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Does the show's effort to portray realistic hacking add any special challenges to editing? As a working information security professional, I know how boring watching someone hack can be in real life, and it's amazing how Mr. Robot tries to get it right without boring the audience.

Well, for what it's worth, I've been super-impressed. Everyone in my office (all security engineers) loves the show both for its quality of a story and for the technical accuracy. When it was first announced, I thought it was going to be terrible (see CSI: Cyber), but it's amazing how you can put together a story that appeals and maintains tension while having realism. (Compare the hacking scenes in Swordfish under seconds of time pressure to the episode where Elliot has to hack into the jail and he states that a day isn't enough.) Way to go!