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The Casa de Papel is the inevitable Netflix success of the first quarter of 2018. The series, very popular, does not escape the clichés on the computer.
We thought there would be a before and after Mr. Robot. The series finally managed to overcome the clichés of hackers and computer science in general. Certainly, we always found ourselves in the presence of a man with hoodie mid-genius half-asocial, but this time, what he did on computers was not just tapping on a keyboard to display false lines of code or press a red "Access Denied" button on a black background to become "Access Granted" to penetrate any security system.
It is an understatement that Casa de Papel has not learned the lesson. The Spanish telenovela that takes place in the heart of a robbery manages to be as funny when it shows the computer that it is addictive for anyone who has tasted the first episodes. Despite its charm, there are still so absurd tech references that they do not pass. And it goes from the cute to the grotesque. From raising eyebrows to laughter, Netflix's most-watched non-English-language show has a great arsenal of funny situations.
- Voice modification interface
Its computer interface to manage this software is similar to the video animations that we put on Windows Media Player or Winamp in the 2000s while playing music. And it is also probably a video, since it remains animated permanently as if sound entered, whether the Professor is speaking or not.
- Piracy of cameras in real time
During the first robbery scene, as the truck rushes inside the Madrid Mint building, Rio taps (probably randomly) on his keyboard and detects real-time security cameras on a map, with their position that is also updating. So, of course, we know that institutions can sometimes be sieves, but here we enter into pure cinematography. To hell with it!
- The hack of all smartphones
The Casa de Papel manages to make the means of triangulation of a smartphone rather well. In real life, with a mandate and for an investigation, the police can indeed locate the antennas on which connects a smartphone and operate an extremely precise geolocation of the device. But the series derails completely when it shows smartphones get hacked. We find of course people who type anything on a keyboard and red buttons that turn green, showing big CONNECTED
Sonar-type monitoring of agents
The scene of infiltration of the two agents is followed scrupulously on a screen of control on which one can see their progression, underground, to the meter close. So yes, Uber knows where you are with good precision when you order a race, but try using a GPS in an underground car parkDUPLICATE THE PIXELS!
Rio the hacker installs the computer that will serve as a basis for the Professor (who, we do not know how, is a crack in all but does not have the basics of computing in 2018). The production has chosen to make a hilarious fast-forward scene on aggressive dubstep (hacker music) during which Rio ... goes back and forth and moves screens. Why bother to configure a router, a firewall, a CPU, VPN access and dozens of cables for the break of the century when we can just ask items and adjust the tilt of the screens?
- for some more bitcoins
Casa de Papel was released in late 2017 in Spain. And what was cool and fashionable among hackers in 2017? Bitcoin, of course. Without letting us go back to laughter, Rio goes to the Amazon Dark Net, with ads and buy buttons that allow you to acquire heavy weapons or tanks. The fiery young opted elsewhere for a remarkable output in armored armor, with an unstoppable argument: "and it costs only 60 bitcoins! "