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Notes for season 2 episode 3, “Masquerade<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> alone<\/em> decided that individual targets would be ignored – the government had no say in the matter. [shakes fist] Oooh, that government!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:15 Reese hides the Root research files on the computer screen by pulling on a nearby PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom<\/a>) camera control joystick (a Pelco KBD300A – basically the CCTV version of a NES Advantage). Not clear why that would work, but apparently it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

02:29 Finch has a process translating Portuguese language web pages into English. Google Translate was already available to the public in 2006 (as statistical machine translation<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

04:28 The box of Corwin’s things contains what I’d have assumed was a black pocket router \/ wifi repeater with a retractable network cable plugged into it, although Fusco identifies it as a “microchip reader”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:05 “She’s smart enough to keep her phone’s wifi and bluetooth turned off.” Back in 2012 I usually had wifi and Bluetooth switched off. Security concerns aside, they were a drain on battery if you weren’t actually using it. In mid-September 2017 there were articles advising people to switch off Bluetooth<\/a> in light of security findings<\/a>. Then, less than a week later, iOS 11 was released and changed the controls<\/a> such that the wifi and bluetooth toggles stopped turning off those features, instead just temporarily restricting them. And so they’ve mostly been on ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:07 Carter finds the RFID reader on the manufacturer’s website, add turndaletechnologies.com<\/code> to the Warner domain pool. “So where’s the chick?” asks the subtitle transcription, apparently unfamiliar with RFID chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:40 Reese beating up goons in the nightclub now feels a bit John Wick – but the first John Wick movie wouldn’t be released until 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27:32 Reese calls Finch from the only place in the city where you can get some air. It’s not indicated, but this is the High Line<\/a>, a disused elevated rail line converted into a park, first opened in 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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