Shot in the Dark

24 Scenes I’d Like To See

SCENE:  In CTU.  The heat is on.  Clicking, beeping, whirring all about; barely-controlled pandaemonium reigns. 

BAUER:  “Chloe, I need those grid maps overlaid with the week-old satellite photoes and the differentials called out, and I need ’em now…

CHLOE (irritably):  “Back off!  I’m running  a back-streamed IP subnetwork mask through the HTU turborouter with a full set of up-ticked cryo-semantic filter to crossmatch with Division, LAPD and Homeland Security databases!”

Noises off:  Stop.  Silence.  Everyone looks at O’Brien.

BAUER:  “What on earth are you talking about?”

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2 responses to “24 Scenes I’d Like To See”

  1. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    LOL!!

    You get a gold star for inventive creativity of the absurd, Mitch.

  2. Bill Haverberg Avatar
    Bill Haverberg

    OK, not a network engineer here, but if she’s sending a subnetwork mask it’s very likely mapped to the private in-house network address range (typically 192.168.x.x for class C private address space); and since it’s a reserved address block for private networks any decent firewall would block it as an invalid address – assuming the outgoing firewall even allows it through (which it shouldn’t).

    I guess its a more elegant way of saying “I’m pinging homeland security with a spoofed IP address”.

    By the way, I caught her on Letterman by accident. Totally vapid train wreck, it was one of those scenes where it was so gawdawefully back I couldn’t even press press the TIVO remote, my fingers were frozen in place.

    (My salute to the 93rd congress and increasingly the 94th congress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLh9rkvjac [listen to the lyrics])

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