Vice President Underwood might know how to manipulate everyone from the president on down, but he doesn’t seem to know that deleting a text message doesn’t guarantee that it’s gone forever.
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The second season of “House of Cards” starring Kevin Spacey as ruthless politician Francis Underwood arrived in one big batch of 13 episodes exactly two weeks ago, and we’ve all been binge-watching since. By the way, if you haven’t yet made it all the way through season 2, this is about as far as you should read without risking spoilers. I’ll say that again in all caps for you skim-readers out there — SPOILER ALERT!!! That’s better.
The web of intertwined intrigue and drama this season also introduced a new plotline in which fictional Washington Herald deputy editor Lucas Goodwin becomes ensnared in a plot to gain access to an AT&T server farm with the assistance of shadowy hacker Gavin Orsay. Goodwin believes Orsay is assisting him in tracking down evidence of Underwood’s murderous habits. Unbeknownst to Goodwin, however, Orsay is a grudging informant for the FBI, which is entrapping Goodwin to send him off to prison and out of Underwood’s hair.
With so much tech and hacker content in the storyline, and “House of Cards” more or less a production of the Hollywood establishment (albeit Spacey and the awesome wing of said establishment), there were inevitably going … [Read more]
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