Funny thing is that this indicates a very Unix like system, where everything is a "file" (or icon in the case of SR). And likely backed by a system-wide database rather then a folder tree.

The low level code of it all must be very wonky indeed. Tho i think one of the corporate books indicate that Fuchi had some kind of storage tech that was incompatible with existing computing stuff, and that only with the crash where they able to push it as a market leader (likely with the claim that it was crash virus resistant or something).

So in SR a "duck" may look like a duck, but put it under a microscope and the DNA appears to twist the other way or something. But who bothers to dive that deep unless they are work in a academic or corporate setting?

I suspect that any failed perception check would come up with some random work file for a unrelated user, and produce some kind of access error when a read is attempted. That way it may look legit by perhaps corrupted, or in some other way messed up. So at best it may be flagged for cleanup once the digital triage crew reports for duty (you do not want to be arbitrary deleting a possible managers work files without getting it approved by someone first).

Hell, a age old classic is to hide the naughty bits in the garbage file (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Edit: thinking about it a bit more makes me wonder if it is some kind of Plan9 FS. That when someone logs in they mount part of their local system into the folder tree of the remote system as part of the login process. Meh, i am thinking about it too much...

There is ongoing work about that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_File_System
There must be other similar projects, but I didn't work with the guys behind them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

100% irrelevance. I mentioned no crunch beyond "If the Analyze test fails." That implies that the hacker's Hacking + Stealth hits exceeded the node's <whatever, I really don't care at this hour> + Analyze.

TL;DR: The hacker won, that was the point of my post. I was talking from an assumption that whoever was doing the Analyzing scored fewer hits than whoever was doing the Stealthing.

I apologize, on my first read, it looked to me as though you were disagreeing with the opposed test part of tthe post you were responding to. It was my mistake.