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Warning: This piece contains minor spoilers for the most recent episode of Mr. Robot (S2E6)
Last week on Mr. Robot, the intrepid hackers of fsociety went back to command-line school. They didn’t need the training, of course. In order to access an FBI system on location at E-Corp headquarters—which currently houses a temporary FBI division after last season’s cyber-attacks—the hacker collective needed someone on the inside. Their only option was a relative n00b: Elliot Alderson’s family-friend-turned-E-Corp-employee Angela Moss.
The episode ends on a slight cliff-hanger. As Angela continues to execute instructions pumped into her headphones from fsociety, the show’s new FBI character, Dom DiPierro, arrives at her side to request a quick interview. Until that point, this newly made hacker had successfully socially engineered her way into an FBI space, executed some code in a bathroom stall, and then dropped a femtocell at an official workstation. For a show that prides itself so much on accuracy in hacking, does having a novice best the FBI go one step too far?
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Source: Ars Technica – Yes, a n00b like Angela could pull off what happened on Mr. Robot last week