Gem, you still need to edit Spectre's search for asyncs out of your post. Then all evidence of my mistake will have vanished.

Well even if it was copy protected I'd be a pretty shitty hacker if I couldn't remove that, wouldn't I?

However, I'd guess giving you access to Lind's elite self-programmed exploits would probably cause them to degrade faster (more people using them means greater pressure to patch the holes they exploit), but maybe an older back up (that still works, just without the +30) could be wrangled out of Lind for free.

Basically!

This doesn't remove their combat applications, however, despite the fact that combat hacking is basically impossible (1 minute to do it fast as possible, which translates to 20 full rounds of combat).

You've just got to use a bit more planning and be a bit more insidious.

Oh, yeah. Sure, sorry.

I'm not sure, but I think somewhere in the manual I read about that being a task action with a timeframe of 2 months.
Yep, page 248, software. Talk about DRM...
Though if you've had your software for a while, I guess it'd be reasonable to assume you've freed it of copy-protection.

Sounds like fun. You just need to hack into wherever you want to be beforehand...

And hey, would it be at all possible to crash the mesh? Just locally?
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Not that I intend to, just wondering.

Well, the mesh is powered by distributed computing so... I guess... maybe if Spectre, Lind, Henric, Tyrfing, and all our muses all got together, started hacking every wall, small object, piece of food, clothing, and person in a habitat, installed back doors in all of them, and were never caught we could, maybe, get into all their back doors and crash them all in a cascading fashion to bring down the mesh?

It'd probably take years and would most likely go down in history as one of the most impressive computer terrorism attacks ever, though.

You would need a distraction to assist in it of course, a more obvious attempt, or even clumsy, or even just a person preforming regular terrorism to draw attention away from your little scheme.

On AR: The channel (Or group of channels) you're experiencing are part of a public beautification/psychological comforting project designed to make the cold steel, low light minimal habitat appear livable enough so that people don't go eventually insane, and to allow infomorphs to interact with people in meatspace.

In combat, you generally turn this off. I assume you all have it on because that's what normal people do.

Krylo's plan, while cunning, would sadly fail spectacularly due to unknown outside forces.

As for combat hacking: The best way to do it is to infiltrate the system ahead of time, and then manipulate it during combat. However, the window for use is extremely small, because once someone realises their smartlink has been compromised, they'll simply turn it off. Granted, this prevents them from enjoying the smartlink's benefits, but it does stop you from making them say... Kill all their allies.

ok Aizen

I believe that Daniel would be turning off the AR more often than usual, he is the kind of guy who finds beauty in flaws. His favorite word is atmosphere, because regardless of if you are looking at a painfully barren and ugly landscape marred by constant abuse from the destructive nature of the universe if you apply the word atmosphere to it you can find some small tragic beauty in it.

Has it on now though, made it easier to find the room and he figured if there was a presentation going on no one uses projector slideshows anymore.

So does that mean Daniel finds Desmond's face beautiful?

That would rely on Desmond bothering to put up an AR image of a gorgeous face over his hideous mug.