Complete Rebuild of Decking Flavor & Rules (SR2) criticisms wanteds, In light of the decking derail in the 6th edition thread Options

[binarywraith]

Of course, this also depends on how likely it is that some poor slot will get a Predator retirement package. If getting cracked is a death sentence, they will do one of a few things:

a) change jobs

b) do everything in their power to secure it all, even if they have to rewrite all the things. Crazy? The alternative is death.

c) keep anything that matters the hell away from computers.

In today's age, this doesn't happen too much. Big companies get pwned all the time and it barely blips on the news cycle. Once in a while some dude somewhere gets fired or sued. Big deal.

This dynamic changes like flipping a switch when a high velocity hindbrain piercing is on the cards. Mortal terror is one hell of a motivation.

Air gaps are your friend. The only truly secure computer is one that is never connected to anything, including a monitor, but that's not particularly useful.

[Sengir]

Pet peeve: it doesn't harken back. "Harken" isn't a word.

It used to be a word at least, and since I was talking about the figurative stone age using old-fashioned words seemed appropriate (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Anyway, aside from that, your smaller corps would be able to have weaker (i.e. lower rated) defences.

The question was more about individual commlinks/pocket secretaries, which also should have some kind of security.


Anyway, since the writeup mentions P and NP I just remembered something: Otaku can solve NP problems. RA:S page 69, Puck and Scarecrow evaluate Otaku candidates. The test is "Given the following system of Boolean formulas [...] supply the single solution that satisfies all the equations. You have ten seconds", in other words the satisfiability problem.
So when assuming the "mind magic" quantum stuff exists, it might be capable of similar feats at least on a small level.

[Sendaz]

It used to be a word at least, and since I was talking about the figurative stone age using old-fashioned words seemed appropriate (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Maybe he was more about the misspelling as it is properly hearken. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)