| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Couple of things... |
| Date: | Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:09:41 -0800 |
>2) Mark N.:
>
>Are you planning on unleashing that frame around Shadowland? If it is
>in their domain, I suggest you have the frame fail due the the local
>admin nuking its arse.
It's unleased on the Matrix. Calling it a smartframe may be too simple: it's
acutally a collection of smartframes collaborating with each other and a
group of human supervisors.
>There is a reason that people don't mess with Shadowland, and that is
>one of them. They don't take rogue frames hanging around lightly. At
>least in my humble opinion.
Part of Cthulu will indeed be investigating Shadowland, but the overall
scope will be much greater. The thing isn't going to make a pest of itself,
and the sysadmins will probably notice that something was poking around, but
if "good" deckers can edit their timestamps on a quasi-regular basis then I'd
say that the esteemed sysadmins aren't going to be able to rebuff this thing
out of hand.
>I believe a while back there was a discussion about what S-land would
>accept and reject from its decker clientel. Leaving frames lurking
>about to jump local users (either to trace or to do something worse)
>was not one of the tolerated activities.
Well, it doesn't have to hang around Shadowland to cause trouble for people...
remember, "the net is vast and infinite", and Shadowland often serves at best
as a routing nexus.
For example, I think it would be reasonable for a large, determined force to
discover that a message had just been sent to Haze, though perhaps not what
that message (the one from Farmer) contained or who sent it.
By the way, for the people involved with the Haze plot, what information will
a determined search reveal about the place where Haze made his last "public"
posts from? I'm talking about normal surveillance cams, trafficams, billing
records, proprietor, customer registers, the works.
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Grad, VLSI http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
