From:	korishinzo@*****.com (Ice Heart)
Subject:	Hacking a Smartlink in SR4
Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:17:21 -0700 (PDT)

> > I'd have to go with absolutely not. Not only does it make a sml a
> > hindrance and useless, but it adds a ridiculous level of
> > complexity to a combat scenario. I'd never allow it.

> Well then you'd better disallow the entire wireless world. because
> that's exactly the sort of thing technomancers are for. :-(

I am going to get drawn in these SR4 debates one way or another, I
can tell already. So:

Why would the smartlink be vulnerable to hacking?! It is a
closed-loop, wired system. If the smartlink is vulnerable to
hacking, then riggers would have been doing it ever since Rigger 2
was released. You think wireless communications warfare is a facet
of SR4 only?

Sorry, but technomancers sound like a stupid invention. Why why why
does the matrix suddenly have to be treated like an Astral analogue?
Can my team's hacker allocate dice to "wireless defense" to protect
his friends from having hostile programs "grounded" through his PAN?!

Drek, wait until the debates start on cyber-FAB... little
nano-bacterial hybrids that can cling to the electromagnetic
disturbance caused by a passing hacker in the system. Ooooo... I
want a Rating 5 weapon foci... EMP-dagger. Wheeeee....

Among other things, SR4 tech seems to have been designed by people
with a very poor understanding of wireless networking. But, if
hackers can sieze control of, or shutdown, a sammie's chrome... then
"geek the mage!" just became a secondary cry to "geek the Geek!"...


======Korishinzo
--Frag... someone relieved themself in my cyber-Wheaties...

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