How could / should one (figuratively) imagine a hacker hacking someone else's computer (PC, laptop, television, mobile phone, etc.)?
Lots of black windows open on 4 monitors, green letters with lots of 010100010101101101, which move fluently and quickly.
No, it's actually more boring than you think and it depends on how the person tries to gain access
Sitting in a café, sipping a latte macchiato, receiving an email that the infected computer has reported.
Hacker attacks are carefully prepared software on attack paths for which just as carefully researched and planned.
For the illustration I would use the series' Mr. Highly recommend Robot '. A lot of realness and also for people not too computer savvy, the attack tactics are very nicely demonstrated.
Coding is just routine when hacking. It has to be thought abstractly. In the end, the software is just one element in a long chain.
It looks different for everyone.
For me it's been like this lately: I'm sitting on the bed, have Termux open on an Android tablet that is in a BT keyboard.
Meanwhile, my wife is crocheting next to me and we're listening to Inforadio.
Only yesterday I completed a completely legal order in this way that was paid for by the system operator.
A real computer is incomparably more powerful, but Termux on the bed is sufficient for relatively simple tasks.
That move fluently fast
You need to move vertically fluently and quickly.
