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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-address is 255." Source: http://www.tvrage.com/mr-robot/episodes/1065781052

0:50sec; "Oh hi... Elliot, just a tech!" LOL

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I believe those are intentionally fake.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909

Yes I know it was, intentionally faked. I was simply pointing this out. =)

Oh well, 198.51.100/24 would work just fine, without compromising the realism.

> 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-unusuall...

There is 3 test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses.

... then people would have complained that they have used "test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses" :)

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.

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

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