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From: "David M Girardot (Girardot, David)" <GIRARDOT@********>
Subject: Deckers Multitasking
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 12:30:02 edt
Deckers are already multitasking! :) There's a Persona process running Bod,
Evasion, Masking, Sensors... there's another for each u-program activated ...
etc.

Now, someone begin a discussion on why Deckers seem unable to really
"infiltrate" machines ... let's face it, whenever a Decker makes a run people
know that at least someone was there. This makes no sense. Look, if you get
by an access with sleaze then your id in the matrix is nothing. So deckers
who get into the shadowlands this way shouldn't have any id at all! Now, if
you got by the access with deception, that means the system thinks you're
someone else. So if you get into the shadowlands that way your id should be
that of one of the legit users.

Sigh. Shadowrun's matrix system has very little to do with real world c/
hacking.

--David

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