Fun with hacking, Random Brainstorming Options

[maneius]

Since the comlink wirelessly controls all the devices a character is carrying (give or take), what can you think of to do when hacking people's cyber/whatever?

My 2 :nuyen:: Since there is a reference to being able to listen to your favorite music as it would sound at 10000 decibels from 20km away (or something like that), then, if you can overide the safeties, you could rig it up to play it as it would sound at 10000 decibels at 2mm from their eardrum. Now that's a headache.

[calypso]

[Azralon]

Sure, Cal, but wouldn't that be less of an attack and more of a favor? ;)

Hrm, unless we're talking about the wrong kind of porn. Yes. Yes, that would be Bad.

On a related note, change their personal profile to include something like:

"Bisexual/White/Male/Human seeking Any/Any/Any/Troll who likes it rough. I prefer minimal foreplay and minimal prior social interaction. Bring your own toys. My physical address is..."

[Lord Ben]

Well, I think the 10k decibels from a few miles away is from simsense. So you COULD reproduce the sounds of 10k decibels up close technically. However unless you're Hot-Simed it wouldn't do anything to you because of the safety features.

[Backgammon]

No, it wouldn't burst your eardrums and hurt you, but it would be DAMN distracting to have a song playing at a very loud volume. Refer to Commlink distraction penalties... that's definatly a -2 or -3 penalty. Similarly, you can add tons of porn images playing in loop all over the victim's vision. Sensorial overload is the simplest way to screw up someone bad.

Of course, the solution is to unplug your commlink. But then that itself is a victory since it deprives the target of the bonuees he might have going for him, such as GPS spot on your team or an overlayed map.

Also, in case you have to get rid of the target's advantages pronto (such as trying to hid from someone that has a GPS location on you), you can simply crash his OS.

Hey, here's another one... put somesort of Black ICE worm in his commlink... everytime he boots it, it tries to kill him! He'll have to get a new one (or some annoying reprogramming anyway)

[Azralon]

I'd like to swap a few select words in the dictionary of a linguasoft program.

Think "My hovercraft is full of eels," but replace "honored oyabun" with your randomized profanities of choice.

[Nikoli]

That's evil

[Azralon]

[Nikoli]

but you would really need contextually appropriate insults and profanities to make it really bad.

[Azralon]

Hrm, so an Agent running in the background then?

[Nikoli]

with analyze, stealth, and edit

[apollo124]

How about hacking into someones Predator 4 and making it shoot while still tucked into its' holster (or wherever you tucked it)? Or hacking into someones cybereyes and turning them off? Or cyberlegs which start doing the 2-step everytime your cyberears hear country music? Or like someone else said about changing the linguasoft, how about changing your outgoing message to read "SINless wanted criminal here".

[Azralon]

I'd hope that the cyberdoc would keep my internals on a closed-circuit network. If not, I'm asking for it.

... In both senses of the phrase.

[Azralon]

A disturbing throught I just had:

Hackers can remotely steal control over nearby vehicles and ram pedestrians for a hell of a lot of damage.

Screw summoned spirits as the scariest "pets" in the game; a 10k nuyen "Honda Spirit" subcompact traveling at 61 meters per turn can throw down 16P against half of the target's Impact armor. A Westwind at full speed is 30P (but it'd be a damn shame to waste the car).

[Rifleman]

[Azralon]

Whew. Okay, glad to hear it before one of my players gets a lightbulb over their heads.

Still, a (properly prepared) 10k nuyen ground missile seems tempting, particularly with an explosive payload just in case you wanted collateral damage.

[Chandon]

Rifleman:

Cars IRL have wireless keys / starters / etc. This is obviously a feature that normal users couldn't do without that would be implemented through a comlink. I'd expect that such a car would be operating in hidden mode (waiting for a signal from the owner), so you'd need to locate it. Additionally, it would only have an admin login.

If you're still afraid of cars randomly starting, say that cars have a safety device that prevents remote control unless it's disabled - something that's really simple but requires popping the hood and flipping a physical switch.

[Rifleman]

[nick012000]

So the hacker spoofs his frequency to look like one the car recognizes.

[Ancient History]

Let's review: at 150 dB, your hearing becomes damaged. At 180 dB, your sensitive internal organs would rupture, especially in a conductive fluid like water. You would not hear the music at 200dB because the sound wave would kill you instantly.

[Rifleman]

[hobgoblin]

a diffrent way to get someones phonebook from their mobile these days are via bluetooth. sure you would have to be within range and would have to fool the phone into do a sync. but you dont have to physicaly plug into it.

[Eyeless Blond]

[Chandon]

Rifleman: Although it would work that way if anyone involved were security concious, I don't think that's the case. I'm pretty sure the ignition and the radio are using the same computer, and that the radio needs to be connected to the matrix to get new songs.

[Eyeless Blond]

The point he's trying to make is that the commands just wouldn't be there at all without a rigger box. It'd be like telling your oven to bake you a pie; sure the oven can turn on and off, but telling it to do something more complicated just doesn't work.