They're exaggerating to say that these hacks are real. They certainly aren't real in the way they portray them in the game, by just pointing at something and knowing instantly what can be hacked on the device and then pressing a single button to actually do the hack.<p>But even without that, most of the "real life" versions of these hacks aren't nearly so useful as in the game.<p>The game even invented fake operating systems and security systems so that they could have what the game needed to be able to hack them. And they were all internet connected, of course. Unlike real security systems. (I'll grant that a lot of home security systems are on the internet, but corporate offices? No.)