Why CSI: Cyber Matters

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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ACK..PHHT

[craighansen]

If only it had some concept of citizen's right to privacy. Instead, it breathlessly celebrates the death of the 4th amendment.

Re:ACK..PHHT

[LessThanObvious]

Exactly. I haven't seen this specific show, but every other crime drama on TV seems to portray the cops as being able to go snatch information from just about anything they can get into, through any means, without any discussion of a warrant. These shows are training our young people that cops can do just about anything they want in the online world as long as they are chasing an alleged bad guy. Law enforcement may play pretty fast and loose in reality, but it isn't good to teach the public that it's standard procedure to hack into whatever they please and grab data from all sorts of sources that a reasonable person would consider private.

It gives a false view

[BarbaraHudson]

It gives a false view of what's possible, what's plausible, how things work, etc. In other words, it sucks.

That's no better than kids saying they want to be Superman or a Ninja Turtle because they saw it on TV.

And the acting ... god-awful.

But what can you expect from scripts that were written by former employees of the National Enquirer.