What If 'Mr. Robot' Was Real Life? Hacker Drama Is More Real Than You Want To Believe
You saw what hacking did in 'Mr. Robot'. What can it do in real life?
Sci-fi buffs everywhere are getting seriously into hacker thriller series 'Mr. Robot', available exclusively on Amazon Prime. Created by Sam Esmail and starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater, it explores the very real threats that all major corporations face at the hands of anarchist computer hackers and even cyber terrorists.
Since it's inception the show has won two Golden Globes, a Critics Choice Award, and has been nominated for four Primetime Emmys. The show is now in it’s second season and first premiered in May 2015 introducing a socially awkward and depressed computer programmer named Elliot Alderson, who works for a cyber security company called Allsafe. He spends his time hacking into the social media accounts and bank statements of various people in his life including his therapist and his colleagues, but his attention is soon caught by a cyber anarchist called Mr. Robot, who attempts to attack the computer system of E Corp, Allsafe's biggest client. Mr. Robot is part of a group of hacktivists called fsociety, who are aiming to wipe all customer debts on the E Corp database.
Elliot is soon recruited into the team but as he becomes more and more involved with fsociety, he is asked to carry out increasingly radical tasks. He gives false evidence to the police, incriminates the people who run E corp and is even asked to blow up a gas plant. Perhaps it's the heavy drug use, but he gets increasingly more delusional as the series progresses, and in the end (spoiler alert) he discovers that Mr. Robot is in fact his father. And not only that, but his father died of leukemia many years ago and so Elliot is in fact Mr. Robot, taking on his father's identity.
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