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A Critical Look At CSI: Cyber

Posted by timothy on from the war-games-did-it-better dept.

Trailrunner7 writes with the introduction to a Threatpost article (best read without coffee near your keyboard) about the new CSI: Cyber: The show centers on the Cyber Crime Division at the FBI, a perfectly focus-grouped cast headed by Special Agent Avery Ryan. She is a former behavioral psychiatrist whose practice fell apart when–spoiler alert!–all of her case files were stolen by a hacker who then murdered one of her patients. Now she is on a mission to "turn" hackers one at a time to the path of righteousness. She is aided in this noble quest by the guy who played Dawson, former child rapper Lil Bow Wow, and the two h4x0r caricatures: a bearded, wisecracking guy named Daniel Krumitz who is the "greatest white hat hacker in the world", and Raven Ramirez, whom we know is a hacker because she has dyed hair. Also, because her name is Raven.

As a public service, the Threatpost team, Mike Mimoso, Dennis Fisher, Brian Donohue and Chris Brook, watched the first episode of CSI: Cyber and kept a running chat log of the "action."

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  1. Drinking game by Phreakiture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It sounds like this show is just screaming out for a drinking game.

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    1. Re:Drinking game by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Considering how many of the damn things there are in syndication, that sounds like a recipe for alcohol poisoning.

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  2. Great, now we can all act... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    like asshats.

    These shows do nothing but lobotomize the public into believing the current government's agenda of spying has a moral high ground.

  3. Re:could not keep watching it by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was going to say people aren't that stupid.

    But then I remembered that old episode of The Wire where they stick a kid's hand on a copier machine, ask him questions like it's a lie detector, and after he answers, a detective presses the copy button and "LIE" on a piece of paper comes out. The kid actually fell for it when the detectives structured the questions to show he was lying and he broke down and revealed the truth of the incident and gave them their lead.

    Found it, apparently based on real life Baltimore PD interrogation techniques:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    So I guess they could make this new CSI Cyber even 10x more stupid, and a few months later you'd probably start hearing from people something like...

    the NSA can use coffee cups to playback conversations from half an hour ago because of reverberating echoes still trapped inside the cup.

    (I just made that up, CSI writing team: give me attribution please.)

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