ZERO DAY - Netflix Series

ZERO DAY | Official Trailer | Netflix
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This show is great, for what it is. Basically they took all the politics that we have seen over the last couple of years and stuffed it into these 6 episodes. I mean they've got everything. Both sides of the political spectrum are well represented here, the more extreme the viewpoint the better. We also have vicious political infighting and all the conspiracy theories you could wish for. Good visiuals on how they track networks of people by the cell phone calls they make, but you know Hollywood, they're big on visuals. Linux terminals displaying lines of neon green text on a black screen is only interesting to those who are well versed in the intricacies of whatever program they are running. The show exaggerates the risk to our computerized environment, but not by much. The danger, as always, is adding remote control / monitoring capability to existing systems (because it saves having to pay someone to actually go there and check on it), but not establishing any security around your communications line because that would just be a needless expense.

Anyway. we've got Robert DeNiro playing the head of a new agency charged with investigating a huge cyber crime, and he's literally losing his mind. Cognitive decline is a real thing and they do a good job of illustrating it here.

6 episodes 50 minutes each

Coincidentally, the FBI busted a server farm somewhere in New York this week.

This photo provided by the U.S. Secret Service, in New York, Monday, Sept. 22,2025, shows signal euqipment at the location where they were seized by the agency. (U.S. Secret Service via AP) AP

I don't know exactly what these boxes are, but they look like each box holds 30 odd cell phones. Multiple that by ten boxes and you have 300 cell phones. I do wonder what they were doing with them.

I tried watching a news report about this incident, but it was full of TV blather, so I thought I'd read the transcript, but the format is a little rough. So I copied it to a spreadsheet and used the sort function to get rid of the time stamps. What we're left with is in all capitals and sans punctuation. It's still a little rough, but you can read it here if you want.