Hackers have broken into mainstream TV

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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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