| From: | shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam) |
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| Subject: | Re: CHECK THIS OUT EVERYONE! (fwd) |
| Date: | Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:23:33 GMT |
(Mark L. Neidengard) writes:
> Well, it may not look like it, but I actually prefer the quiet, subtle
> approach when possible. It's just that response scaled to threat has been
> jumping off the scale as of late. =) Let's see.
>
> -Start from the Matrix angle: lots of juicy (and dangerous) computers for
> deckers to play around in, which only lets them find what Aztlan was careless
> enough not to air-gap (still, that's a lot better than nothing). Heck, if
> we wanted to be cool we could let the deckers involved stumble onto something
> else big (but unrelated) which Aztlan _really_ doesn't want them to know.
> It doesn't even have to be obvious. =)
Matrix isn't my strong suit. Volunteers for someone who is good at running
this sort of thing? Mark's absolutely right, and it's a great opening for
anyone who wants to sneak a leader for a plot of their own in.
> -Civic-minded ("Shocked! Shocked that one of our competitors would stoop so
> low!") corporate aid. I have a character or two with enough leverage to get
> some time on their "communications" sattelites for some surveillance.
Plus
> other random goodies that might come in handy (such as data processing
> time or other exotica).
Already getting this from Ryaka at least, and there would probably be others.
Discreetly fragging over a competitor... Low risk, depresses a rival's
margin at little cost.
> - The personell revolution. Get some stoolies out there pounding the streets
> to try to track the pushers back to their suppliers and see if some of them
> can be fingered directly. An incriminating photograph here, a strategically
> placed temporary girl at a frequented call-girl service there, and all sorts
> of things can happen.
Yep: all of them good ideas, but not what Lynch has resources for.
> - The maintence sqad approach: depending on how tight security actually is at
> the Manchu sight, it might be possible to insinuate someone onto the
> janitorial crew. "Oh, looks like you've got _phone_ trouble! Let me go to
> the _junction_box_ and fix it so you can get _back_to_work_!"
This is a personal favourite, actually: this, filling the vending machines
and the cleaning crew, are the perennial weak spots. Depends how closed a site
it is, but even closed sites need food deliveries.
> - The high-tech angle: all sorts of weird bugs can be slipped into the den of
> the unsuspecting by foreign adversaries. Imagine a _small_ self-propelled
> camera trailing a length of fiber-optic cable that crawls through the air
> ducts, with a transmitter on the other end to link to the outside world. You
> can even get audio if you're careful. And other similarly weird stuff.
Stylish. We did tracking signals that looked like small spiders and crawled
inside the seams of clothing, ourselves.
>Sound in the ballpark? I think I'll get started on some of the corporate stuff
>with Alex; perhaps we can get some fixer or other marshalling some runners for
>the street-pounding side?
Excellent stuff and most welcome. Lynch wouldn't think about most of this
except in terms of a raid: he's good at what he does, but he doesn't do
well at coming up with subtle ideas by himself :) (neither do I, really,
which is part of it...)
--
Paul J. Adam
