Origin of the Title:
- The White Rose (die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent resistance group that arose in Germany during the 1940s. The group consisted of students from the University of Munich and their professor, who staged an anonymous campaign using leaflets and graffiti advocating resistance to Hitler and the Third Reich. Many of the prominent members were executed in 1943, but their last leaflet was smuggled out of Germany and distributed by the Allies. Today, they are considered heroes in Germany.
- The extension: .m4v is an Apple audio/video format used to encode files for iTunes, and devices using iTunes.
Honey pot: An enticement used as a trap. In computing, it refers to a computer or network site that appears to be part of a network, but is actually isolated, and designed to trap hackers.
In the scene where Elliot (Rami Malek) looks through the CD case to find a blank CD, the CDs are labeled with the names of well known albums and songs, presumably serving as a mnemonic. They include "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" by Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV (the disc says 1971, the year the album came out.), Portishead's Dummy, Tool's Ænima, Green Day's Dookie, R.E.M..'s Automatic for the People, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, The Beatles' Pleased to Meet You and Revolver, an unknown The Doors CD, Rage Against the Machine's R.A.M., The Cure's Disintegration, Nirvana's In Utero, Soundgarden's Superunknown, Boston's Don't Look Back, Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Blur's self-titled album, Van Halen's 1984, Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik.