Fake SINs, a proposed house rule for fixing them, This post was beautiful before my university's wireless ate it. Options

[Pyritefoolsgold]

Ok, I'm going to try to write this again without going mad. Damned Redirect page.

The proposed house rule: When your fake sin needs to be scanned, your SIN, not the scanner, rolls it's rating. your SIN needs only one success to go through, and the scanner will check it three times before telling you "please speak to customer service representative" a person who may choose to accept some other method of payment, or simply allow you to try again. A crit glitch has no immediate consequences, but your SIN is flagged for later review.

A person who wants to determine if a SIN is real or not does a logic + data search extended test with an interval of one hour and a threshold of twice the fake SIN's rating. every glitch erases one success from his total and a crit glitch makes him think he has "confirmed" that the SIN is real and no further checking is necessary. If he determines that the SIN is fake, he may choose to monitor it's activity, expose it as fake and have it deactivated, or approach it's possessor for a bribe.

There was a beautiful example here of Nighteyes' SIN getting compromised, but it was eaten too, and I don't feel like writing it yet again.