[millionandbell]

How possible do you think half of that show is? like the program's that they use and Herald's methods of hacking, is any of it possible?

[Jiggly]

I'm not familiar with this show - Why don't you share some information about it? Maybe the synopsis?

[Slacker]

The show actually looked interesting I just forgot to DVR it lol

[millionandbell]

okay so the show is about this machine that Harold himself coded, the machine was made to detect threats and the way it does this is by watching through cameras and listening through audio and when the machine detects a threat it calls Harold ( the machine finds the closest payphone to him) and it gives him a social security number. The "hacking" methods you see a lot in this show is something they call blue jacking, which reminds me of someone exploiting the SS7 flaw, but they do it much easier. They walk up close to their intended target press something on their phone and they have full access to their targets phone. Among other things he breaks into websites with ease, gathering the information he needs about a person etc.

[Bish0pQ]

I'm not familiar with this show - Why don't you share some information about it? Maybe the synopsis?

The show actually looked interesting I just forgot to DVR it lol

I can recommend the show. It's very interesting. I watched all seasons twice. @millionandbell described it pretty good.
The use of the tools are fictional though and not the same as used in Mr.Robot (uses Kali Linux and various known tools).

@OP
The tools used in the serie do not exist OR might exist but are not known for the public. It is verry possible though. I mean the NSA uses various systems and human behavior is predictible. I think that this good be used for good and such systems are being built or have been built already. The use of quantum computers opens a whole new dimension for the processing of data and making calculations.

Of course, a quantum computer on itself does nothing, things will have to be coded and depending on the coding skills of the once building such machines it's defintly possible.
There are a few issues though:

1. It would be difficult to make a world-wide system that would be able to run calculations and predictions across whole the world.
2. Keeping it silent would be a pain in the ass. Some people are still very concerned about their privacy and making a system like that publically would probably result in protests or even riots.
3. The system would be expensive as of quantum computers aren't still "available" and it wouldn't be open-source so development would be much slower.

With all the feeds from the NSA,FBI,CCTVs, all data from Google, Facebook accounts, private messages and e-mails, YES I would defintly say that crimes or acts of terrorism could be predicted.
There's so much communication, and data available that everything is possible. We just don't have the "power" yet to process so much data.

(Of course people can disagree, but this is what I think about it.)

[millionandbell]

I did some research and such, the closest programs i can see that are relatively close to what the machine in "person of interest" does is a program called ThinTread or Trailblazer, i'm sure their are others, but these are the ones i found while researching a guy named William Binney for an ethics course.

(Check out the sources on the wikipedia page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bi..._official)

[Jiggly]

I'm not familiar with this show - Why don't you share some information about it? Maybe the synopsis?

The show actually looked interesting I just forgot to DVR it lol

I can recommend the show. It's very interesting. I watched all seasons twice. @millionandbell described it pretty good.
The use of the tools are fictional though and not the same as used in Mr.Robot (uses Kali Linux and various known tools).

@OP
The tools used in the serie do not exist OR might exist but are not known for the public. It is verry possible though. I mean the NSA uses various systems and human behavior is predictible. I think that this good be used for good and such systems are being built or have been built already. The use of quantum computers opens a whole new dimension for the processing of data and making calculations.

Of course, a quantum computer on itself does nothing, things will have to be coded and depending on the coding skills of the once building such machines it's defintly possible.
There are a few issues though:

1. It would be difficult to make a world-wide system that would be able to run calculations and predictions across whole the world.
2. Keeping it silent would be a pain in the ass. Some people are still very concerned about their privacy and making a system like that publically would probably result in protests or even riots.
3. The system would be expensive as of quantum computers aren't still "available" and it wouldn't be open-source so development would be much slower.

With all the feeds from the NSA,FBI,CCTVs, all data from Google, Facebook accounts, private messages and e-mails, YES I would defintly say that crimes or acts of terrorism could be predicted.
There's so much communication, and data available that everything is possible. We just don't have the "power" yet to process so much data.

(Of course people can disagree, but this is what I think about it.)

This is a pretty interesting line of thought. Although, keep in mind how quickly we have developed the power and technology we have today. While we may not keep developing at that rate forever, it's still moving fast. Everyone's heard the cliche about how we sent a man to the moon with less technology that what is in our phones today right?

[BreShiE]

We'll half the show is based around something that technically exists. The funny thing being it was actually before the actual thing (PRISM) that the show was shown.

[millionandbell]

We'll half the show is based around something that technically exists. The funny thing being it was actually before the actual thing (PRISM) that the show was shown.

I'm curious how something of that complexity works, i wonder if theirs any AI that detects if someones intentions are legit and such, or if the NSA actually goes through a majority of the information themselves

[Despised]

I'm not familiar with this show - Why don't you share some information about it? Maybe the synopsis?

That makes us two then.