Deep-voiced announcer, with a touch of menace in his tone: Next week on CSI: Cyber, the team heads to the RSA Conference to appear on a keynote panel before an audience of enraged cybersecurity professionals. Some have attended the session just for the chance to be infuriated. Some are only there for the free ice cream. Will the team get out alive?

CSI: Cyber, the CBS crime drama, has had some outrageous plotlines, but this is the worst one of all — because unlike the absurdities that pass for entertainment each week on network TV, this one is really happening. Most security professionals find the program ridiculous and exploitative, but as long as it was confined to the airwaves, it could be ignored. When it is given a prominent position at one of the cyber world’s premier security conferences, however, it becomes an outrage.

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