Cybergeddon: Yahoo's 9-episode advertisement for Symantec

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:38 am

Yahoo! has released a web-based 9 episode (short segments of 10 minutes or less) TV program called Cybergeddon which is relatively well done and interesting even if it tends to be a bit heavy-handed at times in its real purpose: to be more-or-less an advertisement for Norton Symantec security products, although it is still an actual program with a plot.

FBI agent Chloe Jocelyn pretended to be the daughter of a well-known black-hat hacker Gustov Dobreff, in order to take him down. He bribes the guards in his prison in the Ukrane to allow him to escape, then hires some hackers to set up a huge worldwide device takeover attempt, then sets up Chloe to take the fall and be arrested for a cyber attack on the Bank of Hong Kong and a shutdown of a Los Angeles water processing plant.

Realizing she's looking at over 20 years in prison for something she didn't do, Chloe uses her knowledge as a former hacker herself to break out of security in order to find out who is framing her.

One of the cute scenes related to the advertising point of the show: when she sneaks onto a computer to find someone, there's a Post-It note on the machine that says, "Call Norton for software update" and to ensure that we see it it makes a gratuitous focus on the note.

The inserted product references are not really all that bad, compared with your typical interruptions on regular TV, and I think the show is worth watching (I'm currently watching part 7 right now). You can see the trailer or any of the segments, and if you start part 1 it automatically goes to part 2 when it ends and so on.

http://cybergeddon.yahoo.com

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:16 pm

I was disappointed when I saw the name of this stupid TV show. I was hoping that we wouldn't have a revival of the word "cyber" until after my next game comes out.

So Paul, this show is fucking terrible, right?

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:59 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I was disappointed when I saw the name of this stupid TV show. I was hoping that we wouldn't have a revival of the word "cyber" until after my next game comes out.

So Paul, this show is fucking terrible, right?

Actually, it wasn't too bad and was worth watching. Some of the plot points might be lame if you know technical details, but it was at least somewhat interesting.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:00 pm

No, you implied it was terrible earlier, so I am going wiht that, thanks