The book goes to the trouble to spell out the differences between Basic Passcodes, Linked Passcodes, and Passkeys, in some detail on p.215.

However, the sections where the book spells out how you use your hacker tools due to not having proper authorization, such as breaking in, spoofing commands to devices, decrypting files, defusing databombs, and so on, never mention the different levels of passcodes, and don't specify that the process is any different depending on the type of passcoding system used.

What gives?

Don't tell me I've stumped the Dump. Surely someone at least has an opinion on this.

OK:

A Passcode can be stolen by intercepting a transmission that has a passcode in it and decrypting it.

A Linked Passcode could be gained the same way, except that you also need to fake a retinal print or something.

A Passkey requires intercepting both the door's query and the response and decrypting both.

All of them can be bypassed by opening up the box and whipping out your own Hardware skill.

-Frank

bingo, it just provides a GM with info about how to set the system up so that even when the teams hacker is out of action, they can still break in

for a hacker its a "simple" matter of tricking the secuirty system into unlocking that door...

Would it be possible to tell, say via the analyze program, if someone's logged in from an account that uses a linked passcode/passkey, vs. someone logged in to a backdoor account that's not linked to biometric data or a specific piece of hardware because it was generated by the exploit program via a "probing the target" attack?

well if the logs are detailed enough it would show a door opening but no passkey or code used for that same time.

now, most likely uses of exploit will show up as strange crashes of subsystems and similar. so if a similar thing shows up in the logs at the same time then maybe a smart admin will figure out what happend.

this can allso be what patterns the automatic security system looks for...