My rule for Emotitoys is that they have to be touching the person whose mood they are sensing. Because they're designed as toys for kids. So they climb on the kid, and use complex biometrics to determine the mood of the child they are playing with.

My rule for Emotitoys is that they have to be touching the person whose mood they are sensing. Because they're designed as toys for kids. So they climb on the kid, and use complex biometrics to determine the mood of the child they are playing with.

Then you have your hacker buddy program the toy so that it will try to kill anyone it climbs onto.

a mobile emotoy with a monowire garrote? that or some kind of poison delivery system. maybe both.

And it needs to look like a feral koala.


~R~

Anybody else thinking the Teddy Bear from the end of the Screamers Movie?

its a Care-Bear and it wants to give you a hug

Damn it, where was that video. It was like the care bears, only one of them was out for revenge for the murder of one of the others (and totally breaks a guy's neck)

Naughty Bear? Happy Tree Friends?

That could be. I don't follow HTF.

It always struck me that an emotitoy surely wouldn't be that secure from hacking, so if a runner team want to show up at a meet with one, let them.

Hackers have three options when faced with a slaved node. First, they can hack in directly to the slave with an additional threshold modifier of +2, though this requires a physical (wired) connection to the device. Second, they can hack the master node (thus gaining access to the slaved node—and any other slaves— as well), though this node is usually more secure. Third, they can spoof the access ID of the master node and then spoof commands
to the slave.