Named after an album by Finish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, R.U.D.Y. (short for R-U-Dead-Yet?) is a DoS tool used to execute slow-rate attacks

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Slow rate, Layer-7 DDoS attacks, also called “low and slow” attacks, attempt to open a relatively few connections to the targeted server or web site over a period of time, and leave the sessions open as long as possible.

Eventually, the number and length of open sessions exhaust the target’s resources, making it unavailable to legitimate traffic. Because low and slow attack traffic appears legitimate, these attacks often fly under the radar of traditional mitigation tools.

Another big red flag regarding Elliot’s reliability as a narrator. He’s prone to delusions and changes he personally makes to how he perceives reality end up being manifest in the entire world–making it clear that we are seeing his world and not necessarily reality.

From this moment onwards, every verbal reference to E Corp is instead to Evil Corp.

Highlighting again the fact that Elliot has problems distinguishing his own thoughts from reality.

In the episode, this is probably one of the most powerful early reminders of how unreliable Elliot is.

We just watched him give a passionate diatribe against society, using objects scattered across the room to make his point, only to learn it was all in his head.

It is also one of the reasons why the voice over fits Elliot perfectly since most of his more intimate thoughts are things he can’t say outloud: critiques of society, his findings from hackings of people, and observations he makes about people.

We get to see a side of him that even his therapist doesn’t get to see.

Not only is this never addressed again in dialogue during the season but we never see her smoke a cigarette either.

Given the attention to detail Sam Esmail puts when writing and in part directing the episodes, it’s hard to imagine there isn’t a reason for why this is inserted into the dialogue.

Gideon is played by Michel Gill.

In House of Cards, he played a similar role: an authority figure watching everything crumbling around him as President Garrett Walker.

In fact, going a step further there are more similarities. As President Walker, he was sabotaged by Frank Underwood, whom acted as Walker’s most loyal ally while sabotaging the administration–out of spite.

Elliot similarly serves as Gideon’s most capable employee but out of spite–angry at society itself–sets out to destroy Evil Corp, Allsafe’s biggest client and main source of business.

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It’s important to note that no one else on the train acknowledges Mr. Robot’s presence, even as he’s yelling across the train to Elliot.

This may be because he looks homeless and people generally try to avoid acknowledging the homeless but it also may be because Mr. Robot is not real, instead a hallucination of Elliot’s.

This would make Plato’s Boys one of the largest child pornography file sharing networks in existence.

Just this year, the largest one yet was discovered by Canadian police. It’s content amounted to 1.2 petabytes and is estimated to consist of 7,500 users across 100 countries.