"Well you've got the right role model, if not the exact right idea. Robin Hood wasn't a bank robber; he was a highwayman. He would monitor the roads and when he saw the right kind of traffic, he'd snatch it up and take what he needed. Our basic form of digital graft works the same way. Today's scores aren't found in the banks, well, at least not so that a person could get to it without massive effort. Most of the money is in the air, like an idea. Really, that's all we have left, the idea of money. Machine thinks that you sent it a cred, it pops out a soda. Electric company thinks it's been paid, they send out the juice. Car thinks you're its owner, it opens up; the engine starts. Before we get into busting in to heavy databanks, I wanna talk about Spoofing. Money is only data. Ownership is only data. You learn to Spoof and then money and ownership become irrelevant. Besides that, it's your way in to any wireless system, and your trap door should you need to cut and run."
Their meandering walk took them over to the commlink section where Brian selected a few Novatech Airware links.
"Say you've got a real digital fortress like we'll be setting up later for your peoples, (what kind of budget are we working with here by the way?) Anyhow, there are some systems where the doors are just too thick to kick in. Most any system with something worth taking is going to be like this. In those cases your only options are going to be the low and slow port-scan, which could take hours or days, or you just bypass the door altogether and go in a window. Like, say you're prowling a fancy downtown condo to grab jewels, tronics, data, whatever. You want to get in, but if you just spoof the door, the house node will freak out since fancy shit like that needs all sorts of parallel confirmation. If you try to hack the node directly, you'll either be there for hours, which'll get you caught, grab up its ID and hack it from a remote location and come back once that's done, which doubles your exposure, or just brute your way through and hope you can beat the cops' response time. All three of these puny options fall before the might of the fourth. You steal their fridge. Spoof its subscription over to your link, drop the slave mode and reconnect it to the Home Node as a trusted device. Now you've got an unmonitored connection straight to the heart of the system. You own that place in 3 seconds flat. ...And that's why we're going to be getting a bunch of skinlinks here today.
