I once watched some police procedural show (don’t remember which copaganda it was exactly) where they were trying to track someone’s location online. Couldn’t stop laughing when they showed an IPv4 address starting with 624.
Mind you, that’s for the same reason all American phone numbers in shows have a 555 prefix – showing a real address could lead to liability if e.g. someone tries to launch an attack on that address they saw on TV.
Unlike phone numbering schemes, the IPv4 address space has no well-known area reserved for fictitious addresses. Sure, you could use something like 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, or 203.0.113.0/24 (test networks for use in documentation), but those aren’t well-known outside of certain circles.
So they just go with completely invalid addresses because that’s easy.
Just use 127.0.0.1 as the address and let hackers try to attack it.
I’m in
He’s too good, I can’t trace his ip!
They should’ve traced his ipv6, while 624::/16 isn’t currently allocated, it is at least usable if we need it.
Well, well, well.
If we go outside of dottted decimal notation of IPv4, we can have addresses starting with 624. They can also be in decimal, octal, and hexadecimal.
Oh, and IPv4 also supports shortening from middle right in dotted decimal. For example, 127.0.0.1 is too long, often you may be able to use 127.1.
Or you can go to Cloudflare’s https://1.1/
Yeah most hacking scenes are ridiculous. Shows like mr.robot are more realistic.
The problem is that now they are outdated as fuck
I left a story if almost exactly this. Had to update a six person halo shooter arcade game. It runs on Linux. Took a bunch of trouble shooting to 1 get it to update over Internet, & 2 give up and just use a flash drive. But we had opened by then and a bunch of people gathered around whispering “yo he’s hacking like in the movies!”. I was using a Bluetooth keyboard made to be used by two thumbs…
I vaguely remember a movie or show that was compiling something with cmake which has some pretty clean output.
I rewatched Stranger Things season 4, which takes place in 1986, and there’s a scene where code flashes on the screen while they’re “hacking”. It shows:
- Turbo C++ - not invented until 1990
- HTML - 1993
- HTTPS - 1994 (it’s called htsps on the screen)
- PHP - 1995
- CSS - 1996
- Iframe - 1997
- C# - 2000
- .NET Framework - 2002
- CoffeeScript - 2009
- Flexbox - 2009
Amateur… They should have just typed
TREEand hit enter like the professionalsLiterally unwatchable
I seem to remember reading that what Trinity did in the opening scenes of The Matrix before the police busted in was actually doing a real exploit. So it got done properly at least once!
echo Im in“I’m in.”
Normies: “shut up, he is doing magic stuff”
