Sleepyman
May 2 2007, 12:46 AM
A hacker has made his way into a facility node without alerting the system, but at some point he goes a little too far and the system starts taking measures.
Serbitar's 0.9 guide suggests that it might start by tracking the intruder before it would attack. The hacker has a Redirect Trace action he could now use, but how soon does he know that he's being tracked? That seems important, because if the hacker finds out he's being tracked, he has time to log off before the Black IC heads his way.
I'm thinking that if he actually checks the status and has security or administrator access, then he'd know automatically. If he doesn't check, then I'd give him a Matrix Perception test to notice?
And one other silly question: if he does have administrator access, is there a good reason (other than meta-gaming) why he can't just temporarily shut down the IC as a normal, non-hacker action?
Aaron
May 2 2007, 02:00 AM
| QUOTE (Sleepyman) |
| I'm thinking that if he actually checks the status and has security or administrator access, then he'd know automatically. If he doesn't check, then I'd give him a Matrix Perception test to notice? |
That's how I would do it. Matrix Perception hits = number of data points for which one can ask. Thus:
Player: [clatter] "I've got three hits. What am I looking at?"
GM: "It looks like an IC program."
Player: "Weird, it hasn't attacked me. What's its Rating?"
GM: "Four."
Player: "Huh. What programs is it running?"
GM: "Track."
Player: "Aw, crap!"
| QUOTE (Sleepyman) |
And one other silly question: if he does have administrator access, is there a good reason (other than meta-gaming) why he can't just temporarily shut down the IC as a normal, non-hacker action?
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None that I can see. Unless, of course, the node is configured such that administrator access is not allowed to shutdown running IC processes (which I could see for a secure node; if the IC runs rampant, the spider can just manually reboot the node).
Sleepyman
May 2 2007, 02:58 AM
Heh. Thanks! Good suggestions.