It's no surprise the entertainment industry is trying to cash in. The latest in this trend of modern hacker thrillers is USA Network's Mr. Robot. From rootkits to botnets, the show certainly throws a lot of security jargon
at viewers, but is it really as smart as it thinks it is? Antivirus company Avast watched the Mr. Robot premiere this week and tried to answer that question.Elliot claims he did this by observing the perpetrator through the shop's public Wi-Fi network. Amini says this is a plausible scenario. If you don't protect yourself by using a Virtual Private Network, anyone with "just a little technical knowledge can download free software online and observe people's activities on open Wi-Fi."
