Krista learns that he really needs her help in constructing a case against Elliot though summoned on the pretense that Lenny has been diagnosed with cancer.

“In ideal cases, one would want link info from the defendant including an IP address, with all the precise date and time. This may simply be anonymized, which will make for tough prosecution. Nevertheless, most hackers will make a mistake eventually, which we’ve observed in a number of hacker busts.”

If audiences have learned one thing over the season’s ten episodes it’s that Elliot understands what he’s doing, or as Lenny says: “This child is great, Krista. He was routing through something called something or proxies outside in Estonia. He’s untraceable.”

Proxies are technologies used to hide someone’s true identity online. Bazzell described just how the TOR network and other “onion routers” function.

When using TOR within America, your link will probably seem to be coming from a different state,” he said. “The signs left behind, like an IP address, WOn’t be your own. It’ll be an anonymous IP address connected to the TOR network. TOR alone WOn’t protect you “100 percent”–as we saw in the very first episode–but it’s going to confuse nearly all the services which you use.”