I think media depicts cybersecurity as something insanely complicated and sometimes scary to get into. Some people hear the word hacker and get put off by that word and don’t want anything to do with hacking as they’re scared hackers will come for them when in reality they probably already have. Having cybersecurity seems complicated is a bad thing because it dissuades people from ever learning basic things. Not only is it intimidating to begin, media makes hacking seems mysterious and sometimes shows things happening that are impossible like walking into a CTF event and pointing out a mistake from a glance and also breaking the social norms by screen peeking. It shows unrealistic hacking and unrealistic cybersecurity which causes a muddied view of cybersecurity in todays media, don’t believe everything you see on tv.
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