Smarten Up, Internet (the security side of this blog), sponsored a screening of the hacker movie, Reboot, Saturday night of Hack3rCon 2012 Charleston, West Virginia. How’s that for an SEO-friendly sentence.
Set within a dystopian world that is a collision between technology and humanity, “Reboot” touches upon many of the current social and political concerns that arise from becoming more and more intertwined with the virtual.
In contemporary Los Angeles, a young female hacker (Stat) awakens from unconsciousness to find an iPhone glued to her hand and a mysterious countdown ticking away on the display. Suffering from head trauma, and with little recollection of who she is or what is happening, Stat races against time to figure out what the code means, and what unknown event the pending zero-hour will bring.
It’s beautifully shot, a great premise, some of the Metasploit is sloppy, I heard it was a Kickstarter project, and the video editor in me would have reduced it down, but the beginning is really good. If you watch only that part, do, it’ll make you think.
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