House rules re wireless bonuses, What are your groups doing? Options

[Dolanar]

its also 1 box less on the condition monitor, meaning its even easier to brick your commlink.

Personally if I were a decker, & I had even a decent skill with it & I knew the general populace had at best a DR3 commlink, I'd be collecting personal information like crazt, creating proxies & starting dozens of blackmail scams, stealing money directly is easier to be tracked, but when they give you their money willingly to avoid their secrets getting out...harder to track.

edit: the DR5 has a 10 condition Monitor, & 10 dice to defend maximum, the lower you go the less resistance any decker has to steal all your info.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

its also 1 box less on the condition monitor, meaning its even easier to brick your commlink.

Personally if I were a decker, & I had even a decent skill with it & I knew the general populace had at best a DR3 commlink, I'd be collecting personal information like crazt, creating proxies & starting dozens of blackmail scams, stealing money directly is easier to be tracked, but when they give you their money willingly to avoid their secrets getting out...harder to track.

edit: the DR5 has a 10 condition Monitor, & 10 dice to defend maximum, the lower you go the less resistance any decker has to steal all your info.

It has 11 Boxes... You round up, unless that has also changed.

Also... The Common man has nothing of value to the Shadowrunner, so, who cares? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Sendaz]

its also 1 box less on the condition monitor, meaning its even easier to brick your commlink.

Personally if I were a decker, & I had even a decent skill with it & I knew the general populace had at best a DR3 commlink, I'd be collecting personal information like crazt, creating proxies & starting dozens of blackmail scams, stealing money directly is easier to be tracked, but when they give you their money willingly to avoid their secrets getting out...harder to track.

edit: the DR5 has a 10 condition Monitor, & 10 dice to defend maximum, the lower you go the less resistance any decker has to steal all your info.

It can be a good way to finance yourself, but best to rotate areas as this sort of activity is what GOD looks for to keep the average wageslave safe. The episode on NCIS which started outwith them picking up a girl who was scanning peoples cards with a scanner as she walked through the crowds comes to mind.

Also, best not let too many people know you do this as then they will never know if you are gathering bits on them for down the road. A proactive solution they may take is remove the threat, namely you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Dolanar]

I never pay attention to round up or down, though that makes getting the DR7 commlink even more important for me then, making me have a 12 condition monitor in the matrix then

[Surukai]

It is that easy to day. Sit outside with a 3G/4G wireless internet stick and a Wi-Fi AP named after something common (Airport, starbucks, whatever) and just log all traffic. You get credit card, facebook logins and stuff like that en masse. It is common today and it is easy today. People "earn" their living with this _today_. Of course plenty will do so in SHadowrun, but that is what GOD is for, they crack down on this.

There has been a few known cases of this kind of on the fly information stealing hacking in tiny Sweden just a year ago. And still most people aren't paranoid at all, they go "wirless bonus on" with everything, their Rating 1 Internet Explorer security and their rating 1-2 passwords reused on all sites... When you think about it is really scary!