From:	GMPax@***.com GMPax@***.com
Subject:	Security Riggers [was: Note to Mongoose]
Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:59:22 EST

In a message dated 3/5/99 1:25:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RunnerPaul@*****.com writes:

> Finally, I'd like to point out that it's quite feasable to integrate
> different levels of security into even a single building. Matrix
> security can be used for overall building security. Higher levels of
> security would involve an off-line private host. Security riggers
> could be reserved for the highest levels of security, for the
> ultra-sensitive areas (such as an R&D wing) that a corporation doesn't
> trust to turn over to the automation of a matrix computer.

In fact, if I may add my own 0.02 nuyen to this discussion, you could even
have _parallel_ systems. Matrix security for the doorlocks, environmental
controls, and other systems ... do you really think that a rigger is going to
want toplay doorman tot he Mens Room on Floor 128? All day?

Some doors, ofc, might be wired to the _rigger_ instead: the major security
entrance to the R&D division, possibly the front doors (taken over after
"closing time" perhaps).

The rigger, OTOH, might control many (and in higher security areas, I _doubt_
all) of the cameras, possibly ride shotgun over the elevator system, and of
course, a horde of drones, using various local nets (say, something like the
"supersubscriber" option discussed in Rigger 2, for cranial decks using
ANOTHER, external, RC Deck as a "booster" station). Say, a decent-sized RC
Network per floor, broadcast and/or hardwired (depending on which system or
dron you are looking at at any one moment). Renraku Arcology: Shutdown talks
about Deus' drone network ... though any _human_ run net is likely to have
less "oomf" than thatof an AI, the feel it gives is pretty straight-on (after
all, it may be Deus conrolling it, and Deus may have beefed the whole system
up, but the foundation of it's RC network WAS the Arcology Building Network
for their Security Riggers!), IMHO.

My apologies if this message seems disjointed, BTW. Kinda my posting style, I
guess. :-)