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Old 06-18-2019, 08:05 PM   #90
David Johnston2
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Default Re: Sol-1 [Infinite Worlds]

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Originally Posted by Varyon View Post
Well, I'm comparing the space research facilities to a land facility where the researchers leave each night to go home. The latter has far more methods available to conduct espionage - falsified credentials, social engineering, honeytraps, blackmail, and even compromised personal computers (if the researcher is able to take work home with him) are all much easier to pull off if the research is done in a building where people enter and leave daily. With research done in SPAAAACE, it's likely the researchers essentially live in the same building as they do their research, and don't really have the option of leaving from time to time for entertainment or whatever (which even those who live "on-campus" on Earth would likely have the option of). So, it's instantly harder to place an agent in a position where he or she can even try to compromise security, since you need some legitimate reason for them to go into orbit in the first place, and then go to the research facility after that. Honeytrapping a researcher to get blackmail material (which you can later use to get him to install a backdoor in the facility's network), for example, is a lot harder when your agent can't "just happen to meet" him at the bar he goes to every Friday night.

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Given that these research installations are part of a massive offworld industrial network. I'm quite certain the stations will have bars and support personnel.
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