Subscription lists, Subscription is not secure enough Options

[The Jopp]

The Subscription List

Am I the only one scratching my head at this?

The Persona has a subscription list over devices that are allowed to establish communications with you, fine, that’s dandy, I’m happy now – except for a few odd things.

Why is the subscription list always a two-way communication. What if I only want to receive information from my SB Microskimmers imagelink? According to the RAW the Subscription list and the “You many configure your devices so that they only interact with another specific device” (SR4 page 212) are incompatible since the Persona is THE only subscription list as I read it.

At the same time I start to wonder about devices and drones, not to mention agents as they in turn need their own subscription list so that they know what devices THEY are allowing and are allowed to access.

It seems that each and every device CAN have their own subscription list and not just the persona.

For example.

PersonaCommlinkDrone, Car, Guncam etcTeam

Now, persona can only access the commlink but the commlink in turn can access several items. Since the persona has access through the commlink it can also access the gear.

I should also be able to forward my drone imagelink to the team in a ONE-WAY communication so that the team has an image from the drone but they cannot command the drone because that’s my characters job.