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Notes for season 2 episode 10, “Shadow Box“ 05:00 “You heard the 10-31 too, detective?” (Burglary in-progress. Although this was a case of a staff member, permitted to be on the premises, downloading a file without authorisation. So not technically a burglary?) 07:41 Finch is able to open a remote desktop mirror, but using sftp…

Notes for season 2 episode 9, “C.O.D.“ 02:30 Finch carries a credit card that puts the taxi’s information terminal into admin mode, giving him access to the onboard camera. A reminder that every cab conversation is in the presence of the police. 03:59 Even in the context of the show, the intensive surveillance of random…

Notes for season 2 episode 8, “Til Death“ 03:40 Add ebook publisher eastvillagepublishing.com to the Warners domain pool. 04:52 The RFID duplicator Finch hands Reese has the same form factor as you’d get if you searched AliExpress for “handheld RFID writer”, but zhuzhed up with more lights. 05:50 Finch has a Nazar hanging from the rear-view mirror…

Notes for season 2 episode 7, “Critical“ 1:30 Leon is running a gold farming scam in 2012. I think gold farming’s cultural peak came with the suggestion that prisoners in China were being forced to grind in mmorpgs. I didn’t really hear much about gold faming until Axie Infinity tried to make gold farming the…

Notes for season 2 episode 6, “The High Road“ 01:00 Flashback Reese pulls out a Dell Latitude D610 (released in 2005, so an anachronism in 2004) with what I presume are cell data radio adaptors taped to the back of the screen. There was a time, probably prior to 2006, when you might see people…

Notes for season 2 episode 5, “Bury the Lede“ 06:30 It’s Clarke Peters from The Wire, which means this character is going to be more interesting than initially suggested. 08:54 Add littlenewyorkchildrensfund.com to the Warners domain collection. 11:22 Also add syncstoragesystems.com for the episode’s Dropbox-style service. 13:00 If the concern is that everyone’s on the lookout for…

Notes for season 2 episode 4, “Triggerman“ 06:14 Standard villain phone opsec: put ’em all in a box in a public bar. 16:37 It seems that Finch’s lockpick skills have improved since since last season? 17:18 So one of Finch’s data forensics techniques here is to grep a harddisk for  “Meet me”. Well, if it…

Notes for season 2 episode 3, “Masquerade“ They’ve updated the title sequence, but still retained the most annoying thing. “The government considers these people irrelevant. We don’t,” claims voiceover-Finch. However, in a series of flashbacks, we see that Finch alone decided that individual targets would be ignored – the government had no say in the…

Notes for season 2 episode 2, “Bad Code“ 01:54 The hacking app that Reese sends to Fusco’s phone has an icon of a retractable blade knife (boxcutter). 08:20 [Bojack voice] It’s Character Actress Margo Martindale 08:45 I’m from the UK and I’ve never played The Oregon Trail. But it feels like everyone is now aware of it…

Notes for season 2 episode 1, “The Contingency” 07:32 “He’s got a fancy car with an anti-theft tracker which I took the liberty of activating.” More casual abuse of police access, but this pays off later when you see the car being towed. 11:45 If the giant webcam perched on the laptop seems a slightly…