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Why CSI: Cyber Matters

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-computer-is-broadcasting-an-IP-address dept.

New submitter hypercard writes: CSI: Cyber has been the butt of many jokes in the infosec community since its inception. But in addition to facilitating lots of cyber bingo events and live tweets to call out technical errors, the show has real value in bringing awareness about infosec issues to the masses. Members of the Army Cyber Institute at West Point discuss the upside of CSI: Cyber in an article in the Cyber Defense Review. "Children all over the country have been inspired to be law enforcement agents by shows like Criminal Minds, NCIS, Bones, and CSI." One of CSI: Cyber's cast members, Shad Moss, has more followers than the entire top one thousand information security professionals on Twitter.

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  1. CSI: Cyber vs. Scorpion by drwho · · Score: 2, Funny

    race to the bottom...which series is more idiotic?

  2. Re:It gives a false view by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you saying green code isn't real?

  3. CSI: Cyber the drinking game by fibonacci8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anytime someone holds up a device and is able to determine the bugs in its source code by visually inspecting the device, take a shot.

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