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[–] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They've got nothing on that hacker at 127.0.0.1 that fucker has all my files!

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I never raised any eyebrows at IPs like these in movies and on TV. It's just internet equivalent of fictitious phone numbers always containing 555.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah by using out-of-bounds numbers they avoid accidentally listing legitimate values who might get upset or free advertising

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The attack was coming from ::1

    Or if that's too unbelievable, fe80:: has some scary implications while also not likely to ever be a real device.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    See? The ipv4 pool isn't exhausted yet. 3 quarters are still unassigned.:)

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Probably intentional. There are enough stupid people in the World who would try funky things if those IPs where real.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Could have just used class E addresses, at least then it would look intentional insead of brainless.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There are several IP address ranges reserved specifically for documentation and examples such as 192.0.2.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32. That's what they should have used.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (1 child)
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    Dark web super subnets. IPV10!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is beginner level IT-TV mishap.

    Wanna see something truly ridiculous? How about two girls hackers one keyboard?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    There's a great interview somewhere with the writers of one of these shows talking about how they knew this was shit and they had unofficial competitions with other shows to constantly one up each other on the stupidity.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    What tv show/movie is this from?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It’s from FUBAR. I think they took the show’s name as a general directive.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Thank you, kind stranger! I put that one on my “to watch” list a while ago, but never got around to it. Guessing from your comment I possibly dodged a bullet?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Those IP addresses were about the most believable thing in that episode. It’s occasionally amusing nonsense, requires about 1% concentration, and if you fall asleep in one episode and wake up in the next, you won’t need to reach for the remote.

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