That's funny because when I was making a fake game cheat which actually deletes whole PC in the background, first thing I did to counter the user was disabling task manager and "alt" button :D Then to surprise a guy who still manages to somehow close the program, I made it reopen itself many copies per second so it keeps deleting without caring if you alt4 or anything. Only way to stop it is restarting in safe mode but by that time most of the files are gone. Many stinky cheaters were not happy :D
For those not getting "it's not about the money", the point of this is to make a statement, show E corp and the world that they did all this, hacked their super secure system, brought a major financial intitution to its knees, and it wasn't not for profit, but just to show that they can and that a giant like E-corp would be the one who flinched. It's about power and up to this moment conventional wisdom dictated that money was power. You can see it in his face as the money burns, that he can't fathom why anyone would want to do this, to just throw money away all for a stunt. When money means everything to you and you suddenly find yourself facing an adversary to whom it means nothing, that's frightening.
This is the exact dame mindset when the joker burned the pile of money in the Dark Knight: "I'm only burning my half...(not so much of a correlation) All you care about is money, this town deserves better, and I'm going to give that to them... Its not about money, its about, SENDing a message." The rest is basically 1 for 1 with the show
Never focus on the tech, focus on it's effects and you get a good story. Star Trek had horrible "science" but it was never the point, it was the exploring.
@@orange_sauce5951 remimds me of facebook a good idea at first until it made people internet stalkers who pretended they had perfect lives. Also helped divide america by premoting conspracies. Good thought experiement bad outcome. Though i feel its more of something that should be lightly used for older people to communicate with friends.
This is why any large organization will have seriously powerful ransomware protections. Network isolation, computer locks, offsite backups, automatic intrusion detections, and at the ready disaster support agents.
Most do, but not all of them. They "key" is to find the one that lacks in terms of disaster recovery planning (usually because of budget reasons and boomer management not understanding the risks) and target it. This way you can very easily take down the rest of the companies that are dependent on this one. I've seen many examples of such companies in my life. It was scary to realize, how fragile some of the systems are.
@@blancheedwas not at the time this episode was made. Back then ransomware wasn't super trendy. It took a year for it to become a seriously big business where specific companies are targeted and now organizations that aren't secure get robbed fast. And despite all this many companies still refuse to spend money on IT. All the stuff the OP is mentioning costs money and managers are often too short sighted to understand that they're cheap relative to the ransom.
imagine the optics for the bank in this scenario, shit's crashing, nobody has any money. Meanwhile the bank's bigwig is literally burning more money than most people will ever see in thier life.
Happened to Ulster Bank in Ireland. Owned at the time by Royal Bank of Scotland. It was a shitshow. In the years after everything seemed to go back to normal. They had a poor mortgage book and they're currently pulling out of Ireland
Such a great show. My friend had told me about this great show that's all about hacking and I put off watching it for so long because I thought it was just going to be one of those hokey CSI type shows where everything in the GUI beeps and boops and people are capable of breaching an enterprise firewall in 15 seconds after furiously typing on their keyboard. I finally gave the show a chance and the first time I saw him open up a Linux shell my eyes lit up.
@@leperfectionist9274 That is a strangely good way of putting it! But as response to FBI, yes, you can copy and paste those commands into a terminal. Doesn't mean you are suddenly a hacker. Obviously the tools they use here are ones that real banks and companies have ways around. The IT world is UNIMAGINABLY complex, and is effectively a game of mouse vs mousetrap. Every exploit you see will either very shortly be patched out after it's found, or has already been patched ages ago. Trust me, if it were that easy to break into a multibillion dollar company's system, there would be "how to" guides all over the internet, and the economy would completely fall apart. Not that it's completely impossible mind you
From the minute Phil Colins starts to play in the background, the cinematography perfectly matches the building tension in the song. This is such an underrated scene.
Anyone else would have had the bike messenger arriving 10 seconds after the CTO arrives, to drive the show forward. But Esmail just waits... lets tension build.. the suspicion and uncertainty and feeling of the CTO being totally out of his comfort zone and element. And spends minutes on this! Glorious!
@@rubn5354 breaking bad is really good, overall i'd say its a better show alongside better call saul, but Mr robot's peaks are beyond any show i've seen. The raid episode from season 3, the vera episode from season 4, also the series finale, are peak tv, ozymandias level of good, if not better (in my opinion ofc)
@@b_delta9725 i completely agree with this. Some of the best episodes in this show are just so unique and incredible, they just offer an amazing viewing experience. Such as the silent episode and the “one take” and the Vera episode..
The IT guy actually doing Alt+F4 and CTRL+Shift+Esc and at 1:27 or so to try opening task manager was super hilarious to me for some reason. What a good detail, that guy knows his shortcuts lol
My favorite part of this show is that all of the hacking, social engineering, tools, and tricks that are used are real. It's not Hollywood smoke and mirrors (although things were sped up in the essence of saving time). From the Bluetooth police hack to the rubber ducky USB keystroke injection, these are all real methods used, it's really neat.
@@benreid4901 Security professionals lowkey love that CD's are outdated, because they were the easiest way to target malware in attacks. Just make a fake CD decal of something popular, but have the real content be an autoloading virus that gives you access. Drop said fake CD in the parking lot of whatever target you wanted to pick, and it was almost a guarantee that some employee would pick it up, and then go put it in the office computer because they thought it was going to be music.
There's a few where the time frames are sped up 1000%, where a few minutes would most likely be a few days. However, yes, all the methods are accurate. Is one of the best shows ever made. I find pentesting a hobby, but have made malware analysis the niche.
I love how everybody just stands and watches. At LEAST one person would think "if I just grab like one of those...that's life changing..." and just grab a handful and run off. Which would most likely cause other people to do it.
@@communistpropagandist4608 that's for sure, but a lot of people don't think that way. Take criminals for example, they literally do crimes and get their money that way. You can't tell me there wasn't one criminal standing there watching this lol
This show was dropping big facts and lessons before the world was ready to hear it. Not alot of of power in your hands when your money is just numbers on a screen.
Might this be the same civilized jester who performed a similar ritual for a private party of well financed venture capitalists and, as he had the guest of honor gently escorted from the stage to feed his hungry support dogs, reassured him that he was only burning his own fee, because his favorite materials were the most popular forms of refined fossil fuels and nitroglycerin-based explosive devices that any like-minded enthusiast could enjoy on a modest budget in today's golden age of consumerism? His philosophies always put a smile on my face.
in case none of you know if you ever have a bunch of money burned in say a house fire etc, the FED (federal reserve board) will replace all the bills. it takes 6-12 months, but regardless of how much you have as long as it is verifiable income, its pretty cool how it all works actually! So realistically this would do absolutely nothing and they'd get the money back lol
@@jwlsiee Well they also have the mask with the insteuctions as Proof that He was forced to do that. I say with good lawyers you can make a reasonable Case that this should qualify. Also as mentioned earlier 7 Million is pocket Change For a bank so Nobody Cares. Also also destroying willingly Money is illegal. So that would also Play a interesting Part in the case
@@wolfVFV destroying money is not usually illegal. fraudulently defacing money is. the way that the bank handled the situation was very ill advised and could complicate their defense, but they also do have strong case. either way, complicated.
The point of the robbery is to make a public statement, a chief of staff for a massive bank burning a pile of money in the middle of New York sends a larger message than taking money from a bank that will just get bailed out by the federal government
The average american earns ~52,000 a year and on average works 47 years from 18 to 65. This theoretical average person earns 2,440,052 total in their entire life, they essentially burned just under 3 peoples lifes earnings. Kinda crazy how money loses all meaning when your as rich as a bank.
@@xenn4985 Banks do more than hold money. They're insidious usurers and should never be dealt with lightly. Never trust a financial institution or a financier.
It wasn't about the money. Fsociety was hitting them where it hurt the most - their public image. The execs weren't joking about how trivial $5.9 million was to them, but for the public to watch one of them burning it when they're already feeling the brunt of the financial chaos would have shown exactly how callous the 1% are.
This is the same toxic mindset that caused great shows in the past to continue way past the point it was actually good. Instead of bringing back old shows that have ended on good notes, we should be pushing for better shows to be made.
Going back for a rewatch on these recently, I'd forgotten how deliberately unsettling the framing / compositions are in this show, plus how it permanently altered the associated memories of so many songs. Love their bold choices.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t the bank report the 5.9 mil as being destroyed and got the federal reserve to print more? Wouldn’t change things that much. Sending a message i get, but it’s like putting a dent in a tank
This is not how the Fed works. Notes are printed when treasury sells T-bills to the Fed. Without a repurchase agreement no extra fiat will be printed. In this scenario, the bank's insurance will cover the loss, but their payments will increase just as your insurance would charge you more after an accident (even if it's not your fault).
It shows that fsociety is not doing this for the money....which makes the rich scared as, in their minds, everyone has a price. If they are not motivated by money, they can not buy themselves out of the problem.
They kinda mention it they would not want this to happen again if the attackers think they can get away with it again they might do another attack but if they don't give in they didn't get anything out of it.
It does not matter. They said it themselves, 5.9 million is nothing to them, they "can find it between their couch cushions" just like you might find a dollar there. It is not about the money.
7:21 Look at this attention to detail here. The guy after watching lots of movies, knows about the deathtraps when you open a bag. So he points the bag's opening away, in case there's really a deathtrap involving something bursting on him.
2:15 Most "we need some exposition here, regardless of logic" question possible... Especially when the answer is as simple as "5.9 million dollars"... and then he laughs as if he hears it for the first time...
I mean that is actually pretty normal. If someone is told something as ridiculous like paying what is essentially pocket change, then they would find a hard time believing it.
@@ItsCrayon Should have said "that's it?" if that was what he meant with the laugh... Now that I think about it if he actually said "that's it?" it would picture them as heartless rich people even more...
I interpret it as a scoff, possibly with disgust, disbelief, or dismissiveness. It's a passing display of emotion. People usually don't literally narrate their emotions and reactions.
I binge watched Mr. Robot in my workshop which is a pretty cool, comfortable and ambient workshop. I can really immerse myself in work or film. When I got to this scene I was deeply imerged in the story and the money burning with Phil Collins was extremely intense for me. Every hair on my body was standing up. A really amazing series.
yup and the money would be fine too, just kick the pile so the bills underthe burning ones are exposed and grab it. the fire might not reacht the lower bills even after like 15 minutes or more, i had to distroy some documents once and i thought hey lets burn it. so i made balls and threw them on a fire but that took a while so i thought hey lets just throw a whole stack of paper on the fire and as you might have guessed, only the outer ends where burned because the fire cant reach the middle so it was perfectly fine.
There are some really poetic details in every aspect of this show. 5/9 - 5.9 Million Dollars - 59 seconds in a minute/ minutes in an hour... (Whiterose's Time Paranoia) The layers on this show are folded deep.
So if this were to actually happen to a person, what could we actually do in that case?, meaning if they only asked for money then should the person who gets hacked pay the money or is that a cash grab with no solution? statistically speaking is it even worth paying any amount to a person/entity who hacked you?
If the group doing the ransomware is expected to make any money they have to show good faith by actually giving the user their files back. If they never gave their part, nobody would ever pay. In situations like this that have actually happened, the victim have paid if they're important enough. There was a hospital a couple years ago that made headlines because they got hit with ransomware and had to pay to keep the place running
@@TKTyrant oh cool thanks for info! also if we didn't care about the data inside the computer, its safe to assume that a factory reset on any computer in case of similar virus would wipe it out without it coming back up on a fresh install?
@@colinrox30 If it's just a single computer (e.g. if someone encrypted the files on your personal laptop) then yes, you could just format (or replace) your hard drive and reinstall everything. In fact, one of the reasons everyone recommends backing up your data is so you could do exactly that. However, if it's a whole organisation getting hacked (e.g. a bank) then you're dealing with a whole network so you have hundreds if not thousands of computers all of which could be storing the malware and if you reset one of them, it's just gonna get infected as soon as you connect it back to the network. If you wanna reset your way out of that, you'd have to shut down your entire network, isolate and reset every single device that has any chance of being infected, appologise to your customers because all your services are down, fix whatever security flaw caused this mess to begin with, apologise to your customers again because you likely lost all records of recent transactions, reinstall everything, pray that your backups don't contain any malware, recover the data from said backups, get your online services up and running again and apologise to your customers for a third time because, whatever sensitive data was encrypted, the hackers have likely saved a copy of it so they can sell it or use it to commit further crimes against your customers. At that point, it's cheaper to just pay the ransom.
What are those people in the crowd doing just standing there staring...? I would've would've been running up & grabbing handfuls of those bundles of 100s, as soon as I saw him light the match! There's plenty of time to snatch at-least 40, 50k before that fire spreads!
You would then be arrested and considered an accomplice. That money is like stealing from a Drug Cartel. Your life will be over if you did. All that money people stole from a brinks truck when a back door flew open....those people had charges against them.
good cause the bank lost NOTHING in doing this he destroyed the money but the goverment destroys money out of circulation every day theyd just call up the fedral inform them what went down tell them the serial number ranges that just got destroyed and theyd reprint that range and re-issue it to the bank
On one hand I’m torn between “the second that hit the floor, it would be stolen” and “todays society is so dumb they’d be more interested in recording the burning of $5.9m for likes than picking a good chunk of it up before it burned”.
instead of being ordered to burn the money, why just let him leave it on the ground and let the people hoard it in seconds. it would be have been their luckiest night.
@@icadm To be honest, the FBI already probably recognized it as a risk or thing they're willing to take. Either lose that amount or an entire big bank gets bricked and maybe lose even more money Imagine the chaos and riots the people will do. Dat crayzeh
Just loving how the IT guy only tries to open task manager and also press alt + f4 then gives up hahahaha
Cus he is part of the hakers
and alt + tab LOL
I feel for him. Obviously the IT guy isn't going to save you from Ransomware so he just has to pretend to try something.
That's funny because when I was making a fake game cheat which actually deletes whole PC in the background, first thing I did to counter the user was disabling task manager and "alt" button :D Then to surprise a guy who still manages to somehow close the program, I made it reopen itself many copies per second so it keeps deleting without caring if you alt4 or anything. Only way to stop it is restarting in safe mode but by that time most of the files are gone. Many stinky cheaters were not happy :D
@@gdgd5194 admitted to a crime lol
The IT guy is a legend. Trying to close it like its an app XD
He is one of the hackers who infiltrated the bank.
@@catace123 that makes so much more sense thanks
Just watch the series, it‘s worth it
If he was really the IT Guy; he would have hit Alt+F4. Lol.
@@kenudice9841 did you not see him hit alt f4? lol
For those not getting "it's not about the money", the point of this is to make a statement, show E corp and the world that they did all this, hacked their super secure system, brought a major financial intitution to its knees, and it wasn't not for profit, but just to show that they can and that a giant like E-corp would be the one who flinched. It's about power and up to this moment conventional wisdom dictated that money was power. You can see it in his face as the money burns, that he can't fathom why anyone would want to do this, to just throw money away all for a stunt. When money means everything to you and you suddenly find yourself facing an adversary to whom it means nothing, that's frightening.
indeed. When the Source of true power is realized..... watch out.
This is the exact dame mindset when the joker burned the pile of money in the Dark Knight:
"I'm only burning my half...(not so much of a correlation) All you care about is money, this town deserves better, and I'm going to give that to them... Its not about money, its about, SENDing a message." The rest is basically 1 for 1 with the show
See, I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite, and gunpowder, and gasoline. And you know the thing that they have in common? They're cheap.
E corps logo is surprisingly similar to Enrons
Im pretty sure it was their way of saying they will never decrypt the files. The hack was to erase all debt, not for personal profit.
This show is so ahead of its time it's insane! Even nowadays Hollywood movies fail to portrait what cyber warfare and hacking looks like
Tbf hollywood writers arent that smart they just brainstorm a series of moments in meetings then weave the plot through that.
This wasn’t super accurate but it was pretty funny
This is so privileged man just burnt the money
Never focus on the tech, focus on it's effects and you get a good story. Star Trek had horrible "science" but it was never the point, it was the exploring.
@@orange_sauce5951 remimds me of facebook a good idea at first until it made people internet stalkers who pretended they had perfect lives. Also helped divide america by premoting conspracies. Good thought experiement bad outcome. Though i feel its more of something that should be lightly used for older people to communicate with friends.
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world"
What does this mean?
@@dontmd4158 watch Jake Trans latest video , it's a video on HSBC Bank
@@SmethwickCouncilmanBint thanks mate, makes soo much more sense now
@@dontmd4158 it's a dialogue in mr robot.
@@dontmd4158 Fractional reserve lending
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What a coincidence lol
GEICO....
Lmao in real New York the second he poured the money out people woulda been tryna to steal it🤣
They'd probably take a minute to process what's happening, and once he starts pouring the lighter fluid, that's a big red flag to keep your distance.
@@amokriinprolgiid3409 Lmao maybe i dont think he'd even have a chance to get the fluid out soon as they see a few stacks its gonna be a mob
Well, that's the reason why they gave him only 10 seconds to do all that
Everything about this scene is extremely stupid
It run in for a stack the second he started pouring lighter fluid
1:29 the "decrypt first file for free" is savage 😂
Thank you
"Support" also 😂
Why is it savage
Well, you have to convince the hacked person that you can actually decrypt everything, so it's not a joke or anything like that.
It's real not a joke actually
This is why any large organization will have seriously powerful ransomware protections. Network isolation, computer locks, offsite backups, automatic intrusion detections, and at the ready disaster support agents.
Most organizations do have that.
Most do, but not all of them. They "key" is to find the one that lacks in terms of disaster recovery planning (usually because of budget reasons and boomer management not understanding the risks) and target it. This way you can very easily take down the rest of the companies that are dependent on this one.
I've seen many examples of such companies in my life. It was scary to realize, how fragile some of the systems are.
@@blancheedwas not at the time this episode was made. Back then ransomware wasn't super trendy. It took a year for it to become a seriously big business where specific companies are targeted and now organizations that aren't secure get robbed fast. And despite all this many companies still refuse to spend money on IT. All the stuff the OP is mentioning costs money and managers are often too short sighted to understand that they're cheap relative to the ransom.
@@TheIrisCZ Agree. The big ones are secure, but the medium and small ones are ALL sitting ducks.
@@jjmarr7130 yep !
Guys, the "IT guy" is Mobley. He's in F Society. He's the one who installed the ransomware.
Cool! No wonder he does nothing.
Who is Mobley
@@b2kzangelalwayz Mobley is the guy who installed the ransomware. He is also in F Society
Thank you for clarifying.
@@pioshock8257 🤣🤣
imagine the optics for the bank in this scenario, shit's crashing, nobody has any money. Meanwhile the bank's bigwig is literally burning more money than most people will ever see in thier life.
Happened to Ulster Bank in Ireland. Owned at the time by Royal Bank of Scotland. It was a shitshow. In the years after everything seemed to go back to normal. They had a poor mortgage book and they're currently pulling out of Ireland
Scott doesn’t work for the bank. He’s E Corp’s CTO.
@@justincruz5720 Bank of E is a subsidiary of E Corp.
@@BMetts Yes. He still does not work for the bank.
@@justincruz5720 nobody said he did? He works for the company the owns the bank, hence “the bank’s bigwig”
Such a great show. My friend had told me about this great show that's all about hacking and I put off watching it for so long because I thought it was just going to be one of those hokey CSI type shows where everything in the GUI beeps and boops and people are capable of breaching an enterprise firewall in 15 seconds after furiously typing on their keyboard. I finally gave the show a chance and the first time I saw him open up a Linux shell my eyes lit up.
you can see them actually typing real commands to run exploit scripts. it’s so cool.
Hackerloi moment
@@zashbot so you’re saying anybody could’ve just copied the commands to infiltrate any bank they want
@@fbi538 you can copy a recipe straight out of a cookbook, but you still gotta know how to cook
@@leperfectionist9274 That is a strangely good way of putting it!
But as response to FBI, yes, you can copy and paste those commands into a terminal. Doesn't mean you are suddenly a hacker. Obviously the tools they use here are ones that real banks and companies have ways around. The IT world is UNIMAGINABLY complex, and is effectively a game of mouse vs mousetrap. Every exploit you see will either very shortly be patched out after it's found, or has already been patched ages ago. Trust me, if it were that easy to break into a multibillion dollar company's system, there would be "how to" guides all over the internet, and the economy would completely fall apart. Not that it's completely impossible mind you
From the minute Phil Colins starts to play in the background, the cinematography perfectly matches the building tension in the song. This is such an underrated scene.
A bit of song editing going on tho. But did it HAVE to be Phil??
I noticed it too. The camera angles are great in this scene
I'm diving at that money
Check out the last episode of Snowfall when they start to play In the Air Tonight
Anyone else would have had the bike messenger arriving 10 seconds after the CTO arrives, to drive the show forward. But Esmail just waits... lets tension build.. the suspicion and uncertainty and feeling of the CTO being totally out of his comfort zone and element. And spends minutes on this! Glorious!
man, mr. robot will forever be one of the best shows I've ever watched.
truth
may i introduce you to breaking bad?
@@rubn5354 breaking bad is really good, overall i'd say its a better show alongside better call saul, but Mr robot's peaks are beyond any show i've seen. The raid episode from season 3, the vera episode from season 4, also the series finale, are peak tv, ozymandias level of good, if not better (in my opinion ofc)
@@b_delta9725 i completely agree with this. Some of the best episodes in this show are just so unique and incredible, they just offer an amazing viewing experience. Such as the silent episode and the “one take” and the Vera episode..
@@b_delta9725 W TAKE
The IT guy actually doing Alt+F4 and CTRL+Shift+Esc and at 1:27 or so to try opening task manager was super hilarious to me for some reason. What a good detail, that guy knows his shortcuts lol
The IT Guy is actually one of the people involved in the hack, so he's just infiltrated the bank to role play as a useless technician lol
@@superwhizz114 That one little thing didn't make sense. A corporation of this size would have a massive IT security department, not one dude :D
My favorite part of this show is that all of the hacking, social engineering, tools, and tricks that are used are real. It's not Hollywood smoke and mirrors (although things were sped up in the essence of saving time).
From the Bluetooth police hack to the rubber ducky USB keystroke injection, these are all real methods used, it's really neat.
USB drops are one of the most interesting social engineering methods imo. People can’t help but let their curiosity get the better of them.
my favorite was the windows 7 login bypass via renaming narrator during system repair
@@benreid4901 Security professionals lowkey love that CD's are outdated, because they were the easiest way to target malware in attacks. Just make a fake CD decal of something popular, but have the real content be an autoloading virus that gives you access. Drop said fake CD in the parking lot of whatever target you wanted to pick, and it was almost a guarantee that some employee would pick it up, and then go put it in the office computer because they thought it was going to be music.
There's a few where the time frames are sped up 1000%, where a few minutes would most likely be a few days. However, yes, all the methods are accurate. Is one of the best shows ever made. I find pentesting a hobby, but have made malware analysis the niche.
Or that one lady who dropped a hot key when she locked her screen when Elliot tried to sneak onto a computer.
I love how everybody just stands and watches. At LEAST one person would think "if I just grab like one of those...that's life changing..." and just grab a handful and run off. Which would most likely cause other people to do it.
A felony conviction sure is life changing.
@@communistpropagandist4608 that's for sure, but a lot of people don't think that way. Take criminals for example, they literally do crimes and get their money that way. You can't tell me there wasn't one criminal standing there watching this lol
or heck an armful
Have you ever read about Dye packs, son?
Chances are they believe it’s a street performance art and fake money
One of the greatest TV shows ever made... So hard to let to go :(
Μα δεν είναι;; 👌🏻
FACTS
True
"This only works if you let go too"
I hope they release another season
This show was dropping big facts and lessons before the world was ready to hear it. Not alot of of power in your hands when your money is just numbers on a screen.
Exactly. Just look at China now with their housing debts
That's Numberwang!
Crypto: save my beer
And we got crypto now where the value relies on influencer screaming at your face 😂
yeaaaah tell that to the central bankers
Iconic moment of the show and playing Take me Home by Phil Collins!
Facts.. the sounds for this series was just as fantastic as the plot and the delivery. I miss this show so much.😐
Phil Collins is legendary classic
The lyrics are foreshadowing
I see you are also a man of culture. Phil Collins' best supporting artists are his left and right hands, all hail the GOAT.
This episode introduced me to Take Me Home and was such a legendary moment to experience live.
As one wise clown once said, its not about the money, its about sending a message.
Might this be the same civilized jester who performed a similar ritual for a private party of well financed venture capitalists and, as he had the guest of honor gently escorted from the stage to feed his hungry support dogs, reassured him that he was only burning his own fee, because his favorite materials were the most popular forms of refined fossil fuels and nitroglycerin-based explosive devices that any like-minded enthusiast could enjoy on a modest budget in today's golden age of consumerism?
His philosophies always put a smile on my face.
This is my favorite show ever, and I’m not even that fluent on programming. The whole show feels like a dream
I thought that same thing when Scott was introduced again and he comes into focus with that music. I love the visuals and mood of the whole show.
in case none of you know if you ever have a bunch of money burned in say a house fire etc, the FED (federal reserve board) will replace all the bills. it takes 6-12 months, but regardless of how much you have as long as it is verifiable income, its pretty cool how it all works actually! So realistically this would do absolutely nothing and they'd get the money back lol
well i mean they have proof that he intentionally set fire to the money so it might be slightly more complicated than that tbh
The point is the message no? They even said themselves in this clip that a few million is pocket change
@@jwlsiee Well they also have the mask with the insteuctions as Proof that He was forced to do that.
I say with good lawyers you can make a reasonable Case that this should qualify.
Also as mentioned earlier 7 Million is pocket Change For a bank so Nobody Cares.
Also also destroying willingly Money is illegal. So that would also Play a interesting Part in the case
@@wolfVFV destroying money is not usually illegal. fraudulently defacing money is. the way that the bank handled the situation was very ill advised and could complicate their defense, but they also do have strong case. either way, complicated.
The point of the robbery is to make a public statement, a chief of staff for a massive bank burning a pile of money in the middle of New York sends a larger message than taking money from a bank that will just get bailed out by the federal government
The audio in this show is superb and delivers quite the experience!
This show is like "The West Wing" to me in that, when I watch any scene, I immediately want to binge watch it all again.
They never once considered that the hacker responsible might be using the laptops camera and mic to monitor their discussion
... at the very least, the camera was safely duct-taped)
ahhh this is gonna be a part of my childhood I will remember :) thank you elliot and Mr robot
dude, you was too young to watch this tv show hahaha
@@virgiliostefanin8263 lol but it's so addictingggggg I love the show very much
@@virgiliostefanin8263 why does it matter? what is the point of an age rating?
Yep 100%
@@c0rpster462 because younger people are more easily influenced
I love how he ask what are the demands even though he knows and it’s sitting right there on the computer
Plus it's not that hard to remember.
The average american earns ~52,000 a year and on average works 47 years from 18 to 65. This theoretical average person earns 2,440,052 total in their entire life, they essentially burned just under 3 peoples lifes earnings. Kinda crazy how money loses all meaning when your as rich as a bank.
Woah, a place that holds money has a lot of money? Thats wiiiiild man
@@xenn4985 Banks do more than hold money. They're insidious usurers and should never be dealt with lightly. Never trust a financial institution or a financier.
@@xenn4985 They dont hold your money... They take your money and invest it to make more money...
They should have clicked on the "Support" or "FAQ" button on the hijacked screen, maybe there is somebody who can help
LOL
1:24 Nice try bruh Ctrl+Shift+Esc, Alt+F4😂
We hackers do that all the time when we want to play dump😎
@@GlatzeMetzger I usually go to the toilet for that
@@renatokobashigawa7025 lmao
Gotta try the obvious ones first, feel like some might overthink a whole lot, forget some of the simple workarounds
that's mobley he's just pretending
If such a huge org burns such a huge lump of money, they could just ask the mint to print it back since it was not exchanged and just destroyed
Maybe they asked for non consecutive bills 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Its not about the money its about sending a message- joker
It wasn't about the money. Fsociety was hitting them where it hurt the most - their public image. The execs weren't joking about how trivial $5.9 million was to them, but for the public to watch one of them burning it when they're already feeling the brunt of the financial chaos would have shown exactly how callous the 1% are.
@@griffalo1013 If they were just negotiating for the money, I doubt they would demand to do it in a public park.
If only this show would come back, it was without a doubt one of the best shows ever.
Part of me wishes it would, but also it ended so fantastically that I wouldn't want to ruin it.
It was actually going downhill in the last few seasons. They were struggling to wrap up all the plots. But it did end well.
@@Jimmy_JonesWhy would you say it was going downhill?
This is the same toxic mindset that caused great shows in the past to continue way past the point it was actually good. Instead of bringing back old shows that have ended on good notes, we should be pushing for better shows to be made.
One of the absolute greatest scenes in any TV show ever.
you’ve never seen any tv
@@mattmcr of course alexander would say this
@@lilyliao9521 facts dude
Going back for a rewatch on these recently, I'd forgotten how deliberately unsettling the framing / compositions are in this show, plus how it permanently altered the associated memories of so many songs. Love their bold choices.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t the bank report the 5.9 mil as being destroyed and got the federal reserve to print more? Wouldn’t change things that much. Sending a message i get, but it’s like putting a dent in a tank
They would most likely have insurance that covers things like this so, in reality, it's not a money problem just an inconvenience.
This is not how the Fed works. Notes are printed when treasury sells T-bills to the Fed. Without a repurchase agreement no extra fiat will be printed. In this scenario, the bank's insurance will cover the loss, but their payments will increase just as your insurance would charge you more after an accident (even if it's not your fault).
It shows that fsociety is not doing this for the money....which makes the rich scared as, in their minds, everyone has a price. If they are not motivated by money, they can not buy themselves out of the problem.
They kinda mention it they would not want this to happen again if the attackers think they can get away with it again they might do another attack but if they don't give in they didn't get anything out of it.
It does not matter. They said it themselves, 5.9 million is nothing to them, they "can find it between their couch cushions" just like you might find a dollar there. It is not about the money.
7:21 Look at this attention to detail here. The guy after watching lots of movies, knows about the deathtraps when you open a bag. So he points the bag's opening away, in case there's really a deathtrap involving something bursting on him.
That is a very effective way of combating high inflation.
2:15 Most "we need some exposition here, regardless of logic" question possible...
Especially when the answer is as simple as "5.9 million dollars"... and then he laughs as if he hears it for the first time...
I mean that is actually pretty normal. If someone is told something as ridiculous like paying what is essentially pocket change, then they would find a hard time believing it.
@@ItsCrayon Should have said "that's it?" if that was what he meant with the laugh...
Now that I think about it if he actually said "that's it?" it would picture them as heartless rich people even more...
@@Sifd Can you really not read between the lines and infer that? The show doesn’t need to spell everything out for you.
but sifd
I interpret it as a scoff, possibly with disgust, disbelief, or dismissiveness. It's a passing display of emotion. People usually don't literally narrate their emotions and reactions.
This sequence builds tension like a true master piece
This is why you have a standby site that’s backed up at regular intervals but is not accessible by normal network traffic.
I binge watched Mr. Robot in my workshop which is a pretty cool, comfortable and ambient workshop. I can really immerse myself in work or film. When I got to this scene I was deeply imerged in the story and the money burning with Phil Collins was extremely intense for me. Every hair on my body was standing up. A really amazing series.
Where can you watch it? I never got to finish the show, and would love to revisit it.
@@mariannecontrino6297 It is now on netflix
@@mariannecontrino6297 In his workshop. It's pretty cool, comfortable, and ambient.
@@BaconManProd But does it have cookies and milk?
@@BaconManProd I hear you can really immerse yourself in it too
This show is just beautiful
30 people standing around watching a man set 5mil in cash on fire? In real life they all run over and start grabbing that lol.
LOL right... just as soon as he tossed that match and half of it was on fire I'd be running up trying to grab a few of those stacks!
yup and the money would be fine too, just kick the pile so the bills underthe burning ones are exposed and grab it.
the fire might not reacht the lower bills even after like 15 minutes or more, i had to distroy some documents once and i thought hey lets burn it.
so i made balls and threw them on a fire but that took a while so i thought hey lets just throw a whole stack of paper on the fire and as you might have guessed, only the outer ends where burned because the fire cant reach the middle so it was perfectly fine.
One of the best and my favorite series in the world. ♥️ Thanks, Mr. Robot.
2:16 “What are the demands again?” Like he hasnt been thinking all night long about the virus that will destroy the company
4:55 is one of the greatest scenes in TV history in my opinion.
Haha, I'm sure that he thought "how stupid those hackers must be!", smiled and burned all the money - it cost nothing to print it back.
It’s know this is just a joke lol but it’s about sending a message about the heads of E-corp, not the money
There are some really poetic details in every aspect of this show. 5/9 - 5.9 Million Dollars - 59 seconds in a minute/ minutes in an hour... (Whiterose's Time Paranoia) The layers on this show are folded deep.
Best time to rob a bank is when another bank near by is being robbed.
Thats antisemitic
@@hamdankhan319 how
@@Idkoogabooga4 it just is (sarcasm)
I probably would've taken a bundle when I saw he was putting lighter fluid on it
Guaranteed that at least one person would try to grab a bundle before the fire completely spread
You probably wouldve been promptly taken by the feds after lmao
@@gibn1542 you right but i wouldn't have known that
@@MyHardyhar good youre honest, same for most people
@@gibn1542 burning money is illegal, so I’m assuming it’s fair game at that point.
9:20 performance art " make the money just to burn it"
1:29 LMAO "Support", "FAQ" and "Decrypt first file for free"
01:36
"There's an unequal amount of good and bad in most things. The trick is to figure out the ratio and act accordingly"
This scene with hacked screen and this music seems like horror. Amazing Sam Esmail
These clips make me nostalgic for the days before I finished watching Mr robot.
This shows music choices we’re on point
"It's not about the money,
It's about sending a message"
-The Greatest Joker of All Time
"I'm the Joker baby!"
-The ACTUAL Greatest Joker of All Time
Funny thing (no pun intended) about Joker is that he doesn't even rob banks for the money, just to get Batman's attention.
Oh boy I guess the "E" Meme is going to feel very different in this universe
that E bank logo looking eerily close to Bank of America’s…
Yeah
Might be the point.
That was EXACTLY the point, subtle "artistic nod" if you will
Enron
Weird, I see Citadel.
I came to this video thinking I would learn how to rob a bank, I came away w/ a really memorable quote 'You deserve what ya getting!' (0:40).
I worked for a very large bank and it was down for one day...people thought the world was ending...mass chaos
0:15 the way she put on her glasses is so realistic
The world through the lens of insanity only shows us how eerily similar that world is to the real one.
I finally got around to finishing season 2 and gosh its crazy to see some of these characters again knowing what i know now.
I love how much calm they are
Such agree
most true
Love the burning scene. Best music choice.
So if this were to actually happen to a person, what could we actually do in that case?, meaning if they only asked for money then should the person who gets hacked pay the money or is that a cash grab with no solution? statistically speaking is it even worth paying any amount to a person/entity who hacked you?
If the group doing the ransomware is expected to make any money they have to show good faith by actually giving the user their files back. If they never gave their part, nobody would ever pay. In situations like this that have actually happened, the victim have paid if they're important enough. There was a hospital a couple years ago that made headlines because they got hit with ransomware and had to pay to keep the place running
@@TKTyrant oh cool thanks for info! also if we didn't care about the data inside the computer, its safe to assume that a factory reset on any computer in case of similar virus would wipe it out without it coming back up on a fresh install?
@@colinrox30 If it's just a single computer (e.g. if someone encrypted the files on your personal laptop) then yes, you could just format (or replace) your hard drive and reinstall everything. In fact, one of the reasons everyone recommends backing up your data is so you could do exactly that.
However, if it's a whole organisation getting hacked (e.g. a bank) then you're dealing with a whole network so you have hundreds if not thousands of computers all of which could be storing the malware and if you reset one of them, it's just gonna get infected as soon as you connect it back to the network. If you wanna reset your way out of that, you'd have to shut down your entire network, isolate and reset every single device that has any chance of being infected, appologise to your customers because all your services are down, fix whatever security flaw caused this mess to begin with, apologise to your customers again because you likely lost all records of recent transactions, reinstall everything, pray that your backups don't contain any malware, recover the data from said backups, get your online services up and running again and apologise to your customers for a third time because, whatever sensitive data was encrypted, the hackers have likely saved a copy of it so they can sell it or use it to commit further crimes against your customers.
At that point, it's cheaper to just pay the ransom.
@@wojteksowinski248 cool bro. Thanks for info!
@@wojteksowinski248 In some rare cases the malware stays on the PC even after reformatting (rootkits), but I wouldn’t worry about malware like that.
F****** brilliant wish I'd never seen it before so good to watch again for the first time
Joker said it best. "It's not about the money. It's about sending a message."
I just stumbled upon this clips... I just cant with the cinematography and sound designs. The premise and story are everything though
The cinematography is great tho
The weird cinematography is very intentional, it’s Sam Esmail’s signature style
One of the best shows!
That song...one of my all time fav's. Never seen it used like this, making me love it even more
Dude, i miss this show
10 seconds later a guy running up, saying: "YOU GOT THE MONEY?"
they hired real hackers to write this show.
Uni kids in 2nd year computer science who were tired of Arduino.
@@imho2278 lmao
The wannacry attack that put Ransomware in the public awareness struck one year after this episode aired.
"It's not all about the money. It's about sending a message - Everything burns"
(Edited it since everyone kept screaming about it).
Wrong
@@gavinstraface897 how.
@@nullify1337 it's from the dark knight not Spider-man
Ah yes my favourite Chris Nolan DC movie... Spiderman
By burning the money
That was pretty powerful to watch unfold. It was not about the money, but the message.
What are those people in the crowd doing just standing there staring...? I would've would've been running up & grabbing handfuls of those bundles of 100s, as soon as I saw him light the match! There's plenty of time to snatch at-least 40, 50k before that fire spreads!
Money's probably tagged so when you use it, feds are going to come knocking ASAP.
You would then be arrested and considered an accomplice.
That money is like stealing from a Drug Cartel. Your life will be over if you did.
All that money people stole from a brinks truck when a back door flew open....those people had charges against them.
@@sizedtoaster0278 Thank you.
It's not about money. It's about sending a message.
good cause the bank lost NOTHING in doing this he destroyed the money but the goverment destroys money out of circulation every day theyd just call up the fedral inform them what went down tell them the serial number ranges that just got destroyed and theyd reprint that range and re-issue it to the bank
i got that reference
what message?
@@nakkabadz6443 Watch The Dark Knight and you'll know
@@nakkabadz6443 that everything burns
“It’s not about the money it’s about the message”
What kind of bank is that? they don't keep hard copies of their records?
It’s 2022 I’d say no banks keep hard copies anymore
Hard copies? Sounds expensive and the last thing banks want is to spend less of the money they’re just given.
Here in the Philippines, our banks prints every transactions. So whenever the system fails, they have a hard copy of their records to recover.
they do keep hardcopies, the plot goes that they want to set off some hydrogen explosions at the hardcopy vaults. at the top of my head
@@csverse that seems like a waste of energy
"It's not about the money, it's about sending a message"
"what are their demands again?" *the literal only thing in the message*
i love the last season since i love those christma vibes
I love this show
Just realized how nice that apartment is at 1:51
Seeing that 5.9 million dollars weighs 132 lbs, dude is strong to say the least
The shot of him throwing the match he is in line perfectly with one world trade
On one hand I’m torn between “the second that hit the floor, it would be stolen” and “todays society is so dumb they’d be more interested in recording the burning of $5.9m for likes than picking a good chunk of it up before it burned”.
You got that absolutely right, my friend.
It would be dumb to take the money. That would end you up in jail lol
IT guy is just pressing alt+F4 and Ctrl+Escape 😂😂😂😂
Legend
I love how they putting tellers and bankers as if their the people who do these things they don't, they don't have access to any of this stuff.
Exactly
The use of the music is perfect.
Ehhh, this clip is already posted on this channel? Named "wear the mask, burn the money, stop ransomware".
What is the name of the song which played in background during money burn scene ? 8:55
instead of being ordered to burn the money, why just let him leave it on the ground and let the people hoard it in seconds. it would be have been their luckiest night.
Wow you missed the point.
Taking that would be a federal crime.
In plain view of FBI
@@chrisdin4109 isn't intentionally destroying money a crime to?
@@icadm To be honest, the FBI already probably recognized it as a risk or thing they're willing to take. Either lose that amount or an entire big bank gets bricked and maybe lose even more money
Imagine the chaos and riots the people will do. Dat crayzeh
Money probably was marked so it has no use
IT guy: **Tries Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then shrugs, tries Ctrl+Shift+Esc, tries Alt+F4, then shrugs again.** Welp I've done everything I can.
this is the modern way to rob a bank
Not just banks, any organization or business can be robbed this way
Such a cool scene, I don’t know if it is a spoiler or not but now I really wanna watch