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Hackers have broken into mainstream TV
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:11:43 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/10/19/hackers-on-tv/17432191/ By Ann Oldenburg USA TODAY October 19, 2014 Hackers are hot.Yes, they tend to be villains in real life, making headlines for tapping into Target to steal credit card data, breaking into the cloud to snatch nude celebrity photos, and even breaching government firewalls to commit all sorts of top-level cybercrimes.
But on TV? They're the new heroes."Hackers are often unfairly portrayed as super-bad people, super-evil people," says Nick Santora, executive producer of Scorpion, CBS's new hit about hackers who help solve high-tech threats. "The truth is, hackers can provide a valuable service. They can uncover government misdeeds, unfair corporate practices. Hackers have a skill set that most people don't have. It's a skill set that's really useful and important. They're the watchers of the watchers."
Scorpion, airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, premiered to a lot of its own watchers in September with a healthy 13.8 million viewers and is the No. 2 new show this fall, behind NCIS: New Orleans. And, according to a study released last week, the show has had the most positive word of mouth of all the new fall broadcast network series.
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