How to protect your devices from Hackers in 5th Edition, Or how I learned to worrying and love the GOD. Options

[Wired_SR_AEGIS]

Interestingly enough, in the real world of security engineering (See also the definitive book on the subject, Ross Anderson's Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems), the question is never if your system will be vulnerable/insecure, but the degree by which risk will exceed benefit. This is perhaps best illustrated by the following maxim: Secure Systems are unusable. Usable Systems are insecure.

Therefore, everything you personally use is, by definition, insecure.

It seems that in the world of Shadowrun 5th edition, everything is also, by definition, insecure. Which, when you think about it, is great: It keeps Shadowrunners employed.

So at the advice of another poster in another thread, I thought I'd start this up to discuss the best methods, and solicit the collective wisdom of Dumpshock, for securing your devices and your cyberware.

(It's also informative to consider that when the cost of a counter-measure exceeds the benefit that will be derived from it, risk is often accepted rather than mitigated. Remember that when someone suggests that the 100% solution to matrix-aware gear vulnerabilities is to always keep you gear off-line.)

-Wired_SR_AEGIS