Tag: tv

  • Mr. Shodan

    Mr. Shodan

    Mr. Robot season 3 is off to a great start. As per usual, the episode features tonnes of Easter eggs for hacker nerds. But I have to admit I was a little surprised to see a shodan.io cameo. Shodan is a search engine for things connected to the web that isn’t a web server.  Web…


  • astsu: why Mr Robot is the most tech-savvy show ever

    astsu: why Mr Robot is the most tech-savvy show ever

    I finally watched the pilot episode of Mr Robot and I was totally blown away by the way the handle the hacking aspects of the show. If you haven’t seen the show, the main character is a professional security engineer by day and a “cyber vigilante” at night. It’s great! Every aspect of the way Elliot…


  • TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files

    TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files

    I’ve been re-watching The X-Files on Netflix. 1997’s season 5 has an abnormally high number of good monster of the week episodes. Today I watched Episode 11, “Kill Switch,” a story in which rouge AI has sexy-time with Mulder. I was pleasantly surprised (then not surprised at all in hindsight) to find out that the…