Do they ever use mouse?
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That part is basically the only true thing about Hollywood hacking.
In real life, Mr Robot is much closer to the truth.
You spend months investigating systems to see if you can find a vulnerability in a given router, operating system (windows), software (like the server running on windows) or some appliance (like your automatic vacuum).
Once you find a vulnerability, you most likely sell the instructions to someone interested.
The guy who buys it has a specific target in mind, like Big Bank™, because they know that Big Bank uses that specific kind of appliance/software/os/hardware. They then run the software (just like you would – pretty much double click the program), wait a few minutes, get a result, and pray to God that they won’t be discovered.
If you don’t sell the secret you found, you might instead make some widespread attack, like writing an “invisible” program and upload it to the internet. You then wait for the results, hoping you’re right about being hidden, and that it actually works on everyones computer. In this case you might receive results once in a while, for several months or years.
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