Mr. Robot: a Geek series you don't want to miss

I start by saying that I hope not to release any Spoilers, at least not intentionally XD.

### What is Mr. Robot

A few days ago a friend recommended ** Mr. Robot **, a series launched by the ** USA Network **, and that touches on a topic already covered in other series and movies but with a differential point: ** everything is more realistic **. I intended to wait a little longer to make a personal judgment, but I couldn't hold it.

Laughing television products are still coming out for those of us who know some Computer Science and know more than one Operating System. I mean those series or movies where the ** misnamed Hackers **, access the FBI or NSA networks in 2 seconds, using dubious Operating Systems with even more dubious Software, and where the Mouse is a non-existent peripheral, They do everything with the keyboard, launching 20 random windows and always showing the ones they are interested in seeing ... Incredible !!!

### Details that make the difference

In Mr. Robot, at least in the first episode they released, this is not the case and there are details that attract a lot of attention. Our protagonist, Rami Malek, who plays the character very well (called Eliot) from my point of view, is a "Hacker" at night (something like a Vigilante) and a Security expert by day.

He does not hack for money, but because he feels that something is very wrong in this world. He has problems relating to other people except Angela, and this relationship between people through a virtual or physical way, is a subject that is seen quite a bit as criticism. But let's go to the part that we will like the most.

In all his computers he uses ** GNU / Linux ** with ** GNOME **, and this is mentioned in the chapter, and I'm not saying it, you can see it in the following images:

The servers seem to use ** Unix ** or something from the ** BSD ** family. I say this by the commands shown, which although they are not difficult to understand, we can see that they are not the ones used in Linux, although of course, they can be invented. During the dialogues, well-known and quite technical terms are sometimes used, such as: DDos attacks, Denial of Services, Rootkits, … etc.

Elliot doesn't have a profile on ** Facebook ** because she doesn't like it, but she does ** Instagram **, and both uses them as a research tool. As another detail we can see that when you browse Facebook or ** GMail **, despite the fact that the interfaces are very similar to those we know, there are slight changes in the design or they omit distinctive elements such as logos and others. Of course, if we pause we can see that in GMail for example, the emails in the inbox have some relationship with the plot or the character they hacked.

He has a cell phone (clearly with Android) and he is not the typical series Hackers who access the accounts of others by magic, in several moments of the first chapter we will see how he uses ** Social Engineering **.

Beyond the technological part, there is the social point, the critical gaze. Mr Robot has a very well elaborated script, which touches on very current issues and is expressed by the protagonist on several occasions. Without wanting to advance too much, they will see your clear opinion towards Steve Jobs, Blackberry or the big technology companies. It can be seen in this chapter, for example, that senior executives do not use GNU / Linux, but hey, see for yourself.

Mr. Robot promises, and if the rest of the chapters are like this first, it will undoubtedly be one of my favorite series. I recomend it to you.