Mr Robot Season 1
Ingelore Clason
In June 2016, USA Network announced Hacking Robot, a live aftershow hosted by Andy Greenwald.[52] The first episode of Hacking Robot debuted after the season two premiere, with guests Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin and Portia Doubleday and received 376,000 viewers.[53] The second installment aired on September 7, 2016, after the tenth episode of the second season,[54] and received 320,000 viewers.[22]
The first episode of Mr. Robot was released across multiple digital platforms in advance of its first broadcast. It had a viewership of 2.7 million prior to the first broadcast of the episode.[57]
After seeing the last Mr. Robot easter egg from season 2 episode 1 I have been on the lookout for IP's and domains to try and go after. At the end of season 2 episode 4 (init_1.asec) Elliot logs into an IRC server and the IP address is clearly visible as 192.251.68.53.
After it logged me in as D0loresH4ze I was dropped in a channel called #th3g3ntl3man with the all too familiar samsepi0l (for the uninformed, Sam Sepiol was the alias Elliot used in season one to gain access to Steel Mountain, a secure datacenter).
What does that even mean? At the end of the episode this line of dialogue was not shown. Only wait for my instructions was. The scene after shows a news article from Business Insider titled FBI gives up Blackberry for Android. I assume that is their "standard issue" and he is going to hack into them via their smartphones. That's a bold move, we'll see how it plays out next week.
After this I investigated a couple of other addresses I found (192.251.68.240, 104.97.14.93, 192.251.68.249, irc.eversible.co) but none of them turned up anything. I looked at the page source too, hoping to find something hidden in the javascript or HTML. Nothing there either... I guess we will just have to wait and see where this goes! I'll probably take a closer look at this after work, but I thought this would be cool to share now.
Bill:It also seems like the regimen that he was going through was suggested by his prison friend (Leon), and that it was voluntary. So part of the strictness of his schedule wasn't just that it was the prison system, but also self-imposed.
Matt: I know first time hacking offense and not being a person of color means a light sentence. Most those suburban high school grade changer hackers get light sentence. But people like "corrupt" (John Threat) they do big bids.
Micah: I think sentencing can differ wildly, and whether or not the prosecutor or judge wants to make an example out of you. In this case, it seems like they weren't trying to make an example out of Elliot.
Bill: Also, if he was in for some part of 18 months (it was an early release, which Elliot speculates might be due to his Dark Army connections), the time since the first season has elapsed would be some matter of months.
Yael: Who was it that called it re: Ray being the prison warden? I got emails and a comment saying we know Ray is an inmate because he was sitting in front of Elliot in a jumpsuit. But they were wrong.
Micah: Well, clearly stage 2 was Mr. Robot's plan, and Elliot doesn't even know about it. And I think Mr. Robot lied when he said that they killed Tyrell. I think he's still alive somewhere.
Yael: So Angela gets to use her rubber ducky to get a password and then use it to log into someone else's box and get documents...Does she have a backup copy of those docs? Because I think she just sort of handed over her drive.
Bill: I don't think this is a universe where the law protects whistleblowers very much. I mean, she went to the very agency that is tasked with protecting public health, and she gets a visit from the FBI for her diligence.
Micah: I think this episode does a good job of showing how risky it is to trust people to grant you anonymity when you're trying to blow the whistle. It's so much safer, in all sorts of situations, to use technology to enforce your anonymity.
Micah: The USB Rubber Ducky scene was excellent. But honestly, I think it was a little foolish of her to login to her own workstation and look at the data, and then copy it to a USB stick. She should have waited until after work and used a personal computer. Evil Corp probably has at least some sort of spyware on their workstations. Oh -- did she not actually get the data on the rubber ducky? She just got credentials she used to access a network share?
Matt: She got the rubber ducky to pull usernames and passwords. The personal computer wouldn't be on the same domain. Identity management, active directory and network shares loose in the office. From a VPN on work machine is the best bet from home. That connection usually has more auditing and security and obviously you.
Yael: So there's a record that the file was copied it external storage from her terminal, while logged into someone else's account...Even if the FBI wasn't onto her, that seems...risky.
Micah: Windows logging is vast, complex, and configurable. But I'm not sure if there are logs each time you copy a file from one disk to another. There's likely a log that she connected to the shared folder using someone else's credentials from her workstation though
Yael: It looks like the Dark Army (and also Evil Corp) wanted her to drop docs for some reason? I was surprised that Dominique just walked into Angela's house later. I thought FBI agents without warrants were like vampires and had to be invited in.
Micah: The Evil Corp CEO was trying to convince his Congress buddies to give them a bailout, but it seems like that effort failed. And without a bailout, maybe they can't afford it anymore, but it's critical infrastructure so that's why the feds are taking it over?
Yael: Yeah, smart. Do you need a Pwn Phone to do that? I mean, I'm sure it'd be easier. It's built on Kali Linux and has a ton of built-in tools (in addition to the scripts you write yourself).
Micah: I don't think you need one, but I think it helps. I don't understand how that attack worked, but one nice thing about the Pwn Phone that you don't often get in a normal laptop to cellular hardware. You can take any laptop and boot to Kali to start hacking Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but it takes some custom stuff if you want to hack GSM, CDMA, etc.
Matt: Cisco's apartment. Darlene is too badass for apartments. I feel the show needs more black hat and cybercrime consultants, but then again those tools are like having a show teach you to build a gun. Pentest heavy for a reason I suppose.
Yael: It's funny to me that he's on Zhun's phone but they still don't know what Stage 2 is. Elliot is totally losing it with the Mr. Robot merger. Even Cisco thinks he's being creepy.
Kevin: I often describe Mr. Robot as the Fight Club of television, and I think that's kept bearing itself out. He's clearly suffering from depersonalization and dissociative identity.
Matt: He never made mistakes like referring to Mr. Robot like that, but I think he now is aware if the situation and dealing with it while sharing the physical form is difficult. Darlene caught the slip. But like earlier in the season when she says, "we need HIM." she is doing what's best for the mission. Not what's best for her brother. I like that they hack differently, Elliot and Mr. Robot.
But instead of sitting through an anxiety-inducing 10 hours re-watching the first season, we have compiled the major plot points and twists that can prepare you for what creator Sam Esmail says is an even darker Season 2.
Along with this focus on tone, creator, director and writer Sam Esmail puts the focus on expansion: expanding on everything brought up from last season. Instead of just following Eliot around for another season which does happen quite a bit, we got a ton of screentime with characters old and new.
And then there is the man himself. Far and away, everything that involves Eliot and his alter-ego Mr. Robot are the best parts of this show. From the hilarious faux-sitcom bit, to the adderall binge, to the absolutely stellar last 10 minutes of the season finale, these two characters work fantastic together and are always involved in the best parts of the show.
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