(Part 2) Top products from r/MrRobot

Hey, sorry you are feeling that way! I have definitely felt similar at times. The lack of enjoyment you're describing is often termed "anhedonia", which is a symptom of depression (although it doesn't necessarily mean you're clinically depressed - also I'm not a doctor :P). I think I have 3 main suggestions!

First, I see in another comment you are considering seeing a therapist. I would just say that I've had several years of therapy and it's taken me from a place of often feeling like you describe, or worse, to a point where I am very happy with my life. There is nothing shameful about it - on the contrary, you can feel proud about going, as it means you are taking care of yourself!

Second, making sure that you are getting exercise is hugely important! Exercise can have as big or bigger of an effect as antidepressant medication. I highly recommend this book. It's a great guide to the benefits of exercise for mood, and practical tips on getting started and building an exercise routine.

Thirdly, if it appeals to you at all, meditation is also a huge help! I would recommend Headspace to get started. No affiliation, I just really benefited from the app - there are tons of others too. I don't use it anymore but I do have a regular meditation practice and it really helps me regulate my mood.

I feel like there is a good sense of connection and camraderie on this sub. We all are drawn to this show in various ways, but like you describe, I think many of us identify will Elliot and the emotional struggles he has. From that perspective, it's not odd to ask for help here. It's nice to be able to help each other out!

I hope you find something that works for you! Just remember that it can take time to make changes, and don't get discouraged if it takes a while to feel better. You can do it!

Excellent questions! If you are a CS grad you are ahead of the game. However, it all depends on what you want to do. I suggested learning programming/CS principles for two reasons:

1. The more you understand how computers, code, compliers, software, stacks, memory randomization, CPU protection rings, and the such work the better you are at hacking. You can find novel ways to get into systems and exploit them, etc.
   
   
2. You can write basic tools on the fly. It is amazing the tools you can create with a few lines of code when you have access to nothing but a GCC compiler in a *nix environment.
   
   If you want to find zero day exploits, yes learn how low level languages work. It would be very helpful in that case.
   
   Otherwise, Learn python (or whatever is popular at the time) to write your own exploit tools....or to modify existing ones.
   
   
   If you want to be apart of a red team learning lower level languages could make you a better exploiter. However, IMO, I would start with just learning the basics of hacking.
   
   
   These two books are old but they are absolute standards for anyone starting off:
   
   https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593271441/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_GYIACb1Z2YXFA
   
   And:
   
   https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593275641/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_zZIACbMH0WTMP
   
   
   Also, learn as much as you can on how windows/Linux/virtual machines (and containers) work. The more you know about how an OS works the easier it is to exploit.
   
   Learn to exploit, there are a ton of free sites to help you learn:
   
   http://overthewire.org/wargames/
   
   
   https://www.cybrary.it
   
   
   
   www.vulnhub.com
   
   
   http://google-gruyere.appspot.com
   
   
   
   Learn CTF challenges:
   
   https://ctflearn.com
   
   
   When you are able to hack take part in real challenges:
   
   
   https://ctf365.com
   
   
   Then start your career with a RESPECTED CERT, OSCP:
   
   
   https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-certifications/oscp-offensive-security-certified-professional/
   
   The OSCP is no joke and it is a timed, 24 hour cert test. Yes, you read that right, 24 hours.
   
   Unless you want a government gig stay away from C|EH, it is a joke cert in the community. Again, unless you need to work for a gov agency
   
   
   
   Finally, and I cannot stress this enough.....LEARN CLOUD COMPUTING!!! It is here to stay and on-prem systems are dying a slow death. It will change how you exploit systems and how software is engineered/deployed.
   
   

Not to be nitpicky, but he's not wearing a hazmat suit. Hazmat suits are meant to totally protect the body against any airborn or touched hazardous materials, and are typically made of some material that doesn't let stuff permeate it.

What this dude is wearing is something more like a disposable paint suit.

These are usually made of a cotton based material and feels almost like you're wearing a big body sized paper towel. Aside from using these to, well, paint, people working around sensitive electronics will wear them as well to prevent skin dandruff, hair, and body dust from contaminating the environment or the electronics they are working on. Here's an example.

Why this guy wears one? Probably to ensure his dna isn't left anywhere. He's like the DA's courier, so this suit helps ensure no trace is left behind.

I'm really glad you're interested in learning more! A good starting place would be to read the ISSTD's treatment guidelines: https://www.isst-d.org/downloads/GUIDELINES_REVISED2011.pdf. Even though it's meant for medical professionals, it's the best source for factual, evidence-based info. (As you already may have discovered via google, there's a lot of misinformation out there.)

I also strongly recommend checking out Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation: https://www.amazon.ca/Coping-Trauma-related-Dissociation-Training-Therapists/dp/039370646X. Unlike the academic language of the treatment guidelines, this book was written in consultation with people who experience dissociation and it gives the best picture out there of what it's really like and how someone who has it can move forward. (When I got my copy it was like finally being handed "your life: the users manual").

My take was that we should have probably seen the 71 bombs coming. I remember watching Elliot try to re-route the trucks and thinking how the DA would also see this and could work around it by bombing the trucks en route if need be. They have the destinations and transit paths and everything Elliot has. Or just carjack them and burn the records inside. Lots of options here for the DA, but I didnt see bombing every building they stopped at coming, but someone did. In fact, a redditor figured it out weeks ago and his comment is linked on the front page, but the comment was fairly buried so maybe Sam and his team missed it.


On the more sci-fi/future tech front, the Congo is the world's source of cobalt which has more applications than just weapons and batteries. It has been discovered in the lab to facilitate quantum tunneling. My layperson's understanding is that this is all possible due to cobalt's unique magnetization properties and that QT is pretty much teleportation. It allows particles to move through a barrier without actually going through the barrier. Sam may be hinting that China has figured out how to make this work in human scale and with huge amounts of low-cost cobalt could have the key to things like dimensional travel (where do you go if you don't pass through the barrier? You could bypass it via a higher spatial dimension). If you can enter higher spatial dimensions then you more or less have time travel. You can look back on our entire timeline from the 4th dimension, see everything, and even interact with it somehow. No one really 'dies' because everyone's life can be seen from a higher spatial dimension like running through a nonstop video of their lives. Cliff Pickover has a fun and easy to read book on the subject for those interested.

On a more ridiculous sci-fi front, perhaps large scale quantum tunneling did actually happen at the WTP. Edward, and perhaps others, were briefly tunneled into a higher spatial dimension, essentially making them trans-dimensional beings whether they realize it or not. Edward's consciousness is safely in this higher dimension and intervenes in the modern world through Elliot's body as he sees fit. WR may have shown Angela that her mother is also a trans-dimensional being due to being at the WPT and could be accessed similarly. Zhang/WR then would also have this connection, perhaps granted by a similar accident in China. Perhaps WR was an WTP employee too, not Zhang himself, but a once alive physical woman that now works through Zhang the same way Edward works through Elliot. Maybe this woman was literally his sister, or other relative, who migrated to the US to study physics and landed a job at E-corp.

This can also explain WR's obsession with time. Imagine being able to access the 4th dimension where 3rd dimension time is just a property you can manipulate as you like, a bit like running the slider on a youtube video or playing around with scenes and objects in a game engine and being able to move the physics forward or backwards as you like. You'd be able to see our future but the future, I imagine, would be an infinite range of possibilities but you can narrow it down to a 'if x happens then what happens next' system and have limited but powerful precognition powers. It must feel oppressive to be in the 3rd dimension and to be 'locked' into real time. That's on top of knowing what a plausible timeline in our future could be and trying to make those future outcomes happen here, which would require perfect timing unless you want your probability wave to go someplace you didn't plan on. Everything must be perfect to the split second or your predictive information from the 4th dimension won't work.

WR's big plan may be to recreate the WTP accident globally and on a much larger scale so everyone can tunnel to a higher spatial dimension after death. Consciousness just finds its way to a higher dimension where 3rd dimension limitations like death don't matter. This also explains why the DA is so casual about dying. If WR's plan works out, they will become immortal and accessible to us regardless of when or how they died.

hello! I’m the girl who posted the cosplay photos, and here’s I got almost everything from Amazon!

Hat-https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001FARML4/ref=sspa_mw_detail_0?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=APCG45FOXJN54

Jacket-https://www.amazon.com/Legendary-Whitetails-Journeyman-Rugged-Tobacco/dp/B00EUHCUIO/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1549686904&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mr+robot+jacket&dpPl=1&dpID=413WlcHyQSL&ref=plSrch

Mask-https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Robot-Fsociety-Adult-Mask/dp/B01ENRXCOQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549686926&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mr+robot+mask&dpPl=1&dpID=41rABaw4%2BcL&ref=plSrch

Patch-I printed a photo out and attached it to a cardboard backing, but I know they have patches on amazon!

Shirts-I wore a black t-shirt and layered an old flannel on top of it!

Scarf-Again, old scarf, so I’m unsure of where I got it. Any pattern would do well, though, as long as it was brown/tan!

Glasses-My own glasses lol. I did the same cosplay back when I had hipster-esque glasses; it doesn’t impact anything too much unless you’re a stickler for the details.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, let me know!

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Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model (called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events as "equally real", and concludes that countless copies of every person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over an infinity of universes: many worlds. Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring rational order to the professional realms in which he played historically significant roles. In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and performed pioneering work in artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners. He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with such philosophically inclined physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics. In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem - the existence of a universe of universes - has gained considerable traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an explanation of physical reality.

I personally have never heard that phrase as a suggestion for lucid dreaming, but its been several years since I read one of the definitive books on the process.

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Yes, lucid dreaming is aided by "short sentence recited repeatedly". I know a common one is to simply ask "Is this a dream?" or "wake up inside the dream".

If you want to try it, ask those questions at various points in your day and keep it as a running thought - so when you do dream, you might be able to catch the oddness of whats going on and 'wake up, inside of your dream."

Depending on the subject. Like there's a lot of foundational subjects in CS and programming that are still relevant since decades ago. Like this book https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/dp/0262510871

which was on teachyourselfcs.com

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0131480057

Here is a start. It is a big book and has been sitting on my shelf unread since I bought it, but it gets good reviews.

Your party sounds wonderful.
I have a prize suggestion: A goldfish (like Qwerty). A live fish is probably a bad idea, but what about a water-activated robot fish?

Yeah - I'm probably the odd one out, having almost no programming- or technology-related books left on my shelf - other than a couple of the classics that don't get outdated. I do still have this one and this one, although those are only for nostalgic reasons.

The set dresser comment was before I saw what else was on the shelf - I don't find it all that unlikely a collection now - although I'm still hard pressed to find a reason that Elliot would need e.g. a "missing manual" for OSX Mavericks in 2013. Or a relatively recent (from the typeface and colors, probably at least mid-00's) edition of PCs for Dummies. :-) But like someone said, maybe that was a gift.

/r/MrRobotLounge The Inmates Are RUNning the Asylum now that Ron's in Jail - yes, about digital computers

>their main goal is ALWAYS to protect the host personality

Not quite true. If you read this, she did actually have an alter who engaged in destructive, self-harming behaviours. Which did protect her, the main personality, by enabling her to function relatively normally at times. People with DID also sometimes have inner child alters - see here.

I actually already have a copy of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. My personal library consists of around 45 books on a range of computing topics from PHP, MySQL, C++, Windows Internals, CCNA, MCSE/MCSA, Unix, Rootkits, AI, Data Structures and the list goes on.

Other relevant titles include Gray Hat Python, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel.

I was going to buy the following: Assembly Language Step-by-step, SQL Injection Attacks and Defense and Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide.

I agree that where one starts really depends on what they want to end up doing. "Hacking" is such a general term and SQL-Injections is completely different from finding 0-days. If I'm honest I'm not sure where to start but I'm open to suggestions.

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Why Kasparov? Read that name somewhere recently?

Have you ever read The Age of Spiritual Machines? I think you'd dig it.

For anyone who is looking for a narrative to read more about D.I.D., check out the book entitled "The Minds of Billy Milligan." This book is based off a real person, Billy Milligan, who developed 24 distinct personalities within himself after a traumatic childhood experience with his father. Some of them are men, some are lesbians, one is right-handed, one is Yugoslavian... it gets pretty detailed. Probably the worst case of DID recorded to date.

In the story, Billy's alternate personalities committed several felonies and he was arrested for them, but pleaded insanity on the count of him not being able to remember what he did because his alternate personalities were acting instead of him. This was the first real prominent case of Multiple Personality Disorder (now known as DID), and one of the first few cases where someone's been acquitted because of an insanity plea. Great book, easy read, check it out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan
https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes/dp/0553263811

EDIT: More words.

I thought that was her threatening Philip, and she wanted to piss on the grave of her enemies. Frank Tipler's resurrection involves AI becoming the conciousness of the cosmos and being able to create all that was. https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Immortality-Frank-J-Tipler/dp/0385467982/ref=asc_df_0385467982/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312009828129&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15219218671177950557&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007582&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-568348826366&psc=1

this book was very interesting, and I thought those crazy promises that White Rose did to uh.. BLond Girl forgot her name.... was her explaining her master plan to erect the AI god and transcend humanity

I don't think you will find a book on a global financial crisis as devastating as Mr.Robot from a hack, but you can find books such as "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon" that deal with real world scenarios that can turn cyber weapons into real world problems portrayed in Mr.Robot
https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196