Hacking

Requirements:/u>/iRank 4 to 5 requires engineer focus 2-3

This stat determines the ability of a character to hack computer systems.

Hacking 0
No ability to hack.
Hacking 1
Able to determine the presence of unencrypted information sent over a
network.
Hacking 2
Able to read unencrypted material sent over a network, such as emails.
Hacking 3
Able to hack into poorly protected computers.
Hacking 4
Able to hack into most computers and read almost any legally encrypted
material sent over a network.
Hacking 5
Able to hack into most professionally encrypted sites and can often
crack even military-grade encryption.

Hacking the Police Band:
Characters with Hacking 2 and over can hack the local police band to
listen to ongoing dispatch messages. To do this, one must purchase a
police scanner and simply hold it in one’s inventory.

Each rank of hacking reduces the cost of doing a phone trace by 15%.
At Rank 3 it allows the jamming of a traced individual’s communications.
At Rank 5 it allows the interception of some of the traced individual’s
communications.

When combined with engineering to a total of at least 5, they can detect
bugs in any room they enter.