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Voran
post Jul 21 2010, 11:10 PM
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I didn't want to derail the other SIN thread, so I'll pen my own.

Understandably, we focus alot on the runner aspect of SINs, why we need to create fake ones to 'stick it to the man' and breeze past locations. But then I started thinking, how do non-runners handle it.

Given how it happens nowadays, and the increase in...well..temptations...in the 2070s setting, how do high muckitymucks or even sorta-high-up-on-the food-chain types pull off the shenanigans of illicit behavior? Going to the strip club, hooking up with Candy and her friend Mindy, secret rendezvous at the loveshack?

Its a given that you have to have a commlink active in a Medium or higher rated zone, but if you're Mr. Corp VP and you don't want record of your visit to Mistress Naughties House of Pain, how do you do it? You can't go hidden, as you'll raise a flag. But I don't really see every badbadboy/girl running around with fake SINs either.

On one hand, I guess this is why corps probably offer their own in house 'entertainment' to those they feel deserve it, so at least records of naughtiness sorta stays 'in house'. But obviously there's a criminal empire that runs on smut and blackmail, so high up enough people still go off the reservation.

Paying with certified cred is easy, it'd be like using cash instead of your credit card at the stripclub/brothel, but given the focus on all-commlink all-the time, how do 'normals' pull off covert stuff? Is it just impossible by the rulesetting without them using their own hacker connections?

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- Voran   Shenanigans, "High Society" and SIN   Jul 21 2010, 11:10 PM
- - Doc Chase   Money money money money. Monaaaay. If a mucky-mu...   Jul 21 2010, 11:25 PM
- - Falanin   Or he hires some runners to extract his favorite b...   Jul 21 2010, 11:27 PM
- - Doc Chase   Would he even have to? With the resources at John...   Jul 21 2010, 11:28 PM
- - Falanin   Well, if he goes with independent talent, he doesn...   Jul 21 2010, 11:33 PM
- - Doc Chase   Well I suppose, but independent talent could do th...   Jul 21 2010, 11:35 PM
- - tagz   Well connected and with disposable income gets you...   Jul 21 2010, 11:40 PM
- - Karoline   I would imagine that, among other things, Mistress...   Jul 22 2010, 12:01 AM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (Karoline @ Jul 22 2010, 02:01 AM) ...   Jul 22 2010, 08:54 AM
|- - Inpu   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jul 22 2010, 10:54 AM)...   Jul 22 2010, 09:04 AM
|- - Mäx   QUOTE (Inpu @ Jul 22 2010, 11:04 AM) The ...   Jul 22 2010, 09:27 AM
|- - Inpu   QUOTE (Mäx @ Jul 22 2010, 11:27 AM) And t...   Jul 22 2010, 09:42 AM
|- - Mäx   QUOTE (Inpu @ Jul 22 2010, 11:42 AM) Heh,...   Jul 22 2010, 10:05 AM
|- - Voran   QUOTE (Inpu @ Jul 22 2010, 05:42 AM) Heh,...   Jul 22 2010, 11:39 AM
- - MortVent   don't forget legit banks allow thier clients t...   Jul 22 2010, 12:16 AM
- - Synner667   But anyone who wants to know what you've been ...   Jul 22 2010, 12:20 AM
|- - Karoline   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jul 21 2010, 08:20 PM)...   Jul 22 2010, 12:34 AM
||- - Synner667   QUOTE (Karoline @ Jul 22 2010, 01:34 AM) ...   Jul 22 2010, 12:58 AM
||- - tagz   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jul 22 2010, 01:58 AM)...   Jul 22 2010, 01:16 AM
||- - Karoline   QUOTE (tagz @ Jul 21 2010, 09:16 PM) And ...   Jul 22 2010, 01:40 AM
||- - tagz   QUOTE (Karoline @ Jul 22 2010, 02:40 AM) ...   Jul 22 2010, 01:45 AM
|- - tagz   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jul 22 2010, 12:20 AM)...   Jul 22 2010, 12:38 AM
||- - Synner667   QUOTE (tagz @ Jul 22 2010, 01:38 AM) Yeah...   Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM
||- - tagz   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jul 22 2010, 02:10 AM)...   Jul 22 2010, 01:44 AM
|- - KCKitsune   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jul 21 2010, 07:20 PM)...   Jul 22 2010, 05:03 AM
- - KnightRunner   Hey leave Candy and Mindy out of it. I can assure ...   Jul 22 2010, 12:23 AM
- - Snow_Fox   My guess is that they have fake commlinks/SIN...   Jul 22 2010, 12:54 AM
- - Karoline   I'm sorry, but how many public CCTV cameras ha...   Jul 22 2010, 01:09 AM
|- - Synner667   QUOTE (Karoline @ Jul 22 2010, 02:09 AM) ...   Jul 22 2010, 01:40 AM
|- - Karoline   QUOTE Actually, I live in the UK - known to have a...   Jul 22 2010, 01:52 AM
- - sabs   Shadowrun holds up just fine as a Black Trenchcoat...   Jul 22 2010, 01:17 AM
- - Whipstitch   Gotta think signal to noise ratio. Office theft is...   Jul 22 2010, 01:58 AM
|- - Karoline   QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Jul 21 2010, 09:58 PM...   Jul 22 2010, 02:16 AM
|- - Voran   QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Jul 21 2010, 09:58 PM...   Jul 22 2010, 09:26 AM
- - sabs   Why would AAA corporations have access to CCTV fe...   Jul 22 2010, 01:58 AM
- - DireRadiant   Just because there is one instance of something po...   Jul 22 2010, 04:11 AM
|- - sabs   QUOTE (DireRadiant @ Jul 22 2010, 04:11 A...   Jul 22 2010, 04:19 AM
|- - Whipstitch   QUOTE (sabs @ Jul 21 2010, 11:19 PM) But ...   Jul 22 2010, 05:48 AM
|- - DireRadiant   QUOTE (sabs @ Jul 21 2010, 11:19 PM) exce...   Jul 22 2010, 02:39 PM
- - sabs   I think you're just not thinking 'pro...   Jul 22 2010, 04:14 AM
|- - Mäx   QUOTE (sabs @ Jul 22 2010, 06:14 AM) I th...   Jul 22 2010, 06:16 AM
- - Trevalier   In addition to data balkanization and SNR issues, ...   Jul 22 2010, 05:48 AM
- - KCKitsune   Also there is that wonderful piece of gear in Arse...   Jul 22 2010, 06:23 AM
|- - Caelwyn   QUOTE (KCKitsune @ Jul 22 2010, 04:23 PM)...   Jul 22 2010, 06:56 AM
- - Inpu   But that's the point, isn't it? That the d...   Jul 22 2010, 08:05 AM
- - sabs   You bring up valid points about authorities just f...   Jul 22 2010, 01:08 PM
|- - Karoline   Oh, this reminds me, I just recently saw something...   Jul 22 2010, 01:28 PM
- - Inpu   A good example for Seattle is the ability to duck ...   Jul 22 2010, 01:13 PM
- - Mäx   QUOTE (sabs @ Jul 22 2010, 03:08 PM) Ther...   Jul 22 2010, 01:56 PM
- - sabs   Well the problem with that is two fold: Cross Jur...   Jul 22 2010, 02:26 PM
- - Doc Chase   Unless Toys 'n Stuff has extraterritoriality. ...   Jul 22 2010, 02:29 PM
|- - Voran   QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jul 22 2010, 09:29 AM)...   Jul 22 2010, 05:59 PM
|- - Doc Chase   QUOTE (Voran @ Jul 22 2010, 05:59 PM) Or ...   Jul 22 2010, 06:06 PM
- - sabs   Yes, then their only option is to ask nicely. The...   Jul 22 2010, 02:35 PM
- - Mäx   QUOTE (sabs @ Jul 22 2010, 04:26 PM) Or i...   Jul 22 2010, 02:37 PM
|- - sabs   QUOTE (Mäx @ Jul 22 2010, 02:37 PM) Now t...   Jul 22 2010, 03:00 PM
- - Inpu   Of course they'd have reason to delete or secr...   Jul 22 2010, 02:39 PM
- - sabs   I agree with you DireRadiant. But in that example...   Jul 22 2010, 02:56 PM
- - hobgoblin   i recall a little something from a movie about a i...   Jul 23 2010, 01:01 AM


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