Of course, a lack of good images isn’t necessarily a good excuse for using video game graphics to get cybersecurity issues across in a serious news story. ( They did.)īut broadcast outlets like CNN have it even harder than print media because they have to find engaging visuals for an entire video segment instead of just an image to top a story.
A few years ago, a San Francisco tech collective called the Hacker Dojo even took its own over-the-top “hacker” pictures and posted them on public Flickr accounts as a prank, to see whether news sites would use them in stories. They think that the graphics perpetuate stereotypes of the creepy loner at a computer-and the images definitely include more men than women. The kind of images Welcomia makes drives some cybersecurity experts crazy.
The pseudonymous illustrator also acknowledged knowing “nothing about hacking.” “That’s why you usually create an attractive, exaggerated image-like in cinema,” said the artist, who goes by the handle “Welcomia” on image marketplace Shutterstock. “To be honest, a photo of some real hacking would be just too boring,” one illustrator who makes stock hacking illustration told Motherboardlast year.
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