So by looking at the title of this your probably wondering why I have a picture of a TV show that plays on the CW. Well I just got done watching the most recent episode of this and surprising it related to my Computer Science class!
The show you see here is called Arrow. This show follows the story line of the DC comic book hero, The Green Arrow. In this show he is a "vigilantly/hero" and protects his city from super villains and other sorts of bad guys that terrorise his home of Starling City.
In the most recent episode (season 3, episode 5, The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak) the villains that are portrayed are called hacktivists. This instantly made me think of my computer science class, since this was a topic of discussion in the earlier part of the term. Without spoiling the hole entire episode for anyone reading this I won't go into too much detail but the one other part besides the "hacking" was when the super villain used Phishing. Now I've talked about this in my other blogs but throwout the episode there is a part where the villain uses phishing to gain information/ an upper hand on the arrow and his colleagues as you can guys this creates a pretty good twist within the show and makes it much more enjoyable than just the hero always winning at every point in the show.
Anyways going back to the reason for blogging about this, I found it was interesting how no matter what your doing things will always seem to make a full circle connection to something else in your life, even if the two seem completely unrelated.
I have been surprised by how many different forms of media(movies, TV, games) are now including hacktivists and cyber warfare. It is a trend that is likely to continue as we become more dependent on computers and the Internet. However, I only started to notice after we discussed it in class. Hacktivism is everywhere these days.
ReplyDeleteFrom your description, I can't tell if the TV show was really using the term "Hacktivism" correctly, or whether they were conflating it with just "hacking". Were the people behind the hacking attempting to achieve some sort of political/social change, or making a statement? Or were they merely hacking for greed or personal interest?
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