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[Yoan]

Let's say my Cybereyes, Cyberears and a few bits of interesting gear are slaved to my Commlink; during a botched infiltration, EvilSecHacker finds my hidden signals, breaks into my Commlink and simply crashes/reboots it: am I deaf & blind while it reboots? Or does the wireless capacityof my gear & cyberware automatically kick in? Or does it actually not matter, since it's purely diagnostic information being sent to the Master (Commlink), and not actual feedback? If it's the last case, I reckon EvilSecHacker should have ran Browse or Sniffer to find my 'ware, and crash/reboot it piecemeal?

[Blade]

Your cybereyes and cyberears probably still use the same path your natural eyes and ears used to send data to the brain (neural path wired inside your body), so you should be fine. You just won't be able to stream your vision/hearing to your teammates, or use any other similar trick that needs the commlink to route the signal.

[sunnyside]

Let's say my Cybereyes, Cyberears and a few bits of interesting gear are slaved to my Commlink; during a botched infiltration, EvilSecHacker finds my hidden signals, breaks into my Commlink and simply crashes/reboots it: am I deaf & blind while it reboots? Or does the wireless capacityof my gear & cyberware automatically kick in? Or does it actually not matter, since it's purely diagnostic information being sent to the Master (Commlink), and not actual feedback? If it's the last case, I reckon EvilSecHacker should have ran Browse or Sniffer to find my 'ware, and crash/reboot it piecemeal?

You know. This is the kind of drek Unwired should have answered clearly.

In my opinion if only your commlink was crashed the other bits should operate normally, but possibly communication between them would be disrupted (being able to see through the smartlinks camera for example).

However yes from your comlink they could crash your other pieces of ware or do all sorts of nasty things to them if they'd take the time. However unlike a comlink they don't think they'd have the option to kick you from the system due to your neural connects. But you can fight back and forth with commands.

[Wasabi]

Let's say my Cybereyes, Cyberears and a few bits of interesting gear are slaved to my Commlink; during a botched infiltration, EvilSecHacker finds my hidden signals, breaks into my Commlink and simply crashes/reboots it: am I deaf & blind while it reboots? Or does the wireless capacityof my gear & cyberware automatically kick in? Or does it actually not matter, since it's purely diagnostic information being sent to the Master (Commlink), and not actual feedback? If it's the last case, I reckon EvilSecHacker should have ran Browse or Sniffer to find my 'ware, and crash/reboot it piecemeal?

Subscription is not the same as dependency. If you slave all your cyberware then it is not behind a firewall of its own. This means someone hacking your slaved network can command the eyes and ears to turn off. If they reboot your commlink the slaved device isn't automatically told to turn off or reboot.... those are seperate commands that would have to be sent to those independant devices individually. You can then tell them to turn back on via DNI. (which all cyber now has IIRC). The intruder could also load a malicious agent program constantly monitoring it to turn it back off. As an admin on your own network the solution is to only subscribe cyberware when you must. Use contacts and glasses for sending feeds to your team and have the cyber OFF your PAN/TAN. Really, it IS that simple.

And you could always unsubscribe them so they were no longer slaved but I believe that requires a roll of some sort if they are already slaved.

Having cyberware hooked up to wireless is like having your doorbell unlock your house. It invites disaster. Don't have them slaved to a commlink at all. Subscribing a device requires being an admin on both so arguably the DNI would have to allow the subscription giving you a window long enough to transfer any captured video/audio footage to a commlink over an encrypted connection then break off the subscription.

[sunnyside]

There are an array of tricks to increase network security of your cyber.

But note that John Q. Public and even common sec guards likely go for the convenience of being able to send pictures to their friends of what they're looking at with their cybereyes or upload what they're listening to onto their website. So on and so forth.