CSI: Cyber
 

Has anyone else subjected him- or herself to that new show?

In this weeks episode, the hacker caused a digital alarm clock and Keurig coffee pot go crazy. I have a digital alarm clock right over there. It does not have a network connection.

My brother has a Keurig (the poor misguided souI). It also does not have a network connection.

Funny :)
Thanks for the review, i had thought about checking it out, maybe ill skip it :)

Frankly, I expected the "cyber" part to be a bunch of puppypoo, but I was hoping they might have good stories. The way they are going, they won't make it to next season--the plotting is weak, the acting is wooden, the direction is direction-less, the "cyber" is science fiction, and the editing is jarringly choppy and frenetic.

Other than that, it's an okay way to kill an hour.

It gets one more chance in this house, then it's back to reruns of Diagnosis Murder and Murdoch Mysteries (which is an excellent show, by the way).

SF that takes place in an alternate universe that has different laws of physics

printer burn????

now if it was a nvidia or ati card ? maybe?

the batteries ?
if they were still plugged into the wall outlet ? ok


now the roler-coster ?
maybe, but after you disable the mechanical safeties FIRST

but the subway !! no not from the car
a take over of the entire subway system ya but from the car .....

i gave it a shot

i can ignore BAD science if the story i good
or a bad story if the science is good
but NOT both !

The frustrating thing is this.

The great majority of the viewing public is going to fall for it.

I'll give the show a 50/50 chance of making it into another season. It's a very "Tom Swifty" edge-case scenario.

As I've said before, I'm not seriously alarmed about someone hacking my alarm-clock. I'm alarmed (uhh, "pun intended?") by the vast amounts of sensitive information that are being exchanged without any protection at all ... and accumulated without their knowledge or consent ... and made available to "we have no idea who, we have no idea where."

it is "public information"
BUT !!!!
access to it has changed and what can be done with it ( cost effectively ) has changed

not to long ago if you wanted the "low down" on a public figure you needed to IN PERSON go to the relevant police and court( local / district/ state) offices and in person request the public docs ( court cases )

or put a PI ( magnum-pi) on the person 24 / 7


not today.........

And then you get stuff like this.

Member response
 

Hi,

CSI: Cyber seems to be aimed at an audience that is not tech savvy.

I watched 'The Big Bang Theory' and find it hilarious when they misuse terms since most of the audience has no idea idea of the terms meanings. Sheldon is the smart a$$ genius who is hilarious when he uses/misuses terms. I've know a few Sheldons in my life and learned long ago to let them stick a foot in their mouth. The social mix in that show is balanced and we can all find or associate with someone from our life. CSI: Cyber is a big let down to me. Who ever is technically advices the program director is far off base and not even good sci-fi let alone proper terms nor associated properly with actual device uses. Maybe they need a Radio Shack salesperson to help out. I am sure there are a few to select from since RS is belly up now.

q('-')p from me for CSI: Cyber!
:hattip:

Watched the episode where some dude made printers burn stuff, and now I won't be able to use a bash terminal on my laptop in public without people thinking that I'm a hacker.

CSI : cyber hasn't made it to the UK (at least, not on the free channels), and probably won't; although we did get Numbers, which was just as silly.

Spin-offs are such a mixed bag. CSI original: passable. CSI New York: not worth watching. CSI Miami: run a mile! NCIS original and New Orleans: my favourites. NCIS Los Angeles: why did they bother?

It's a franchise now. :(

The Penelope Garcia character's 'abilities' is pure hokum.
I've never seen so much BS flying out of the television as when she does her little canned technical responses to inquiries.
Most of which seem to revolve around 4th amendment violations.
No wonder people think they have to consent to a search.

Sorry excuse for technical credibility, the whole lot of them.

CSI: Cyber - not a fan.

there are people with that skill set
BUT
the show REALLY EXAGGERATES the time and the HOW it is done
Mostly to fit into the now 43 minute time slot ( was 45 min. ) more commercials now

something that would take a few days of social engineering to use a exploit
is done in 10 seconds

I don't think that you would consider "the exact (within ± 7 feet) whereabouts of you, your spouse, and your kids, 24/7/365 every 2 minutes for the past 3 years," to be "public information." But even a "game" app could be sitting there on your phone, constantly(!) collecting that information and transmitting it ... you don't know, you don't know where, you don't know to whom. And, this mass of "marketing information" (sic) is ... well ... Knowledge Is Power.™

We have, without second thought, dispatched this information to the places in our "cloud" where the electric power is cheapest, and put it into the hands of people whose labor is cheapest, implicitly trusting(!) these people to not have minds of their own. Unfortunately, this is not a valid assumption.

We have rushed headlong into this thing.

I rather liked Numbers. It was light-hearted (silly, if you prefer), and it didn't take itself seriously as CSI: Cyber does (Numbers was the type of story that, among mystery buffs, is referred to as a "cozy"). It was irritating, though, that, whenever the Feds wanted to interview someone, they brought a SWAT team along with them.

Regarding the heedless pursuit of technology, sundialsvcs has a point; folks are doing stuff because they can, without thinking through implications and ramifications. Technological capabilities have out-raced ethical behavior, not that human beings have paid all that much attention to ethics unless they could find a way to turn a profit from it. The recent Linux Luddites podcast included an interview with Doug Hill is relevant to this. The interview comes along roughly in the second half of the recording.