I just saw the pilot yesterday, and aside from having a really cool storyline, the tech/lingo is surprisingly accurate. I don't want to hype it too much based off 1 episode, but the whole show feels very Dexter-esque.
I don't know if they hired good consultants, or if the TV networks are finally beginning to quit watering down the tech in their shows.
On top of that, the guy they have playing the main character is a totally convincing (yet definitely dramatized) portrayal of a security engineer/hacktivist living in the Lower East Side.
Also as was pointed out to me by another viewer - not sure how the main character expected to hide that .dat file by chmodding it to his user id. The file was held in root's HOME folder, so anything in there should be accessible only to root anyway, and root is going to be able to see any file from any user.
But I'm being a pedant and I thought it was an excellent pilot that I hope they continue. It should be compulsory viewing for the screenwriters of CSI: Cyber.
But @MarcScott - remember, you can read a file in a directory that you dont have +r on if you know the filename, as long as you have +x to change into that dir ;)
check out anonymous' unmasking of CP hidden services. they had to deploy multiple relay nodes to find the service so that one would eventually become a guard node...
Between creating a GUI in visual basic to track an IP address [1] and reality I'd say it's kind of in the middle.
But it's not "BEEP BEEP COMPUTER THINGS ARE HAPPENING".
Also is it realistic to require programmers to wear business casual at a top notch cybersecurity firm? Is this an actual thing?
edit: typo