <\/a>Sounds like they were going to burn down the building (IMHO) and not blow it up. I don’t know why Darlene said that. Hacking the UPS (uninterrupted power supplies) sets off a fire, no?<\/p>\n Jen:<\/b> Ah yeah, you’re right. UPS fires can’t melt steel beams, though.<\/p>\n Harlo<\/b>: Well, it’s all in this bin file, you see.<\/p>\n Yael<\/b>: Elliot is freaking out when he finds out plan 2 is taking place and he… calls 911 and hangs up, turns on some bug scanner, and gets on a laptop that’s been unattended for a week?<\/p>\n Freddy<\/b>: I thought it was a white noise generator<\/p>\n Micah<\/b>: His laptop, like all computers in this show, was running Kali Linux<\/a>. Well, not all computers, but all h4x0r computers.<\/p>\n Jason<\/b>: Kali is easy for a producer to put on a bootable disk and plug in as needed.<\/p>\n Yael<\/b>: Well, Elliot DOES use Protonmail, so he lost his hacker kewl a long time ago, at least with me. I bet he wouldn’t even use Keybase chat.<\/p>\n Harlo<\/b>: Somebody get Kor on the phone and tell him about Qubes.<\/p>\n Matt<\/b>: Yeah, I wanna see Qubes OS. No shade to the collection of tools by offensive security but not everyone is rolling with Kali on their box.<\/p>\n Jen<\/b>: Yeah, they should show Elliot’s Kali AppVM if they really want to be realistic.<\/p>\n Jason<\/b>: Also, you can run Kali in Qubes.<\/p>\n\n