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Shut Up and Dance
Season 3 Episode 3
Overall Progress: 60%
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A teenager is blackmailed by hackers who threaten to release compromising footage unless he follows their increasingly dangerous instructions.
Fictional Tech/Societal Changes
- 🤖❌Hacker blackmail
- 👁️❌Webcam spying
- 🔒❌Online coercion and extortion
How Close Are We?
Webcam hacking and sextortion are real and growing threats. Malware and phishing attacks can activate webcams without users' knowledge, and criminals use stolen footage for blackmail. High-profile cases and FBI warnings highlight the risks. Ransomware and online coercion are common, though most cases do not escalate to the extreme, orchestrated scenarios depicted in the episode. Awareness and security tools (webcam covers, antivirus) are now widespread, but the threat remains significant in the digital age.