But the show is actually named after a supporting player – Mr Robot – the mysterious leader of an underground hacking collective who recruits Alderson to destroy the company he is paid to protect, putting him between a rock and a hard place.
The US has accused the Chinese People's Liberation Army of hacking into American websites, with the FBI recently investigating an attack on Register.
But at one point, Michael Lynton, the chief executive of Sony Entertainment, wanted the job, according to emails that were published online during the Sony hacking scandal last year.
But this is a nightmare, from the public's point of view and even the state's: it exposes communications to anyone willing to do a bit of hacking.
The trousers are intended to stop thieves hacking into radio frequency identification (RFID) tagged passports or contactless payment cards.
China's internet tsar has lashed out at US cyber hacking allegations against his country, saying it was in fact the "world's largest victim" of the practice.
As he was hacking at one of the roots the axe struck on something hard.
I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ring fastened to a trapdoor of the same metal.
