[Gllug] not so great hacker/tech movies

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:27:21PM +0100, Andy Farnsworth wrote:

> > CSI defintely has some of the worse IT. IP addresses like 
> > 1035.123.12.5221.
> >   
> I actually have to accept IP addresses like this.  However I would like 
> to see them standardize on an IP range that is unreachable, kinda like 
> the 555-XXXX telephone numbers Holywood use as there are no 555 numbers 
> in use in the USA (well, ok, 555-1212 which is like the 118 numbers 
> here).  Maybe even go with some IP address range like 256.x.x.x (yes, I 
> know it is invalid, but atleast it looks good to most people in the 
> world) or go a bit more obvious with 3xx.xxx.xxx.xxx which would again 
> be obvious to those in the know, but still look ok to the general public.

Why not something like 192.168.21.32 or 10.12.14.16
At least they are valid, non Internet routable, but at least valid.
Since they are ''private'' they don't belong to anyone and so you can't
sue for something or another.

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