Week 8 – Journal Entry

After watching the video “Hacker rates 12 Hacking Scenes in Movies and TV | How real is it?” I came to the conclusion that the media influences our understanding for cybersecurity in many ways. For starters it takes the process of hacking and makes it look much easier than what it actually is. In the video Keren goes through these hacking scenes and breaks down the actual process and how much longer it would take for one to actually hack into a system for example in the show Mr.Robot, Karen breaks down how much longer it would actually take to hack a registrar emphasizing that it would take much longer than just the 2 seconds displayed in the show. Inconclusion these films and TV shows take forms of hacking and cybersecurity and display them to be easier than what it really is which can give the influence that just anybody can do it when that is not necessarilly the case.