From:	neon@******.backbone.olemiss.edu (Mike Broadwater)
Subject:	Re: the stranger will be missed
Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:57:24 -0600

>why is fast-jack the best in SR? who said he was? how long
Gee, considering that the people at the Nexus, the people who spawned the
real shadowland, the place where all info goes, and the place where the
otaku were started, seeing as how the people in charge there, the people who
no one messes with, don't mess with Fastjack (read Denver) along with all
the other stuff that is said about him in the books (stuff that's actually
canon rather than BS made up on this board) looking at all that, I guess I
just presumed that he was the best. Do you know another _canon_ decker that
is better than Fastjack? Are you saying that you've got a decker better
than Fastjack? That's arrogant.

>so my guess is that changin' your T/D
>isn't a great secret, but it's just tedious and a little dificult to do.

So what you're saying is that any idiot with any amount of patience can
change their T/D? I guess I'll just have my street sam do that since he
knows some deckers who can get the right warez. Thats not how it works.
Changing your t/d is hard because the systems that you have to crack to do
it are tough, other wise every decker would do it, and not just the few that
you see in the books. My god, Captain Chaos is one of the people in charge
of SLand, and he's got a valid t/d stamp, and if anyone could change it,
you'd think he could.

As a note, SR computer security is nothing like what it was today. It's
much tougher. With more connectivity, corps are going to toughen their
security, and after seeing what someone could to on an ASIST terminal when
the virus was wipped out, they're going to up it even more.

Mike Broadwater
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