For a show based in hacking, they seem totally incapable of doing it well. They spend a whole day teaching Angela arcane linux commands. Why? Why not write a script to automate all those steps? News flash; finding a direct route with a minimum of keystrokes is exactly what hacking is. That whole process should have been broken down into one sentence; "Ok when youre ready, log in and type 'start'" TA DAAA jazz hands. Im not even going to get into the whole 'Elliot's Android 0-day' montage but whatever, I can live with that one.
Anyway the whole "OMG ILL DOX THIS GUY AND FIND OUT HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAKNESSES" shit is a cliche that I never need to see again. It's some video game shit and it needs to die. It's not a realistic dynamic to indulge in real time, ever. And Angela's savant moment with the FBI agent was just fucking terrible.
Also really? Every single fucking person in the FBI goes to lunch at once? That never happens. I mean fucking ever.
The other thing that really ground my gears was Elliot catching the beating of his life for like 5 solid minutes on the sidewalk in front of the house where his mom sleeps. Its a residential neighborhood, literally everyone would call the cops and be filming it with their cell phones as well, and standing right there orchestrating it is a guy involved in everything from drugs to kidnapping/slavery.
Lastly, I'm reasonably sure that Ray knew perfectly well that Elliot wouldnt be able to resist looking at the site contents and in doing so, would put himself in Ray's box, which I get and I think would be an appropriate plot development to be revealed as Elliot's head clears.. "You knew I'd look at the site Ray, you were counting on it" etc etc ok fine. What I do not understand, however, is how Elliot needed to walk in the front fucking door of a website which is 100% guaranteed to be an audited event that would be discovered by Ray. Surely there was enough shit laying around that server, which he had root on, for him to piece it together without explicitly crossing Ray's line? Ok thats a minor point.
What is not a minor point, is why is Elliot still alive? What can Ray possibly use him for that wouldnt put him in jeopardy? Elliot's only useful in front of a keyboard, and the first thing hes going to do is McGuyver a bunch of if-then statements that send a kite to his peoples. So again what is Ray's end game? Ray is basically facing death penalty charges if he gets caught, wouldnt that be motivation enough for him to simply have Elliot killed in his fucking bed? Perhaps they surprise me pleasantly here but I have concerns.