The genius of the episode is that it never dumbs down the tech. We watch Mendoza debug a memory leak in the codec’s entropy encoding module while simultaneously explaining how that same leak can be exploited to generate duplicate viewership pings. “A packet drop here,” he says, pointing to a line of C++ code, “is a $10,000 deposit there.”

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This is the "in" that the FBI has been waiting for.

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