Mr. Robot

“One is Mr. Robot. And even when I was on Silicon Valley, I kind of said like, this is the gold standard for both playback and technical accuracy.”

“Any URL, web address, IP address, host name that you see on any of our screens, any QR code, any barcode that you see anywhere on the show in the frame of Mr. Robot will lead you somewhere and it will lead you to a puzzle.”

“I mean, the code that we're using, yes. But we're not going to show, we never show enough”

“We shoot everything practically on Mr. Robot, meaning we don't shoot green screens, we don't burn anything in in post.”

“In season two, I think it was the first scene in episode two of four. So that would be 2.3. And it's the one I referenced earlier of him talking with the voiceover about his first hack and he has four terminal screen windows open up. He has exploit code in one…”

“The only thing that you would ever want to Use flash for is working on a television show like Mr. Robot”

“Years later in the writer's room for Mr. Robot, and you'll see this in season two, I think it's the fourth episode, fourth or fifth episode, in the beginning where there's this VO of Elliot talking about his first major hack. And he's like, I broke into my lib…”

“We sort of fudge it because Okay, maybe it was not disclosed at that time, but, you know, hackers were still aware of it, or the community, like certain members of the community were aware of it, and we can just say that Elliott and F Society, you know, were a…”

“And Sam didn't know that I had a previous life as like a cyber security, you know, cyber security guy. And basically what Elliot did on the show was my old job.”

“The way we achieve that is through flash animation. So I'll work closely with an animator to create an interactive demo, basically, where everything looks legit, like, looks like a real desktop environment, looks like a real terminal window, but it's not. It's…”

“If you were to just screenshot a bit of our code or a bit of source code that's on one of the screens and research it, you'll Be able to find it on GitHub. You'll be able to find it somewhere in its entirety.”

“And it was just the sequence where we flashed like a frame of a piece, like a bunch of different screens, like crash screens of like a Linux system crashing. And if you found the right character on each of those screens in order, it would lead you to another U…”