The Casa de Papel is the inevitable Netflix success of the first quarter of 2018. The series, very popular, does not escape the clichés on the computer.
We thought there would be a before and after Mr. Robot. The series finally managed to overcome the clichés of hackers and computer science in general. Certainly, we always found ourselves in the presence of a man with hoodie mid-genius half-asocial, but this time, what he did on computers was not just tapping on a keyboard to display false lines of code or press a red "Access Denied" button on a black background to become "Access Granted" to penetrate any security system.
It is an understatement that Casa de Papel has not learned the lesson. The Spanish telenovela that takes place in the heart of a robbery manages to be as funny when it shows the computer that it is addictive for anyone who has tasted the first episodes. Despite its charm, there are still so absurd tech references that they do not pass. And it goes from the cute to the grotesque. From raising eyebrows to laughter, Netflix's most-watched non-English-language show has a great arsenal of funny situations.
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THE INTERFACE OF MODIFICATION OF THE VOICE
In good mysterious individual who organizes a robbery with hostage, The Professor needs to change his voice to speak to the police. Its computer interface to manage this software is similar to the video animations that we put on Windows Media Player or Winamp in the 2000s while playing music. And it is also probably a video, since it remains animated permanently as if sound entered, whether the Professor is speaking or not.
PIRACY OF CAMERAS IN REAL TIME
Rio is a computer genius. And like all good genius, he just need a laptop connected to anything to do absolutely everything. During the first robbery scene, as the truck rushes inside the Madrid Mint building, Rio taps (probably randomly) on his keyboard and detects real-time security cameras on a map, with their position that is also updating. So, of course, we know that institutions can sometimes be sieves, but here we enter into pure cinematography. To hell with it!
THE HACK OF ALL SMARTPHONE
The Casa de Papel manages to make the means of triangulation of a smartphone rather well. In real life, with a mandate and for an investigation, the police can indeed locate the antennas on which connects a smartphone and operate an extremely precise geolocation of the device. But the series derails completely when it shows smartphones get hacked. There are of course people who type anything on a keyboard and red buttons that turn green, showing big CONNECTED. This small manipulation gives access to any smartphone and its cameras in less than a minute, as long as it has an internet connection. Intelligence agencies would dream.
"SONAR" TYPE TRACKING OF AGENTS
Any self-respecting government h4ck3r has a map of all the buildings in the world, video game card way, and Casa de Papel's policemen are no exception to the rule. The scene of infiltration of the two agents is followed scrupulously on a screen of control on which one can see their progression, underground, to the meter close. So yes, Uber knows where you are with good precision when you order a race, but try using a GPS in an underground car park ... it will not be the same story.
DUPLICATE THE PIXELS!
Ah, we were waiting for him. Since NCIS, the zoom in the blurred photographs (which makes them sharp) has become a cliché of the genre that must absolutely be present in a series. The series presents a fantastic example of reconstitution of photography: from a fuzzy camera archive, agents ask to "duplicate pixels" ... and presto, the photo is clear and clear. Of course, today we have algorithms capable of doing wonders, but this science still needs a lot of computing power and does not (yet) perform miracles. In a few years, perhaps it will become something common: who knows, La Casa de Papel may have a little anticipation.
THE MICRO IN GOGGLES WITH INFINITE REACH
At a crucial moment in the series, an officer is being robbed by the burglars in the branch of his glasses. It is therefore roughly less than 2 mm thick (not counting the interface, with battery, motherboard and transmitter), is covered with a layer of plastic but seems to be the most magical microphone in the history of microphones . Indeed, its scope seems absolutely infinite, it works in all circumstances (perhaps with a SIM card?) And most importantly, it allows to hear all the conversations.
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