hi mods!! Please help us sound like smart hackers re: this.
Namely,
a) Do Daisy and Johnny have any chance of accessing UN public records? For their soldiers, or for anyone in the general public. b) If yes, is it the kind of access that they could either find evidence of algorithms that are checking citizens for suspicious patterns of behavior (related to Morningstar), OR c) Failing that, could they get enough access to personal records to try to predict things the UN might flag? Not sure if they'd do this bc it's basically setting up their own digital witch hunt, but could be an attempt at predictive defense.
And to pitch some specifics, this could either be just direct hacking (more likely to see if the UN has set up flags), or cobbling together data through more mundane personal data logging (insurance companies that track health, social apps that track purchases/travel, personal networks, etc), or looking for any extra suspicious behavior on those sorts of app (like what is and isn't being funneled into UN databases). OR, if they can determine some sources of data collection that might be easier to access, trying to piggyback on those less secure apps and plant a backdoor of some kind further up the line (tl;dr if they can't hack the UN directly can they hack facebook, who is clearly shilling out info 2 the government).
For reference, Johnny is ofc a big plot device genius nerd and has been absorbing what he can as a techie at Vyonation for about 2 months, using the access he's got to snoop on higher level programs/jobs without pushing his luck too much, and studying up on any hacker circles he can (probably not the really good ones, if they're visible). Daisy is also a ~*~master hacker~*~ and has been at Vyonation for about 2.5 months, practicing back end access on small businesses and working her way up to higher security targets (she tried hitting a tax collector's office a month+ ago, which was a close call, but has been working on leveling up since).
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Namely,
a) Do Daisy and Johnny have any chance of accessing UN public records? For their soldiers, or for anyone in the general public.
b) If yes, is it the kind of access that they could either find evidence of algorithms that are checking citizens for suspicious patterns of behavior (related to Morningstar), OR
c) Failing that, could they get enough access to personal records to try to predict things the UN might flag? Not sure if they'd do this bc it's basically setting up their own digital witch hunt, but could be an attempt at predictive defense.
And to pitch some specifics, this could either be just direct hacking (more likely to see if the UN has set up flags), or cobbling together data through more mundane personal data logging (insurance companies that track health, social apps that track purchases/travel, personal networks, etc), or looking for any extra suspicious behavior on those sorts of app (like what is and isn't being funneled into UN databases). OR, if they can determine some sources of data collection that might be easier to access, trying to piggyback on those less secure apps and plant a backdoor of some kind further up the line (tl;dr if they can't hack the UN directly can they hack facebook, who is clearly shilling out info 2 the government).
For reference, Johnny is ofc a big plot device genius nerd and has been absorbing what he can as a techie at Vyonation for about 2 months, using the access he's got to snoop on higher level programs/jobs without pushing his luck too much, and studying up on any hacker circles he can (probably not the really good ones, if they're visible). Daisy is also a ~*~master hacker~*~ and has been at Vyonation for about 2.5 months, practicing back end access on small businesses and working her way up to higher security targets (she tried hitting a tax collector's office a month+ ago, which was a close call, but has been working on leveling up since).
Thank you!