I saw the movie Live Free of Die Hard recently. The film involves a heroic hacker Matthew Farrell who
gets into trouble due to his illicit hacking-for-hire. The movie is enjoyable, given that one expects it to
be a mindless action romp from the outset. It's always good to see the computer guy
cast as a powerful figure, albeit a rather neurotic one.
IP address
The nerd perspective is that our guy is initially logged
in from his home with an IP address of 172.16.55.103. In fact, that's a blackhole address along will all of 172.16.0.0 through to 172.31.0.0 (172.16/12)
according to RCF 1918, so it's the same as a 555-1212 phone number that is common in
"older" movies beack in the days when they still used the telephone (i.e. 172.16 like the more common 10.0.0.0 (10/8) and 192.168.0.0 (192.168/16) subnets).
Other people on the net have used screenshots to determine the IP used for an scp transaction has the address 202.218.154.52
and this is osaka-itkaikei.co.jp, Osaka IT Accounting Technical School.
