Als je Mr. Robot kijkt en begrijpt is de kans groot dat je meer van ICT of Pentesten weet dan de gemiddelde computer gebruiken en TV kijker. Want zoals ik al diverse keren eerder zei, is dat deze show het hacken van systemen op een zeer realistische manier laat zien en gebruikt maakt van bestaande hacker tools. Andre McGregor is de adviseur voor de show en deze had een interview met de website Arstechnica en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.

If Mr. Robot ultimately proves to be pop culture's best depiction of hacking culture, people like McGregor will be a big reason why. The Director of Cybersecurity at Tanium joined Mr. Robot as a consultant for S2 after show creator Sam Esmail encountered the company at CES. Before his latest role, McGregor spent his entire career in IT and security. He worked as an engineer at Goldman Sachs and became an IT director elsewhere before the feds came calling. "The FBI recruited me to come to the academy, and they taught me to take a punch, arrest people, shoot a gun, and then said 'let's go fight some bad people who are hacking,'" he said.

McGregor worked with the FBI in the NYC office during some of the most high-profile hacks in the 21st century: incidents involving China, Russia, Iran, Anonymous, and Lulzsec. "There was never a quiet day as an FBI agent in NYC," he said. "There were times where I had trouble sleeping." In this week's Decrypted podcast (hosted by yours truly), he mentioned a few specific examples like Iran hacking US water dams and China exfiltrating US data.