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I found the IP addresses shown in that episode during the DDoS attack on evil corp. somewhat entertaining - 155.334.31.97, 155.264.991.875, 155.644.22.673,......

For a split second, I thought, I learned them wrong...

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Hollywood and the like early on learned to not put real phone numbers into movies etc. Putting in non-functional ip addresses are just as sensible, especially when some teen can point a DDOS at it in a second.

RFC 5737 - IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation [1] would be a good fit for use in TV series and movies.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737

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