{"id":74,"date":"2023-01-22T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/?p=74"},"modified":"2023-01-22T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T14:36:46","slug":"person-of-interest-s1e08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexkey.co.uk\/lee\/log\/2023\/01\/person-of-interest-s1e08\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of Interest S1E08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes for season 1 episode 8<\/a>, “Foe”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:22 Jim Robinson! Alan Dale has been a prolific guest-star in movies and tv for years, but for many people he’ll always be their Aussie soap opera dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05:00 The 1970s cold case in previous episodes, and now cold war spying, give the show a legitimate reason to have characters handle “dossiers” – those folders of typewritten paper documents, paper-clipped photographs. A visual language familiar to movies, but in the 21st century, where the US blamed a lack of information sharing for lapses prior to September 11th, these intelligence files would (you assume) normally be printed copies of an electronic original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30 Finch gets information from the BND agent’s encrypted phone. “Every text is blocked except the [last] one they were reading”, which seems like a bit of an opsec fail for the BND?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:00 Looks like Reese got his iPhone 4 repaired. Or at least pulled a new one from the pile of burner phones Finch undoubtably has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:13 The subtitles read “[angrily speaking German]”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:32 “The website wasn’t even using an OpenSSH secure proxy. I cloned their login form in seconds.” This is plausible sounding nonsense, but does stem from a tech issue at the time. There was a period where wifi access was popular, but most websites hadn’t fully adopted https (or they implemented it on a login page, but then issued session-cookies that were sent over http connections). In late 2010 a Firefox plugin called Firesheep<\/a> was released that allowed users to hijack the web accounts of anyone on the same wifi network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(It’s the basis of the, now questionable, claims about “hackers at coffee shops” that you still hear in VPN adverts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This triggered the move to using https for all website accesses. Facebook, for example, announced the optional enablement of https<\/a> in January 2011. But the process of getting high-profile sites to switch would be years long. (Similarly, the replacement of telnet with ssh was also something that would still have been ongoing in 2011.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28:03 “The Stasi would have killed for this technology.” A former Stasi agent making… the same observation that every critic of modern surveillance has made at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

43:00 “He goes in the ground under a name that isn’t even his” – spoilers for the final episode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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