QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ May 25 2009, 11:33 AM)
Sure, but the fact that Ares is actually murdering dozens of people with alien spirits who then want to kill everyone else is A) Known by many more people and B) somewhat worse for Ares PR that the abolition of one product line that is already noted as going the way of the dodo.
I didn't say no defectors, I just said no defectors who knew anything really important. Like someone knows the full details of Ares wetwork and illegal operations. Is that person going to defect? The information is worth way more than 1 product line - you could destory the entire corporation.
Why? Agents can crack the system in their spare time. Its not like they get bored. They won;t need a second check.
Anyway the system explictly doesn't work like that, otherwise I couldn't make forgeries of nuyen. Which I can. If they are checking at a central database every time I do anything, I couldn't, because it would be instantly detected.
Ares has something called PR. For the people who care and actually belive that Ares does bug experiments they just pull out the PR and claim it's just animals and it's tightly controlled with tons of security. They're doing it to better understand the alien menace that (oh so very conveniently) demonstrated just how terrible it was when it took an entire city out of the blue with no prior warning. They're doing SCIENCE, and anyway everyone's still alive.
The key fact is that the Bugs happen to other people, and people messing around with spirit horrors are nothing new - Aztech does it all the time and some people know. People are either unwilling to hear it, or they feel that Aztech has the best interests of everyone at heart. Who knows, perhaps they do. Ares is doing things with bugs in isolated areas and it happens to other people. It's never going to touch
us, right?
Those who actually don't trust Ares realise that Ares isn't going to dump it's waste where it eats. Those bugs aren't an actual threat, even if they're using metahumans for it. If you're deep enough in the shadows to know that, you're most likely a cynical, horribly jaded human being that only really wants to look out for yourself and those around you. You can't meaningfully change what Ares is doing, so why worry about it?
I'm going to bet that someone who has a pretty good idea of the full scope of the Ares wetwork operations has likely been extracted. That kind of organisational talent is pretty useful to another Corp. Denying Ares that talent is even better. The thing is, that talent is going to another Mega who will pay them
more. They won't be leaking the info they got during their Ares run because they're actually getting a promotion by getting themselves headhunted by another Mega. They may also have a completely different ID now, with Ares revoking their SIN entirely and claiming that they're dead. Kinda seems a bit dodgy when someone who is officially dead claims to be working for another corp and has important information for the public.
You can't employ a dump of details from a Data Mining system by itself. It's only information. It's only value is in how it informs your actions and how much it can be sold on for. That's all. It will just get passed around if it actually has use. You can't deny the right kinds of data, and even if you want to it's going to nag at you. You'll just change credsticks to be sure.
The stick goes out of signal periodically. Like, when you sleep and it's only accessable through the secured home node. If a connection can't be cracked because it's only open for a single IP before it gets re-encrypted (RAW this works) then becoming unavailable before the 24 hour interval is up can interrupt a Crack Encryption action.
Either way, this is more a game necessity. Discussing how you can make Credsticks impossible to crack whilst employing only non-optional rules is beyond the scope of this discussion. These things exist if you want to delve deeply enough. That they exist is sufficient to ensure cryptographic security. Dramatic Encryption is just a way of telling people that they shouldn't waste their time going after pointless ends.
Yes, the system I've presented is very non-canonical. I'm perfectly happy with this - wasn't it clear all along? AH has argued for the canonical system all along. Frank and I appear to be in agreement that we don't like the smell of the canonical system and we've both adopted the same broad kind of system to solve the problems we see in the canonical system.