The conceit of the current movie, UNTRACEABLE is that the more people
viewing a streaming website, the faster a victim dies, yet said website is
"untraceable".
I could see how a random website might be untraceable, but given that it's
streaming video, that's a ton of data. To quote NUMBERS, you don't need to
see the source of the water sprinkler in order to trace it from the path
of
the water drops. That much streaming video would seem like would be a
geyser
that could be tracked online back to the source. Not to mention the heavy
server load servicing all the people purportedly clicking into the
website,
you'd need a server farm to keep it going.
Compounding the problem is that it's INTERACTIVE, so the more watching the
faster the poison is injected. So not only do you have a ton of data
streaming out but also streaming in. Even if you had multiple webservers
streaming out the data, the inward data would have to be networked to one
source and thus create a trace.
And all this data is moving in REAL TIME--limiting the amount of
"bouncing"
of websites. Even if someone was using a server farm or zombies to
transmit
the signal, that still seems like a lot of data moving fast that would
stand
out against the rest of "normal" internet traffic.
Or is there some factor I'm overlooking, some new tech that makes it
conceivable? Or some element in the movie (that I haven't seen) that
explains this? Or am I just overthinking a thriller / action flick?
-- Ken from Chicago
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