Hacker Party Tricks, suggestions for hacks Options

[Makar]

I'm new to SR4 and only played SR3 for a couple months prior, so I'm pretty green. In our group I volunteered to play the hacker, since the veterans regarded it with a bit of disdain.

I was hoping that this board could help me brew up some hacking tricks that could be used in combat when the shells start flying. The book was pretty slim on examples of combat hacking, so what are some ideas?

I thought that getting into someone's smartlink to force their gun to drop its clip might be a nice trick, but I wasn't sure how to go about it.

Would I need to...

1) make a Scan check to locate their PAN
2) use Stealth to hide my access from their firewall
3) use Exploit to gain access
4) subscribe to the smartlink's node
4) use Command to tell the smartlink to drop the clip

Is this right? Any other suggestions of ways to affect combat with hacking?

[Drace]

Thats how I run it, but to do it in AR, would take too long, so you would have to go VR, which would leave you vulnerable.

Another trick is to hack the security cameras, to give the rest of the team a AR overlay of the enemy.

Or just stay far away in the getaway vehicle or a safe area, and do the hacking from there.

[Liper]

And this is why no self-respecting shadowrunner will have a anything in his body connected to his commlink.

[godboyimmaculate]

Without the commlink's protection, wouldn't it be even easier to hack a plain jane smartlink? (Device Rating would most likely be lower than a commlink's firewall)

[Valentinew]

You will be more support staff for the sammies during combat. In addition to the things listed above, you can try to route (or re-route) Lone Star calls, control local security systems, open doors, suppress alarms, contact DocWagon. You're also going to be invaluable in the legwork portion of most runs, looking up a lot of info, hacking systems, etc. If you're into that & have enough :nuyen: , you can also do a little rigging in SR4, which is more active-combat available.

Hope that helps a little. I used to look on deckers with disdain myself, but I'm giving one a shot with the new SR4 rules. We'll see how she works....

[BlackHat]

[Aku]

if you can alter his smartlink to make him miss, why not just give hims a BSoD?

[BlackHat]

[Azralon]

I think it's an Analyze+Edit agent that people like to use when falsifying live data (i.e.: making electronic illusions).

[MaxHunter]

True.

[ Spoiler ]

See the second version of Ghost in the Shell for nicec ideas [\Spoiler]

Cheers,

Max

[Ranneko]

Remember, going directly for someone's smartlink, without going through a commlink will require you to be within 3 metres of them.

[stevebugge]

If you can get control of any sort of automated or remotely controlled system it can possiibly be used to your advantage. Lights, Fire alarms, fire supression systems, sprinkler systems, traffic lights, air conditioners, cleaning or gardening drones, coffee makers, stereos, trideos, animate billboards, as well as enemy commlinks could all be hacked and manipulated to create a diversion, distraction, or even a makeshift weapon in some cases. Another trick to try might be to carry a handful of RFID tags designed to broadcast some sort of ghost image or distracting image to other AR users. I've forgotten the size and durability of a basic RFID tag, but I bet it could be thrown and if planned ahead possibly loaded in to a firearm based delivery system (I'm thinking street sweeper here)

[BlackHat]

[Azralon]

[Eyeless Blond]

Or throw a firecracker with about 20-30 of them taped on the outside. Info-frag grenades! :)

[Drace]

So in a way, it would be an advanced version of a chaff grenade used on targeting sytems and cameras. This would overload the enemies AR, causing them to have to go normal, losing all of their bonuses, as well as having to take the time to shut down their system (only a turn or so, but thats still a turn vulnerable) and have to deal with the sensory overload to boot.

How 'bout a grenade that instead of shooting shrapnel, emits a weak expolsion, sending heavily protected, altered RFID's, that your team has pre-blocked?

[Azralon]

[BlackHat]

[Drace]

You have the RFID tags programmed much like spam nowadays, just have it "invade" the visual screen, covering it up with pointless screens etc, hell if you really want to, have a bunch of images pop-up like ads or flashing lights (that would be really distracting. Maybe have the grenade act as a commlink w/an agent, and all the tags are subscribed.

[stevebugge]

When I posted the idea I wasn't thinking sensory overload so much as converting a normal area in to an instant "Spam Zone" with RFID's programmed to broadcast something distracting. The assumption was that they would be most useful in otherwise RFID sterile or tame environments (like offices) where the security guards probably are using normal AR as standard protocol because it is ordinarily advantageous to them for example it shows the employee ID badges, Tags Employee Cubes, etc. It would make them take an action to adjust their settings or suffer from some distraction modifiers.

[BlackHat]

[stevebugge]

They would, it's not a universally useful trick.

[hobgoblin]

and thats good. universally useful tricks have a bad habbit of getting overused...

rather then using a spread of rfids i would just use some electronics and a powerfull transmitter. pop the safety like a grenade and the system starts blasting out visual and audio spam. all this while changing transmission id's and other stuff to fool the firewalls spam filters...

the teams comlinks however would have all the id's the "grenade" uses allready blocked or some other way of iding and ignoring the signal.

mostly its a diffrent theme but the effect would be more or less the same...

[Liper]

You forget everything cyber is DNI interfaced by default now.

You don't have to Skinlink to have your smartgun talk with your smartgun eyeballs, or to talk with your gyro hand, or your imagelink, just mental note done.

You can have em wireless if you want though, but no reason to do so.

[BlackHat]