Cyber Crime (18)

Use of digital resources to support criminal acts and/or terrorism

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  • Privacy
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  • Human Control of Technology
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  • Kinolab
  • 1990
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Data Takes Over: Robots and Humans in the Workplace

With his homing signal activated, the android Data takes control of the USS Enterprise and its systems and blocks the human crew from stopping him. For further reading, see the narrative Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading.

  • Kinolab
  • 1990
  • 4 min
  • Kinolab
  • 1982
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Artificial Intelligence as Servants to Humans

Flynn codes a digital avatar, Clu, in an attempt to hack into the mainframe of ENCOM. However, when Flynn fails to get Clu past the virtual, video-game-like defenses, Clu is captured and violently interrogated by a mysterious figure in the virtual world.

  • Kinolab
  • 1982
  • 5 min
  • Kinolab
  • 1993
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Systems Errors in Entertainment Areas

Jurassic Park is an under-review theme park where innovator John Hammond has managed to use computational genomics to revive the dinosaurs. The park is managed by a complex security system, involving an internet of things which connects security cameras, other monitors, and defense systems to the computers in the control room. Computer programmer Dennis Nedry, under command of a briber, uses malware to hack the computer systems and steal dinosaur DNA, turning the park into a very hostile environment for the scientists once the safety mechanisms fail.

  • Kinolab
  • 1993
  • 11 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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Technological Tortures and Traps

Museum curator Rolo shows off the exhibition of Clayton, a former death row inmate whose consciousness became digital during one of Rolo’s experiments. Despite evidence of his innocence, Clayton was put to death, and his digitally immortal consciousness was subjected to torture inside Rolo’s museum, with guests being able to simulate the electric chair shock on the holographic Clayton and eventually putting him in a conscious but vegetative state. Clayton’s daughter Nish shows up to settle the score, trapping Rolo in an eternal state of torture in a small digital device.

  • Kinolab
  • 2017
  • 11 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2016
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Hacked Drones and Targeting Citizens

Detectives Karin Parke and Blue Coulson work together to put an end to the series of mysterious murders perpetrated by the #DeathTo trend on social media. In this “Game of Consequences,” the person most mentioned under this hashtag each day becomes the target of ADIs, government drones shaped like bees, to track down and kill. This trend was spurred by bots on social media, drawing many people into participation, and a sole hacker was responsible both for the bots and for the abuse of the drones. After the detectives fail to protect one victim of the #DeathTo trend, they attempt to shut down the malware, but instead discover a large data mine and unleash a much more massive danger.

  • Kinolab
  • 2016
  • 10 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2016
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Cyber Blackmailing and Compromising Data

In this episode, Kenny’s life is upended after hackers use malware to access a compromising video of Kenny on his laptop. Under the threat of this humiliating video being sent to everyone in his contacts, Kenny becomes a puppet of the hackers, forced to have his location services on and be tracked and contacted through his smartphone wherever he goes. Along with other puppets of the hackers, including a man named Hector who had an affair, he is forced to commit heinous acts such as a bank robbery and a fight to the death. Despite their compliance, the hackers release the puppets’ information anyway, leading to vast consequences in their personal lives.

  • Kinolab
  • 2016
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