GURPS Shadowrun

[CousinX]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

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So we have established that way back in 2029, air-gaps are no longer a viable defense against what computers can do.

Why is this? Who knows. But in SR it's been that way for a while, it's just a fact of life. The explanation I'm going with is that in SR by 2070 or so, it is trivially easy to effect changes in electronic media at a distance. That means even if you have no wireless capability whatsoever, if there's a computer in a piece of gear I can tell that computer what to do.

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This, exactly. Based solely on what we can do now (see upthread, re: Van Eck Phreaking), it's reasonable to assume that any unshielded electronics (at least) will be vulnerable to EM manipulation, whether or not it has a wireless interface device.