{"id":192,"date":"2023-04-30T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/?p=192"},"modified":"2023-04-30T18:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T18:59:58","slug":"person-of-interest-s2e11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/log\/2023\/04\/person-of-interest-s2e11\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of Interest S2E11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes for season 2 episode 11, “2\u03c0R<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:20 We see the men suspected of being Reese receiving DNA swabs, and your first thought is probably: “They took his fingerprints in the pilot, surely identification would have happened by now?” (This will only be addressed in a later scene.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

02:30 Reese finds a regular-sized flip-phone in his cell. If it were up to me, Reese would instead be retrieving a tiny cellphone from his rectal cavity – an actual technique<\/a> for prison phone smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03:30 The absent teacher’s name is, I think, the show’s only direct reference to Jeremy Bentham, who developed the idea of the Panopticon – a prison where inmates would know they might be observed at any time, a widely used metaphor for electronic surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:07 Finch compares the constant texting of 2012’s teens to another planet. Fusco: “Their planet’s gonna be running ours in about ten years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:20 Good to see the NYPD secure email has support for RSS feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:04 “Throw all this stuff online and let me teach in my boxers.” Just wait seven years, my friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:05 Finch says that a score of 50% is statistically improbable, although that’s apparently being extrapolated from a single datapoint?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:15 Handwriting full “c” syntax on paper (as opposed to pseudo-code sketching) seems mad. I could have bought it as a plot point in the 80s – the poor computer genius without access at home – but by 2013 we were already in the era of cheap educational computing devices. The Raspberry Pi was released in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:25 Seems weird to have a 17 year old in 2012 defending Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick’s 1995 arrest occurred a few months after Caleb would have been born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:33 Caleb avoids the “tabs or spaces” question by using zero indentation in his code. Like a boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:35 Not only does Caleb have enough money from his drug dealing to buy a laptop, he’s also apparently conducting illegal business via the shared school computers. This is poor opsec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24:41 The 2010 transcripts are printed in OCR-A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26:30 235Tb compressed on to a 2012-era thumb drive? The show needs us to accept that\u00a0 Kolmogorov complexity works differently in its world, which actually becomes relevant in later episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27:50 Ok, Caleb also using shared computers for his online banking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

42:26 Donnelly uses the powers of the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 to further detain domestic suspects, which is a gross overreach, but gets absolutely no pushback.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

43:00 Wait, what happened the whole subplot about the drug dealers coming to, presumably, kill Caleb? Did he pay them off? It’s apparently not important enough to say. (Caleb turns up in a later season.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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