Drone Commlinks?, You have HOW many hackers with you? Options

[The Jopp]

Ok, i was tooling around with a small idea and started reading a bit more about drones, and it says on page 240 SR4 that a rigger interface gives non-drones (Ok, it says vehicles but lets be imaginative runners) a pilot program - this basically means that you can put a rigger interface on a toaster as long as you pay the cost for the interface.

Soo, perhaps my Hacker would need some help out there in the cyberspace but does not want to rely on agents to clutter his commlink and response? Rigger interface+Commlink+autosoft= Drone hackers - add a virtual person program to add some flavor personality to your drone commlink and you are ready to go.

You basically get a pilot program with a skill of 4 and autosofts at 4 and then you just give them the programs you usually use (if you got programs at rating 5 it will use 9D6 for skill tests - very good when you want to have some cyber combat assistance.

In a combat situation you could tell them to hack enemy commlinks while you, the hacker focus on staying alive.

For fun, add the same thing to your low-end commlink and add a pilot program there too, a virtual secretary to take care of incoming calls and other tasks, and even initiate defenses against hacking (even more secure than just using agents and IC)

The main drawback is the price tag.
Every commlink would be 2,5K more expensive and the programs would cost around 2K each and would have to be bought for each program, no skill group program.

On another note, can one buy autosofts with specialization, and what would that cost be?