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I have almost finished watching season 5 of american tv series “24″ (3 episodes left) and I have to admit that overall, it is a great show.
A perfect mix of good action, adrenaline, violence, and story twists that can keep anyone hooked on the screen for hours.
HOWEVER, I would beg the director to *please* invest some more cash and pay a good technical supervisor to review the huge amount of IT and technology bulls**t that happens there every 12 minutes or so.
I remember once a friend of mine studying medicine and surgery doing the same remarks for the tv series “E.R.”: nice show overall but full of technical crap.
I explained him at the time that I thought that was not so important because at the end of the day it was just fiction, but now I think I understand better what he meant.
And for the record:

• Government computers do not use proprietary operating systems featuring huge login screen with font “Arial 72 bold” to input username and password.
• You can’t decode a 128bit encrypted file in 12 minutes. “Chloe, can you decrypt it?” “Yes, will take me a few minutes” … lol, sure.
• Working in an IT tech department and shouting statements such as: “I think I can track him down, I can use his IP address!!!!!” only makes you look retarded. (it would have the same effect of someone working in a pizza shop and shouting “I think I can make it more tasty, I will use mozzarella!!!!!”)
• You can’t recover *any* data from an hard drive that is partially melted and burned down for being caught in an explosion.

and last, but not least:

• You can’t interface your palm computer to ANY terrorist laptop, cell phone, missile tracking machine, microwave oven, fruit blender, mp3 stereo player and expect it to work.

At least, not unless it is made by Apple ;)