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🎬 Cybersecurity Cringe in TV, Movies & Pop Culture: Share, Facepalm, and Win! 🏆

🎬 Cybersecurity Cringe in TV, Movies & Pop Culture: Share, Facepalm, and Win! 🏆
TylerM
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Happy Wednesday, cybersecurity buffs! 🌐

 

We all know that TV shows, movies, and popular culture sometimes miss the mark when it comes to accurately portraying cybersecurity. So, let's have some fun and share our favorite cringe-worthy moments from Hollywood and beyond! 🎥

 

Masterful NCIS cringe

The participant who shares the most amusing and cringe-inducing example will win a $25 Amazon Gift card 🏆 4 winners will be announced Thursday (tomorrow).

What will you win?

 

Here's how to join the fun:

1️⃣ Share a specific scene or example from a TV show, movie, or popular culture that made you cringe due to its inaccurate portrayal of cybersecurity.

2️⃣ Explain why it was so cringe-worthy and what they got wrong.

3️⃣ Engage with fellow participants by reacting to their examples and sharing your thoughts.

 

While we enjoy pointing out the inaccuracies, let's also remember that these moments can spark conversations and raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. So, let's laugh, facepalm, and learn together! 😄

Get ready to share your favorite cybersecurity cringe moments, and may the most amusing one win! 🎉

 

The first 10 community members who comment will win some SWAG (if you haven’t already won it)

SWAG

 

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Martin.1
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No matter how much of a car fanatic I am, and no matter how much we all know the Cyber world has evolved, there is one scene from FF8 for me that still remain more of a science fiction scene than something that is possible. To “hack” this multitude of cars from all different manufacturers etc.,  and have them all drive by themself is just ludacris. 

 

Clip below from YouTube.

 

 

Explain why it was so cringe-worthy and what they got wrong? Well, I would say pretty much almost everything. It is one thing to “hack” the systems of the cars (keyless entry etc) but a complete different thing to have them drive by themself, I mean, some of the cars they used here, really? :-) 

 

 


Rodney18
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  • April 5, 2023

How about this one where he decrypts the data by finding a hidden word? Not quite how encryption works. Also never plug an unknown device into your network

 

 


TripleHelix
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  • April 5, 2023

I will be back!

 

 

 

Or…

 

 


Hackers  - Everything!


TylerM
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  • April 7, 2023

@Martin.1 @Rodney18 @TripleHelix 

Congrats y’all win gift cards!

 

@davidnhansen83 - Thanks for engaging, but the ask was for a scene - You still win SWAG :)

 

 


MajorHavoc
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Sorry I have been absent for a while (work has been crazy!!!) and would have loved to have played here. 
 

And while I don’t have a specific cringeworthy example,  I point to every TV show or movie that wants to override security by simply typing “override security” at a terminal. 
 

Or the one that gets me the most yelling at the screen are the “gadgets” that get attached to computers, electronic locks, and security systems that “decode” the key/password one digit at a time, spinning a bunch of characters on a display, and then solving the code one digit, left to right. Arghhhh…

I think back to War Games at the end when the Whoper  is trying get the launch codes, one digit at a time displayed on a giant screen. SIGH!