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Notes for season 2 episode 6, “The High Road<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 attach phones\/antennas to laptops like this. At the time wifi antennas often weren’t built into the laptop chassis, and bluetooth was yet to be ubiquitous in laptops. Certainly, mobile tethering aka “Personal Hotspots”, would make this largely redundant after 2010. Still looks a bit… cyberpunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05:44 I’m sure people might be nostalgic for old-fashioned ticket reselling, rather than the 2023 version in which the ticket resale auction sites are owned by the same companies the sell the tickets in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:45 A home security camera that you can check on your smartphone was a novel enough concept in 2012. That’s the same year the company that would create the Ring video doorbell was founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24:21 Oh no, 15 years of careful life construction ruined by an appearance in a single Facebook photo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember someone I knew, who had moved to London in order to live as a gay woman. She had come from a country, and family, where this would have been beyond any acceptability. Her social media was carefully managed to hide this aspect of her life from the family members who followed her.  One day (over a decade ago) she was tagged in a photo kissing another woman, and this photo was automatically delivered to her mother. I can’t think about the devastating fallout of that incident without recalling a quote by Facebook’s CEO<\/a>, then still in his 20s: \u201cHaving two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

29:34 Looks like Warners forgot to register theridgeworth.com<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

30:46 “Building’s website boasts that all units are equipped with smart home technology. So yes, I’m sure there’s something we can exploit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33:50 The name of the company that makes the vulnerable TV is “Murakami”, which I imagine was intended as a fictional electronics company, but there is a Japanese corporation of that name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

36:45 This a newly purchased safe, and it was cracked by someone we presume hasn’t attempted to crack a safe in 15 years? Don’t the safe companies iterate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

40:41 It’s only onscreen for a second, but we understand from seeing an “ankle tag” electronic monitor, that Graham Wyler is geo-fenced to the boundaries of his suburban home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

42:52 Despite having access to pre-release cell phone models, 2006-flashback Finch is shown rocking a Nokia 1260 from April 2002 (or possibly a Nokia 1220 from 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n