| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Recon |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 1993 01:58:18 -0500 |
>Of course, there are a few difficulties. Actually hacking a sat to get
>realtime info would be a bit of a fragging troll. More viable would be
>hacking at someplace where relatively-recent data are archived and retrieving
>photographs of your target. Of course, your own mileage may vary.
Not to mention you the when&where aspect of the job. First, a satellite
needs to pass over the right area at the right time. Then, you ned to
know where those logs are stored. Finally, you need to be able to hack the
system. I rather doubt any hacker would know the flight path of every satellite,
or even enough to cover most of the world or even Seattle adequatley for all
times of day. Abd considering the security on some of those logs, even
knowing where to look may do little good.
But this begets the question of decking into a satellite directly with
a satellite uplink. True, it's meant for communications only and would likely
be ineffective in the bowels of the Sprawl, but could one conceivably hack
a satellite's on-board computer, possibly redirecting it to look elsewhere
(or not look)? I think in Matrix terms it would have a CPU and slave node,
with a couple of SPUs for flight control and other basic functions. Any takers?
>Not to mention reconnaissance is probably the reason people started
>summonning extra-planar entities (more politically-correct term than
>demons) in the first place.
Try "Spirit" for PCness. And please don't be PC. Faust was probably an Initiate
with an unfortunate encounter with a Fire Elemental, who may have been a Free
Spirit.
>Still, it does seem an area that most players are woefully inadequate in.
They CAN be taught :)
J Roberson
An empty bus travels fast
