Dirty Hacker Tricks, Ya got any? Options

[DocTaotsu]

One of my good buddies wants to run a hacker in his next game so we got to talking about all the awful things a hacker could do to fuck with someone. Locking them out of their own commlink, hacking their cyberlimbs, hacking their commlink to go on speaker mode and exclaim "My name is <Insert Actual Name Here>! I'm a sccccaarrry shadowrunner! For a good time comm #234234 etc".

But he suggested we toss it to the wolves... that would mean you fellow dumpshockers.

So what are some terrible thing a hacker could do to someone he really doesn't like?

[Neraph]

Scorch him, I believe the term is. Unwired goes into it. You erase all his SIN information. Either that or change his SIN to a highly criminal one.

[Tiger Eyes]

Reprogram a RFID tag on him/her (or reprogram the commlink) to broadcast that the person is a sex offender (again see Unwired for that trick).

Plaster their face & ID on Lone Star's bounty hunter site as a wanted FTA.

Post on Shadowland that he/she has worked with Pachinko Mike.

Hire a technomancer to send a pack of machine sprites with the gremlin power into everything he/she touches/interacts with/goes near.

[Bearclaw]

I'm the hacker in our current group, and the coolest thing I've done to some one was, just before we busted in the door to a room with another team of runners, hack the street sams link, turn off the reflex trigger on her wired reflexes, and then dropped her flare compensators, essentially blinding her, with guns in her hands. Just about the time she was done spinning in circles emptying her pistols into the walls, we kicked in the doors and the other team just surrendered. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

[Heath Robinson]

Turn their 'link into a proxy, and post the connection information to Shadowsea. (Using the Proxy Trojan)
Insert their SIN into adult entertainment (and associated toy) sales databases.
Anonymously mail the contents of their commlink to everyone on their contact list.
Install Puppeteer on their 'link or CHN and get an Agent to randomly order drones to move at high speed towards them. (I call this the Yossarian)
Corrupt the SIN information on their 'link in a high class neighbourhood.
Do an intentionally crappy job of pirating their programs and post them to Shadowsea - any sensible Corp is going to put unique identifying information into their programs to identify piracy sources, they'll come down on them like a sack of bricks.
Install a spam-net Agent into their CHN.
Bandwidth costs, max them out.
Use their 'link as a makeshift jammer.
Humanis-made Slave virus, infect them with it.
Crack their copy-protection.
Insert the Resource Allocation Error bug into their Browse program.

[Ryu]

For wageslaves, write applications to all competitors. Offer to sell company secrets in those applications. Make fake holiday videos for your target, to be found by the spouse. Report the boss of your target for tax embezzlement, using the identity of your target. Top secret of course. Reset the stocking limits of the targets household nodes to "best of the best/ much of it". Be sure to create ordering patterns that imply alcoholism.

[kanislatrans]

lets see,

Disable someones spam filters at the mall and set comm to "auto-accept any incoming signal"

Change the language setting in their commlink to latin.

Leave a worm virus in someones drones. (thanks to who ever put that in UW. I love it.)

change there nano- tats from"Born to raise Hell!" to"Pinky love doll,ask me for a freebie" while in a Trog bar.

Switch opponents vehicle RFID tag to that of a stolen vehicle. with an ARO that says"Cop Killers do it with style!"

Rig an election at a Humanis Chapter and have them elected President...and shoot a press release to all the media.

Sweep Jeepus, I could go on forever...good thing I never run a hacker... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[DocTaotsu]

HonestlyI think it'd be worse to change someones language to spetheriel or some obscure language from papua new guinea (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Sir_Psycho]

Encrypt is my favourite. Hack in, encrypt the node and then crash it. When the mark reboots, he finds he can't access his comm, because the logon is encrypted. The best part is that his decrypt utility is there inside the commlink.

It's the matrix equivalent of locking some-one's keys in their car.


Another fun one is to use Track and Sniffer to compile yourself a schedule of everything the mark interacts with in AR or VR in an average day. Next you hack everything on the list; Vending machines, his Americar, his home maglock, the autodoor at work, the soykaf machine, the water cooler, his secretary's comm, everything. Load a data bomb on to every node and program it to only target his AID.


Another fun (and profitable) one is to steal their drones. Lots of people own drones, not many Steel Lynxes, but the occasional MCT Flyspy for their son, or maybe a minizeppelin. Maybe you want to steal their domestic drones. Just park out the front of their house, hack their Central Home Node and have their drones roll out the front door and into your van. Make sure you have a jammer or something else to mess with the RFIDs and you can get away with a few drones. Make them do their own household chores for once.

[DocTaotsu]

I can think of worse things that can be done with hacked households drones... but yes, stealing them certainly seems profitable.

[TheOOB]

Hack into someone's cyberlimb and force them to redline, quite painful and more difficult to identify as hacking then causing them to shoot themselves in the face.

[Neraph]

Hack into someone's cyberlimb and force them to redline, quite painful and more difficult to identify as hacking then causing them to shoot themselves in the face.

Just wow.

[orcsoul]

I've always had one question about hacking a persons cyber ... can't you turn off wireless on your cyber so that it broadcasts no signal? Only reason to turn it on would be for things like diagnostics and the like?

[TheOOB]

I've always had one question about hacking a persons cyber ... can't you turn off wireless on your cyber so that it broadcasts no signal? Only reason to turn it on would be for things like diagnostics and the like?

You can and most runners certainly should unless the ware requires wireless functionality. That said most people who are not runners leave it on because it's simply easier to be able to have your ware network with other devices. So unless you are facing opponents who have gotten some professional anti-hacker training, hacking ware is a viable option.

It should also be noted that even without a wireless link, you can hack ware through a DNI. If you can hack into their datajack(or possibly even a trode net) you have access to any device that has a DNI with the user.

[Starmage21]

You can and most runners certainly should unless the ware requires wireless functionality. That said most people who are not runners leave it on because it's simply easier to be able to have your ware network with other devices. So unless you are facing opponents who have gotten some professional anti-hacker training, hacking ware is a viable option.

It should also be noted that even without a wireless link, you can hack ware through a DNI. If you can hack into their datajack(or possibly even a trode net) you have access to any device that has a DNI with the user.

I prefer to find the ones operating their commlinks via trode nets or the like, hacking their links, and subscribing MY hot sim module so that I can feed them wierd psychotropic simsense (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Ravor]

Forget psychotropic IC, just feed them a BTL copy of Bubba the Love Troll does the seven Dwarves set on a loop of the rape scene.

[Chrysalis]

Have a self replicating agent run psychotropic IC and suggestion software to make every person who logs into the node put 100 nuyen into your personal "stop mastrubating save a kitten" account.

[ravensoracle]

Have a self replicating agent run psychotropic IC and suggestion software to make every person who logs into the node put 100 nuyen into your personal "stop mastrubating save a kitten" account.

Same idea but more for the psychopaths, Use the Suggestion software to convince Miracle Shooters that the game is real. Then arm then with a real Pred. Watch the Bloodbath ensue.

Great for an ammoral distraction. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Riley37]

Install some Black Hammer onto their comlink, programmed to target the user next time they go into simsense.

There are defenses against Black Hammer coming from some *other* node, but sucks to have it coming from your *own* node.

[Panzergeist]

Psychotropic blackout program that induces anti-authoritarian attitudes. Possibly making them join the Anarchist Black Cross if it gets enough hits.

Hack their commlink, send out terrorist threats with it.

Hack the commlink of somebody at a really rough bar, send messages to everyone else at the bar calling them a bunch of pussies.

Put a black-IC data bomb in a rigger's car, set to go off only when he goes over 120 kilometers per hour.

And my personal favorite...there is an example IC program in Unwired which makes me shiver with sadism. I forget the name, but it's something made by the Choson rings. It knocks you out with blackout, spoofs its way into your commlink, searches around for info on all of your friends and family, tracks them down, nails them with black hammer if possible, and comes back to hammer you in your sleep. Sounds like a terrible thing to encounter...at least, if you are using hot sim and your own commlink. If you are using cold sim and somebody else's commlink, with a friend to log you off or jack you out after it finishes searching your borrowed commlink, well, that's a different story... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Rasumichin]

HonestlyI think it'd be worse to change someones language to spetheriel or some obscure language from papua new guinea (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The key here is simply choosing a language using an alphabet you can't read.
Good luck trying to find the change language button if all text is in Arabic letters (which might also already be included in a lot of off-the-rack links).
For added fun, change the whole user interface setup to something the target has never used before so he has zero chance to find the way to the language setting menu from memory.
Don't forget to delete the instruction manual.


Other possible ideas :
-create embarassing fake accounts of the target on various social networks and messageboards.
Be sure to include the target's commcode and real-world address (of course, both private and at the office), but only after the fake account has accquired a sufficiently bad reputation on the network.
Bonus points if you can find friends and coworkers of the target on the network.
Be sure to invite all of them into your new-founded "i love hookjobs from underage trollstitutes" and "hail our new insect spirit masters!" newsgroups.
-make the commlink broadcast advertisments for selling snuff BTLs in a AAA neighborhood (for added fun, upload some actual snuff BTLs onto the link).
-use the target's commlink as a proxy for hacking the Zürich Orbital
-create AR overlays for traffic signs so that the target will end up on the wrong lane on the highway while the commlink constantly broadcasts text messages saying "i'm taking all of you down with me!" to every open account in the area

[Oenone]

Not so much a nasty trick in itself, but if you spike someones drink with a cocktail of hacker nanites and mesh tags you can do all the horrible things already listed to cyberware that the owner thinks has the wireless functionality disabled. Oh and you have the mesh tags boosting the range you can do it from and making it a whole lot less likely they'll be able to shoot you.

[Kev]

Switch opponents vehicle RFID tag to that of a stolen vehicle. with an ARO that says"Cop Killers do it with style!"

I laughed out loud. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) That was good, man.

[InfinityzeN]

You're all a bunch of mean, evil, vindictive bastards. I like'y! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Stahlseele]

Upload Stuff like Centaur on Ork Porn onto target Comlink and set it to boradcast.
Do something to stop the comlinks owner from deleting it. Maybe a nice little Data-Bomb or something like that.
if you're good with forgery, get some video material and forge the comlink owner into the vid