Notes for season 5 episode 3, “Truth be told“
09:12 So odd most of the high profile people’s phones in the show are vulnerable to “blue jacking” yet very occasionally someone will have protection installed. While I’d have hoped the bugs being exploited would have been addressed after being abused for at least five years, I guess it’s roughly analogous to people switching on “Lockdown Mode” on iPhones (a restricted configuration introduced in 2022).
14:04 Root describes packages being rerouted to an address, then later picked up and delivered to their original destination. Anyone familiar with the Snowden revelations would suspect the NSA “interdiction” method, in which shipments of electronics are diverted, implanted with malware or hardware devices, repackaged and sent on.
20:00 Reese mentions that the safehouse is out of commission, but there’s no explanation of why. (I know why, but it hasn’t been shown at this point.)
19:00 Another Samsonite briefcase. This prop is a Samsonite Delegate II attache case in gunmetal aluminium.
28:00 There are a few shots in this episode where computer interfaces have been mocked up with an unusual font. Instead of OCR-A, they’ve gone with something that subtly evokes the fake 70s “computer” typefaces (e.g. Westminster and derivatives) but it really doesn’t look great at UI scale.
29:44 We see a screenshot of source-code that’s clearly the output of a decompiler again – but it’s actually supposed to be this time. Unsurprisingly, it’s Stuxnet again.