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Message no. 1
From: Damion Milliken <u9467882@******.UOW.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Riggers vs Deckers
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 20:36:52 +0000
On the topic of the rigger/decker control of buildings:

I always thought that if a security system was set up for rigger control, then
it was _not_ matrix accessible, and _not_ matrix controllable. The same as a
car cannot be treated like a mini matrix for a decker. The whole setup is for
rigger control, and this excludes deckers doing anything beyond simple info
requests and the like, same as a decker cannot really control a rigged vehicle.
The security system is like the sensors around a vehicle, and the automatic
weapons tied into the riggers brain like those on a vehicle. A decker cannot
control these, as they require the rigger cyber hardware he does not have. If
a building has both rigger and matrix security then it will either be separate
(meaning that only the top notch corps can afford rigger security systems), or
the rigger control panel has the overiding commands, the same as if a decker
is controlling the autopilot of a vehicle by remote, and a rigger jacks in. The
rigger has control, and the decker can go and perform various perverted acts
with sheep for all the things he can do to change what the rigger commands.

PS sorry to whoever it was who I mailed this to personally, "It wasn't my
fault - my mailer did it". But I'm sure you can cope with two copies :-)
--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-Mail: u9467882@******.uow.edu.au

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