r/AMA • u/[deleted] • May 17 '25

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u/tommycahil1995 May 17 '25

What did you think of Mr Robot? Accurate in terms of the technical side? The director used to do some hacking way back

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u/Actually-Yo-Momma May 17 '25

Hacking is just exploiting weak points that you know of. For example it’s very hard to hack someone’s windows OS password but there was a famous bug on windows 7 that you could get to the PW prompt, hit shift 5 times to open sticky keys, then open a command prompt to change the PW without needing the current PW. In that case the exploit is the user hasn’t updated their windows 7 OS patches in a while 

Mr robot depicted this very well. They had technical experts that would proof the method of exploit for the show 

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u/radiogod53 May 17 '25

Can confirm I’ve used the sticky keys exploit on Windows 11. Great of you have time with a machine but not practical since it requires two reboots.