{"id":282,"date":"2017-01-03T00:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalija.info\/?p=282"},"modified":"2017-01-03T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T00:41:14","slug":"cnn-uses-screenshot-from-fallout-4-to-show-how-russians-hack-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/en\/cnn-uses-screenshot-from-fallout-4-to-show-how-russians-hack-things\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN uses screenshot from \u2018Fallout 4\u2019 to show how Russians hack things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalija.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hakeri2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hakeri2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hakeri2-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hakeri2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The thing about computer hacking is that it\u2019s such a general, far-reaching term that it\u2019s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn\u2019t already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they\u2019re talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random strings of letters and numbers, while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they\u2019re looking at is somehow related to the topic. Or, if you\u2019re CNN, you steal footage from one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/01\/02\/steam-100-best-selling-games-2016\/\">most popular video games<\/a> of the year and hope that nobody watching will recognize it.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent story about President Obama proposing sanctions against Russia for its roll in cyberattacks targeting the United States, CNN grabbed a screenshot of the hacking mini-game from the extremely popular RPG Fallout 4. First spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/fo4\/comments\/5llb7q\/cnn_uses_fallout_hacking_footage_to_show_how\/\">Reddit<\/a>, the screenshot shows the menacing neon green letters that gamers will instantly recognize as being from the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QhgTqA\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/547\/31689288470_013d5d3f28.jpg\" alt=\"hakeri\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Fallout 4 \u2014 as well as Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas \u2014 the player can hack computers to gain information or unlock doors and safes. It\u2019s performed like a word puzzle, where the player has to find a specific word in a huge mess of letters and random characters. It\u2019s simple but fun, but it has absolutely nothing in common with actual hacking, which is what makes it perfect for mainstream news viewers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QhgTy1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/457\/31689288900_0069f60584.jpg\" alt=\"hakeri\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to talk about hacking on a major news network, your choices are either that or a scene from The Matrix,\u201d one Reddit user sums it up. Sadly, they\u2019re absolutely right.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/01\/02\/cnn-hacking-fallout-screenshot\/\">source<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about computer hacking is that it\u2019s such a general, far-reaching term that it\u2019s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn\u2019t already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they\u2019re talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random strings of letters and numbers, while the audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,13,931,326,241],"tags":[937,939,935,933,729],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer","category-en","category-hacking","category-internet-en","category-news","tag-cnn","tag-fallout-4","tag-hacking","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}