Full Version: Hacking through a non-wireless node...
Ok, I realized early on in the game that you can actually set up a pretty defensive hacking suite by hacking through another Node (in this case a commlink). The signal of your main commlink is what you actually use, but you leapfrog through your extra commlink, a commlink which has its wireless capability turned off.
Both commlinks are cranial commlinks. One has Signal rating 5 the other is Off. The off one is just there to provide protection against possible hacking of your system by being loaded up with a combination of IC and Agents.
Now, how do they hack me? In order to be able to hack my connection they have to do the following:
Trace me
Go through the nodes and find my originating node (my commlink)
Now, IF they find my commlink they should, by default be forced to go through any of the nodes I’m working through, including the wireless one…how do they gain access to it? There’s no signal from it. Do they “ride” my own commlink signal to get to the offline commlink and try to hack it?
I’m not sure how to understand it? The commlink I USE for hacking is the signal that I use. Even though I go through a node that is offline my own signal can reach out to the next node in the chain (lets say the local public network) and then I can hack OUT. But how do they gain access to hack IN?
How, exactly, are you leapfrogging through a non-wireless commlink? It's a dead-end; you can't go anywhere from it, so you have to back to your hacking commlink and hack through that.
| QUOTE (Azathfeld) |
| How, exactly, are you leapfrogging through a non-wireless commlink? It's a dead-end; you can't go anywhere from it, so you have to back to your hacking commlink and hack through that. |
*Brainfuse*
Hmm, good point. My thought on the matter was that the node I access that is non-wireless is merely a node I access and then I go ”out” from that node by the signal of my ”main” commlink and continue hacking, I am after all not dependant on the signal rating of the new node unless I’m further away than my main commlinks signal can reach. Or have I gotten the game mechanics wrong?
| QUOTE (The Jopp @ Mar 28 2006, 08:09 AM) | ||
*Brainfuse* Hmm, good point. My thought on the matter was that the node I access that is non-wireless is merely a node I access and then I go ”out” from that node by the signal of my ”main” commlink and continue hacking, I am after all not dependant on the signal rating of the new node unless I’m further away than my main commlinks signal can reach. Or have I gotten the game mechanics wrong? |
You have. You can access that node and another simultaneously, but you can't access a third node through the second unless its signal can reach. You can only go through a node to other nodes connected to that one.
Ah, yes, that was the thing. I twisted my own plan. The point is to have it wireless enabled but cut out from the Subscription list by using legal access and having the main commlink non-wireless. They can hack me, it’s just a lot harder.
| QUOTE (The Jopp) |
| Ah, yes, that was the thing. I twisted my own plan. The point is to have it wireless enabled but cut out from the Subscription list by using legal access and having the main commlink non-wireless. They can hack me, it’s just a lot harder. |
That works, although I'm not entirely sure clipping the subscription list makes you any more resistant to hacking. I think, at least in my game, I'm going to rule that folks using Exploit are not limited by the subscription list, although they will be limited by the active subscriber rules.
While we're on this subject: Can you adjust Signal strength to transmit to a lesser distance?
See, it's been explained to me that in order for a hacker to hack anything, their commlink must be in Signal range of the device they want to hack, and vice-versa.
So, say a Samurai has a commlink with a Signal rating of 4. Can he tell it to intentionally reduce it to a Signal of 0 when he's paranoid about hackers, then kick it back up to 4 when he wants to place a call?
See, it's been explained to me that in order for a hacker to hack anything, their commlink must be in Signal range of the device they want to hack, and vice-versa.
So, say a Samurai has a commlink with a Signal rating of 4. Can he tell it to intentionally reduce it to a Signal of 0 when he's paranoid about hackers, then kick it back up to 4 when he wants to place a call?
I've mailed Fanpro about this yesterday so I hope taht I will get an answer. You CAN on the other hand turn off the wireless ability of a device.
Thanks! 
Eager to see their response...
Eager to see their response...
| QUOTE (Signal) |
| While we're on this subject: Can you adjust Signal strength to transmit to a lesser distance? |
Well, you could always just buy a signal "upgrade" that's less than the current signal strength, and install that.
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