From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Cybercrime treaty targets hackers [On Topic]
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:32:44 +0200

According to BillT@*********.com, on Wed, 25 Oct 2000 the word on the street was...

> When I read this I thought of the difference between a standard
> corporate cyberdeck, and a 'Decker' cyberdeck. There are specific
> tools and programs in the rules that ARE illegal in SR. I was
> wondering if anyone actually enforces these rules, or do you let your
> charachters go to Radio Shack, buy a deck, and start cracking
> Aztecnology.

Both :)

In theory, you _could_ deck into a very secure host with nothing but a
cheap, off-the-shelf cyberdeck. It's just that your TNs will be much higher
(because of the lack of memory for utilities to bring them down) and the
host and its IC will be able to hit you much more easily than with a custom
deck, but it _can_ be done.

As for the legal aspect, to buy illegal utilities in my game you have to go
to other deckers, fixers, or -- of course -- deckmeisters, not to a normal
store (although there would be stores run "by deckers for deckers" selling
them under the counter). And any character arrested while in possession of
such items will have that charge added to whatever other laws have been
broken, that lead to the arrest in the first place.

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