Fictional Computers
Pioneers in Tech
In-person TTPs
Hacker Devices
Hackers in Film and TV
100
Tony Stark's personal AI
Jarvis
100
The father of theoretical computer science, he dropped the bombe at Bletchley Park to crack the German's Enigma machine. Accept no imitations.
Alan Turing
100
This pastime isn't only done at college football games.
Tailgating
100
Take another glance at the gas pump to make sure a hacker isn't using one of these devices to take a little off the top of your bank account.
Skimmer
100
1995 film starring Angelina Jolie. "My crime is that of curiosity."
Hackers
200
Cyberdyne Systems should've exercised better "judgment" before releasing this AI on the future.
Skynet
200
This Finnish-American created an OS named after himself and then went on to invent Git.
Linus Torvalds
200
Hang ten and shoot the curl, this gnarly sport can also be used to spy on your neighbor's screen.
Shoulder surfing
200
Don't flip out over this Swiss Army knife for hackers.
Flipper Zero
200
Trilogy of Disney films with soundtracks by Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails
Tron
300
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
HAL 9000
300
The first computer programmer, this woman recognized that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine could be used for more than just pure calculation, and wrote a program using conditional statements and loops to compute a series of Bernoulli numbers.
Ada Lovelace
300
A clipboard, a safety vest, and a commanding tone of voice will get you almost anywhere.
Social engineering
300
Quack attack!
Rubber Ducky
300
Trinity
Morpheus
Neo
The Matrix
400
"I'll die the way I lived: annoying!"
CL4P-TP "Claptrap"
400
This United States Navy Rear Admiral wrote FLOW-MATIC, the first English-like data processing language, which laid the groundwork for COBOL.
Grace Hopper
400
One man's trash may be another man's treasure, so be very careful what you throw away.
Dumpster diving
400
This rascally rabbit can simulate multiple devices via USB to pwn a system.
Bash bunny
400
Domo Arigato! Before Rami Malek was Freddie Mercury, he was Elliot Alderson, a hacker battling E Corp.
Mr. Robot
500
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
Lieutenant Commander Data
500
During WWII, this bombshell actress found time to co-invent "Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum" technology to enable secret communications for the allies. Today, we call it WiFi.
Hedy Lamarr
500
Hey everyone, check out these sweet thumb drives I found on the ground outside the office!
USB baiting
USB drop attack
USB honeypot
500
Be careful with the free WiFi at your local coffee shop, you could actually be logging into this fruit.
WiFi Pineapple
500
The only winning move is not to play...
WarGames