Hacker Drama Mr. Robot Is Scary, Paranoia-Inducing, and Awesome

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http://gizmodo.com/hacker-drama-mr-robot-is-scary-paranoia-inducing-and-1713408001

By Bryan Lufkin
Gizmodo
June 24, 2015

If you could hack into an evil corporation’s bank account and shuffle its 
wealth to the 99%, would you? That’s the Anonymous-era quandary a young, 
brilliant hacker grapples with in the new USA drama, Mr. Robot, which 
premiers tonight at 10 p.m. I got a chance to hang out with the cast as 
they were filming in New York.

The pilot’s been up on YouTube for a few weeks now, though—something 
unusual and refreshing for a cable show—and if you haven’t watched yet, 
watch.

Here’s the gist: Main character Elliot (Rami Malek) is an antisocial 
computer genius who works at a cybersecurity firm that protects a 
sinister, Enron-like megacorp. But he moonlights as a vigilante hacker, 
busting scum like kiddie porn wranglers for fun. One day, he’s drafted by 
an underground hacker group that’s led by Mr. Robot, played by a scruffy 
Christian Slater. He asks Elliot to help him unleash cyber doom on 
Elliot’s uber-rich client in a digital Robin Hood-like raid of history 
book proportions.

Talking to the cast, it sounds like prepping for their hacker roles scared 
the crap out of them. They talked about putting tape over their laptop 
webcams, paranoid that someone could hack into it to look at and listen to 
them.

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