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<blockquote data-quote="Mosier" data-source="post: 6563769" data-attributes="member: 6776381">As you become more familiar with hacking, you'll start to be able to feel out situations like this. The choice for what to do next is more a matter of style than efficiency. Hacking in shadowrun is an art!You mentioned that Heartbreak wants to address the &quot;everything is awesome&quot; backup plan video. You can do that by finding and editing the video file in question. Once you find the file, you could attempt to just delete it. With a couple of marks on different devices and files you could even force the video to cut to a feed of whatever you wanted, like your little sister's birthday party, or an actual live feed of the event for example.Heartbreak also has some options regarding the drones. You mentioned possibly reprogramming their targetting software to cause havoc in the demonstration. To do this would take a lot of time and effort, but it can be done wirelessly. Another option is to find one, shut it down (much easier to do than to rewrite the software) and then connect a direct link from your deck to the drone (with an actual data cable). This would let you work without being on the CTI host, still constantly accumulating Overwatch points.Also, the containers in which Pow! is being stored are bound to have at least some kind of electronic vulnerability. It would probably be worth it to swing by the prep area to see how they'll work.All in all, you seem to be taking to hacking pretty easily, from your IC posts. The drek hasn't started to fly yet, though!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mosier, post: 6563769, member: 6776381"] As you become more familiar with hacking, you'll start to be able to feel out situations like this. The choice for what to do next is more a matter of style than efficiency. Hacking in shadowrun is an art! You mentioned that Heartbreak wants to address the "everything is awesome" backup plan video. You can do that by finding and editing the video file in question. Once you find the file, you could attempt to just delete it. With a couple of marks on different devices and files you could even force the video to cut to a feed of whatever you wanted, like your little sister's birthday party, or an actual live feed of the event for example. Heartbreak also has some options regarding the drones. You mentioned possibly reprogramming their targetting software to cause havoc in the demonstration. To do this would take a lot of time and effort, but it can be done wirelessly. Another option is to find one, shut it down (much easier to do than to rewrite the software) and then connect a direct link from your deck to the drone (with an actual data cable). This would let you work without being on the CTI host, still constantly accumulating Overwatch points. Also, the containers in which Pow! is being stored are bound to have at least some kind of electronic vulnerability. It would probably be worth it to swing by the prep area to see how they'll work. All in all, you seem to be taking to hacking pretty easily, from your IC posts. The drek hasn't started to fly yet, though! [/QUOTE]

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