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Good tv show, but IP addresses still fake :-) "The IP-address Elliot is instructed to leave in the .dat-file is 218.108.149.373. The highest number in an IPv4-a

by tux 11y ago

Good tv show, but IP addresses still fake :-) "The IP-address Elliot is instructed to leave in the .dat-file is 218.108.149.373. The highest number in an IPv4-address is 255." Source: http://www.tvrage.com/mr-robot/episodes/1065781052 http://www.tvrage.com/mr-robot/episodes/1065781052 0:50sec; "Oh hi... Elliot, just a tech!" LOL Article Mirror @ https://archive.is/nCIZH https://archive.is/nCIZH

josephagoss 11y ago
It's not like .373 added anything to the plot. This probably means that the IP was a mistake, which is odd as I heard that they had network experts working on all of these tech scenes.
- thomasrossi 11y ago
  That's what you can expect from tech experts working in TV shows @)
adhipg 11y ago
I believe those are intentionally fake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909
- tux 11y ago
  Yes I know it was, intentionally faked. I was simply pointing this out. =)
- ild 11y ago
  Oh well, 198.51.100/24 would work just fine, without compromising the realism.
MarcScott 11y ago
> There was a huge online audience that revolted at the idea of an IP address that doesn’t exist — in one of the scenes, there is an octet above 255, which would not be a proper IP address, and there were many people who screamed about that. The story behind that is simply that legal would not let Sam publish a real IP address because that would be irresponsible and inappropriate. Sometimes you lose those battles, and Sam had to put a bad IP address in the scene. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusually-accurate.html http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusuall...
- ild 11y ago
  There is 3 test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses.
  - pbc 11y ago
    ... then people would have complained that they have used "test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses" :)

by tux 11y ago

josephagoss 11y ago

It's not like .373 added anything to the plot. This probably means that the IP was a mistake, which is odd as I heard that they had network experts working on all of these tech scenes.

thomasrossi 11y ago
That's what you can expect from tech experts working in TV shows @)

adhipg 11y ago

I believe those are intentionally fake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909

tux 11y ago
Yes I know it was, intentionally faked. I was simply pointing this out. =)
ild 11y ago
Oh well, 198.51.100/24 would work just fine, without compromising the realism.

MarcScott 11y ago

> There was a huge online audience that revolted at the idea of an IP address that doesn’t exist — in one of the scenes, there is an octet above 255, which would not be a proper IP address, and there were many people who screamed about that. The story behind that is simply that legal would not let Sam publish a real IP address because that would be irresponsible and inappropriate. Sometimes you lose those battles, and Sam had to put a bad IP address in the scene. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusually-accurate.html http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusuall...

ild 11y ago
There is 3 test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses.
- pbc 11y ago
  ... then people would have complained that they have used "test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses" :)