Friday, February 19, 2021

Physanto's Travesty

    Starting off with episode 3, it starts with Ned Banks coming home to his brother, Jesse Banks, missing once again. Though this time leaving an obvious clue it being a crude drawing of his recent love interest for the past two episodes. After Jesse's misuse of technological practice, Ned has been trying to keep a closer eye on him after he hacked the antagonist group Phycanto and they retaliated by torturing him. However, aside antagonist is also chasing Jesse, Andy King. King was head of security of Physanto, but he went rogue and tried to sell Physanto's IP address to an Arms Dealer named Adam Guille. King's and Guilles's deal backfires as King only delivered half of what he said he would and scolded King to get the rest before he gets his payment.     

    In the meantime, while the "hidden deals" are taking place Jesse and his love interest Hani Pandare are running away to an old cabin the Bank's family used to visit when they were all together. Ned decides to snoop on who Hani truly is and is stumped by her social media page seemingly harmless until one of his co-workers finds out her password and shows Ned who she really is. Hani is a hacktivist, whose father works for Physanto as a bio-engineer, but she is also working for Phycanto as an Intel source or else her family would get deported back to their country whereas Hani stated "They would die if they were deported back!". Overall though blackmail and extortion Hani was giving the wrong representation of what a hacktivist truly was. 

    Moving onto episode four everything starts to come together starting from what Hani’s parents did to have the Department of Immigration to be investigated multiple times. During this episode, we also learn that Physanto area camera fiends, they constantly are looking through city cameras that they have access to and snooping in on conversations on their operatives and the two people they are hunting, Jesse and Ned Banks. This is the episode where Jesse cracks the encryption on the Physanto files. The files included laser-enrichment which was told by another character being Ned's source of main information was "A project every nation hasn't been able to crack in the past 50 years." .The clue he needed? Was the time when a lady took a photo of her working at certain times. Though he is caught yet again by Physanto, he is not tortured like he was last time as Physanto is not the one who caught them exactly it was the local police. Before that Jesse was framed for aggravated assault against someone that was working with Physanto. The last bit of the episode had Ned Banks being offered a deal by the head of the local major news outlet to drop the whole story he’s been digging for and they’ll help Jesse go with only community service and not years in jail. That was the last cliffhanger dropped from the episode, many questions have yet to be answered and many more appear by the hour.    


Friday, February 5, 2021

The Code: From the Top

     The Australian show The Code made by Shelley Birse, for the first two episodes, drew me in pretty hard. From what I can pick up during the episodes I watched it starts with two teens in love driving down a dirt road in the Aussie outback when they're suddenly driven off the road by someone and with editing effects made to look like they were snuffed out. But to my surprise, one of them survived and was able to find where his lover died. Unfortunately, that's where that story stops as it then jumps to two guys sitting in the car driving to someone's job. As they establish they're both brothers Ned and Jesse Banks, however, Jesse has autism and his brother has helped his brother and assumably grown to help him and calm his brother during the growth. Ned Banks works for a small online news reporter. Jesse, his brother, is a very intelligent hacker I would classify him of being an encoder and decoder. He decoded a video and made it easier for everyone to see, and he encoded some files for him and his brother’s use for his online news team. Everything started to go downhill from there, with cover-ups, sexual scandals, hackers taking down an entire online news website.

The Final Details

  This will be the final bit of information I will explain in these blogs, as this one will cover all the illegal things that have happened ...