Software used by the hackers in the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning drama/thriller series Mr. Robot.
THIS LIST CONTAINS SPOILERS UP TO AND INCLUDING SEASON 2, EPISODE 11!
Kali Linux is a Linux distro made for security researchers for penetration testing, but is also used by hackers since it is jam packed with hacking tools. It is regularly featured in Mr. Robot since it is the hackers' operating system of choice.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Tor Browser is widely considered to be the best anonymizing tool out there. It will make your Internet activity very hard to trace, which fsociety takes advantage of when Trenton in season 2, episode 8 uploads a leaked FBI conference call about illegal mass surveillance to 
Vimeo using Tor Browser.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Raspberry Pi is a small, programmable computer board designed to teach children about computer science. It is also favourite among hobbyists and programmers due to its low-cost, versatility and simplicity. In season 1, episode 5 Elliot installs a Raspberry Pi into Steel Mountain's climate control system so that fsociety at a later point in time can remotely raise the temperature in the storage room where Evil Corp's tape backups are stored, resulting in the backups of the records of a significant portion of the US' consumer debt being destroyed.
Commercial
Sep 2016
FileZilla is the world's most popular FTP client and one of the most powerful and user friendly ones. In season 1, episode 4 Trenton uses FileZilla to upload an exploit to fsociety's FTP server for the 
Raspberry Pi Elliot will install in Steel Mountain's climate control system to destroy the records of a significant portion of the US' consumer debt.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
ProtonMail is a secure, end-to-end encrypted e-mail service based in Switzerland that is used by Elliot in season 1, episode 8.
The team behind Mr. Robot researched secure e-mail services to the extent that they actually contacted the ProtonMail developers and asked if it was possible for users to monitor their own e-mail activity in ProtonMail. The ProtonMail developers liked the idea of account access logs so much that they ended up implementing it in their v2.0 release of ProtonMail.
Read more: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-mr-robot-secure-email/
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Open Source
Sep 2016
HDShredder 4 Enterprise Edition is used in season 1, episode 10 to securely wipe all of fsociety's hard drives after the Evil Corp hack before they incinerate the hard drives in the crematory of a dog pound.
Freemium
Sep 2016
John the Ripper is a password cracker included in 
Kali Linux that detects weak Unix passwords and attempts to crack them by making thousands of guesses per seconds. This is known as a brute-force attack and is used by Elliot against Evil Corp’s interim chief technology officer, Tyrell Wellick in season 1, episode 2.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Wget is a command line tool that makes HTTP(S) requests. It is used in Mr. Robot to hack an Android phone using the Shellshock bug in combination with 
John the Ripper
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Open Source
Sep 2016
The Social-Engineer Toolkit is a pentesting framework focusing on social engineering attacks like phishing, among others. Social engineering is tricking the victim to give the attacker sensitive information. In season 1, episode 5 Elliot uses Social-Engineer Toolkit's SMS spoofing function to get a supervisor to leave Steel Mountain so that he can move around in the facility on his own.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
btscanner is a tool that is included in Kali Linux that extracts as much information as possible about Bluetooth devices without having to pair. In season 1, episode 6 Elliot uses btscanner in combination with Bluesniff and 
Metasploit when he connects to the computer in a nearby police car using a MultiBlue Bluetooth USB Dongle to compromise a prison's network in order to break a drug dealer called Vera out of prison.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Bluesniff is a Bluetooth device discovery tool. In season 1, episode 6 Elliot uses Bluesniff in combination with btscanner and Metasploit when he connects to the computer in a nearby police car via a MultiBlue Bluetooth USB Dongle to compromise a prison's network in order to break a drug dealer called Vera out of prison.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
KVM is a hypervisor, which is a software that can run other operating systems via virtual machines. Elliot uses KVM to virtualize Windows 7 inside of Kali Linux. In season 1, episode 6 Elliot uses KVM to run Metasploit and Metapreter and in season 1, episode 8 he uses KVM to run 
DeepSound.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Metasploit Framework is a software included in Kali Linux that makes it easier to discover vulnerabilities in networks for penetration testers. Meterpreter is one of several hundreds of payloads that can be run in the Metasploit Framework and it is used in season 1, episode 6. In season 1, episode 6 Elliot uses Metasploit Framwork and Metapreter in combination with btscanner and Bluesniff when he connects to the computer in a nearby police car via a MultiBlue Bluetooth USB Dongle to compromise a prison's network in order to break a drug dealer called Vera out of prison.
Free Personal
Sep 2016
Framaroot - called RooterFrame in the show - is used by Tyrell Wellick in season 1, episode 3 to root a co-worker's Android phone so that he can covertly install the 
FlexiSPY spyware on the phone in order to get access to secret information about who is going to be the next chief technology officer of Evil Corp.
Free
Sep 2016
Kingo Root is used by Tyrell Wellick in season 1, episode 3 to root a co-worker's Android phone so that he can covertly install the FlexiSPY spyware on the phone in order to get access to secret information about who is going to be the next chief technology officer of Evil Corp.
Free
Sep 2016
FlexiSPY is a spyware software for Android, iOS and BlackBerry that lets the user monitor all activities on the victims phone. In season 1, episode 3 Tyrell Wellick covertly installs it on a co-worker's Android phone in order to get access to secret information about who is going to be the next chief technology officer of Evil Corp.
Commercial
Sep 2016
SuperSU is an app that managed superuser privileges on rooted Android phones. In season 1, episode 3 Tyrell Wellick covertly installs FlexiSPY - which uses SuperSU to give itself superuser access - on a co-worker's Android phone in order to get access to secret information about who is going to be the next chief technology officer of Evil Corp.
Freemium
Sep 2016
Tor is widely considered to be the best anonymizing tool out there. It will make your Internet activity very hard to trace and this edition, unlike the 
Tor Browser can be used to host Hidden Services, which are sites that are only accessible through Tor and that have their physical server location concealed by the Tor anonymity network. Ray runs a Silk Road inspired Tor Hidden Service, which he wants Elliot to do a site migration for in season 2, episode 5.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
PuTTY is a client used to connect to Linux servers. Elliot uses PuTTY in season 2, episode 4 and 5 to connect to a VPS (virtual private server) running Kali Linux, so that he can use an IRC client installed on the VPS to chat with Darlene while on Ray's computer. He also uses PuTTY in season 2, episode 5 to do a site migration on Ray's Silk Road inspired 
Tor Hidden Service.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
Elliot uses Firefox as his default web browser. Trenton uses Firefox in season 2, episode 8.
In season 2, episode 8 Trenton uses FFmpeg to encode a video containing a leaked FBI conference call about illegal mass surveillance to Vimeo using Tor Browser.
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Open Source
Sep 2016
VLC Media Player was used in season 2, episode 4 when Elliot and Darlene watched a VHS rip of the fake horror movie Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie together. VLC is also used in season 2, episode 8 when fsociety preview the video they are about to upload a leaked FBI conference call about illegal mass surveillance.
The Waybach Machine, which is operated by 
Internet Archive, is a database that contains copies of more than 490 billion web pages. In season 2, episode 8 FBI agent Dominique DiPierro reveals to Mobley that the FBI used the Wayback Machine in order to connect his hacker handle with an old fanpage he created for a DJ called DJ Mobley on the website host Angelfire.
Free
Sep 2016
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