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Syfy and Relativity Develop Unscripted Series ‘Hackers’

By: Robert Prentice
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“Hack The Planet!”. No Syfy has not decided to try and remake a classic 90s film about hackers. Syfy has decided to take another trip down the reality TV-lane with a new series focused around computer hackers. Security breeches like the most recent hack at Sony Pictures are fresh in everyone’s mind. Syfy is banking on peoples’ curiosity about the world of hacking and cyber security. It reads too much like a dateline NBC show to me, but what do you think?

(Press Release) NEW YORK – January 5, 2015 – Syfy today announced that it is teaming with Relativity Television (“Catfish: The TV Series”) to develop a groundbreaking new unscripted series, Hackers, which will take viewers deep inside the shadowy and dangerous world of high-tech hackers for the very first time.

Hackers will reveal the secrets behind the most infamous cyber-crimes ever committed, using sophisticated, never-before-seen digital graphics to create an experiential “hacking” scene that exposes what actually happens when a computer network is broken into – including what goes on inside the mind of the hacker.

Each episode of Hackers will unveil the true stories — ripped from the headlines — of real-life hackers who turned entire industries upside down, featuring interviews with both the actual perpetrators and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down.

The episodes will include profiles and professional secrets of the hacker, who will reveal how they committed the crime, from trolling the Internet to rooting out vulnerabilities inside the company websites.

Executive producers of Hackers will be Tom Forman and Brad Bishop.

But since we are on the subject of hackers, lets take a trip down memory lane to a time when hacking was more fun than ‘criminal’. Reality for IT professionals is far less hollywood then people would like to think but hell it was still a fun film right? HACK THE PLANET!

 

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