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I just finished watching the the season finale of the TNT show Leverage on the DVR. Knowing TNT, there will be repeats galore, plus it’s available online so you should invest some time and watch it also.

I’m not a huge TV fan, many of the shows I “like” I could easily drop, but Leverage has easily come into competition with Burn Notice as my favorite show. I’ve always been amused by Social Engineering in practice. Back in my “grey hat” days I would be amazed when record themselves calling up some business and get information about a customer. So Leverage is relevant to my interests as most of the plot deals with scamming people who richly deserve it. Some of the plots are slightly far-fetched from a technical standpoint, but I can suspend my disbelief well enough only to emit a light chuckle. The characters are great and the show has some great lines:

I’m a functioning alcoholic; the trick is not to get hung up on the ‘alcoholic,’ but celebrate the ‘functioning’ part of the sentence.

The show is up there with (Clooney) Oceans 11 for writing and plot. I would highly recommend it to anyone within the InfoSec crowd or anyone who enjoys good “heist” style plots.