Security Network Snooping
Fucking cameras... I an' I always getting hacked.

While camera hacking as it currently exists does have its uses, it still leaves just a little to be desired. Last night, I had a Sindome Dream involving some plot or another, and it gave me a pretty cool idea.

When a decker hacks a camera/wiring hub/screen(?)/whatever, they could get the option to add themselves (or another grid username) to some kind of remote viewing list for the network that device is connected to, essentially turning their gridterm into a portable security monitor hooked into the network (before someone scrambles to tell me this is overpowered, there is chrome that does the same and is arguably much harder to steal from someone)

The amount of active feeds you can have at once would obviously vary depending on what tier of gridterm you have, and it would be just as easy for another decker to remove you from this list as it was for you to add yourself to it in the first place. It would result in an increase in people asking deckers to hack cameras for them, now that they can provide a feed of the entire network, allowing someone to potentially scope out a building or gather intel on their opponents, and also more people hiring deckers to keep the public-facing aspects of their network secure with ICE and daemons.

Being on someone's security network could… potentially…? have other benefits down the line, but I think this is more than enough to start.

(Edited by Baguette at 4:48 am on 7/15/2026)

I don't see why it couldn't be both.
Deckers to keep them safe from Grid breaches, SecTechs to keep them safe from physical breaches

(Edited by Baguette at 5:01 am on 7/15/2026)

1. You're completely right, and taking that into consideration maybe the decker's connection to the security network could be limited. Like, for example, they get thirty minutes of access each time they run the command to add themselves. Even if they keep spamming that command forever, they will eventually be forced to back off as they run out of programs and/or the Grid Heat generated by the device grows larger and larger. This way, deckers won't be getting eternal access to someone's net just because they're too lax on their security to hire a decker of their own.

2. I wouldn't call it OP, but I would say it's all the more reason to hire a decker to install ICE and daemons on your exposed devices. That way, in that scenario, you would be alerted of someone trying to breach your network and be able to sever that chrome's connection from it before you were compromised. I mean, come on, doesn't that entire situation just sound cool as fuck?

As for your last point, I do still like the idea of being able to monitor individual cameras/microphones forever, but I would *really* like if it were integrated with my idea including the two points I made above. Being able to temporarily be in someone's entire network, or forever (until you're kicked off, anyway) have access to individual cams.

(Edited by Baguette at 5:02 am on 7/15/2026)

look man i just want deckers to be able to do anything further than "go to excessive lengths to get physical access to a certain device for the groundbreaking payoff of a list of names and how much they get paid a week"