In the movie Black Hat, Nicholas with the help of Captain Chen Dawai, his sister Chen Lien and FBI agent Barrett configures a way to find the perpetrators responsible for a nuclear plant explosion and the hackers that initiated a pump and dump scheme to the Mercantile Trade Exchange. Throughout the duration of the movie, the characters find themselves traveling all over the globe trying to find the persons responsible for these series of serious offenses. However, they find themselves facing life and death situations and eventually the captain and agent Barrett dies during an exchange of gunfire leaving Nicholas and Chen to find the hackers alone.
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In the movie, he was portrayed in a negative and positive light because of his talent in the realm of hacking. Nicholas and the captain were responsible for the explosion at the nuclear plant because the code that the perpetrators used was written by them when they were attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, their code was found online and modified to commit cyber crimes by hackers. On the other hand, the captain was capable of getting Nicholas furloughed from prison in order to help him track down the perpetrators and his men who were using their code to commit cyber crimes. Since Nicholas was working with the government, he was a nation state actor. According to the Holt, Bossler, & Seigfried-Spellar, (2015), a nation state actor is a hacker at the behest of a government” (p.39). In Nicholas case, he was working for the United States FBI and the Chinese government to track Kassar and his men, who were responsible for the explosion at the nuclear plant and the pump and dump scheme. The reemergence of Nicholas’ and the captain’s code was an example of how people such as Robert Morris, whose skills in the realm of technology were not meant to cause harm, but unfortunately …show more content…
Nicholas was the gray hat hacker because he typically acted in an ethical manner when he was helping to track down hackers. The reason why Nicholas is described as a gray hat hacker instead of a white hat hacker is because of his past. The reason why he was arrested in the first place was because he was committing computer crimes. On the other hand, the hackers were black hats. Their goal was to make a fortune doing pump and dump schemes and other cyber crimes. The reason why the hackers committed a pump and dump scheme in the beginning was to finance a bigger scheme using tin futures. One of the hackers named Sadak did not care about the people that he killed while he committed his crimes. He only had one goal in mind which was to show how powerful he was in the realm of hacking. In the movie, Sadak even stated that, “This isn 't about money. This isn 't about politics. I can target anyone, anything, anywhere” (Mann, 2015). He wanted to show to Nicholas the power he had and the damage he can do through codes and different forms of
The team considered that the hackers were using a RAT, which is a remote access tool to do their …show more content…
In the movie, he was portrayed in a negative and positive light because of his talent in the realm of hacking. Nicholas and the captain were responsible for the explosion at the nuclear plant because the code that the perpetrators used was written by them when they were attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, their code was found online and modified to commit cyber crimes by hackers. On the other hand, the captain was capable of getting Nicholas furloughed from prison in order to help him track down the perpetrators and his men who were using their code to commit cyber crimes. Since Nicholas was working with the government, he was a nation state actor. According to the Holt, Bossler, & Seigfried-Spellar, (2015), a nation state actor is a hacker at the behest of a government” (p.39). In Nicholas case, he was working for the United States FBI and the Chinese government to track Kassar and his men, who were responsible for the explosion at the nuclear plant and the pump and dump scheme. The reemergence of Nicholas’ and the captain’s code was an example of how people such as Robert Morris, whose skills in the realm of technology were not meant to cause harm, but unfortunately …show more content…
Nicholas was the gray hat hacker because he typically acted in an ethical manner when he was helping to track down hackers. The reason why Nicholas is described as a gray hat hacker instead of a white hat hacker is because of his past. The reason why he was arrested in the first place was because he was committing computer crimes. On the other hand, the hackers were black hats. Their goal was to make a fortune doing pump and dump schemes and other cyber crimes. The reason why the hackers committed a pump and dump scheme in the beginning was to finance a bigger scheme using tin futures. One of the hackers named Sadak did not care about the people that he killed while he committed his crimes. He only had one goal in mind which was to show how powerful he was in the realm of hacking. In the movie, Sadak even stated that, “This isn 't about money. This isn 't about politics. I can target anyone, anything, anywhere” (Mann, 2015). He wanted to show to Nicholas the power he had and the damage he can do through codes and different forms of