Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Hacking in Solar Echoes (part 3)


Though society in the Solar Echoes universe has completely converted to a cashless system, many governments across a number of worlds in the Union have been considering reverting back to a cash-based system. While armed robbery upon businesses and banks is far less common than in the days of cash, digital theft has risen to staggering levels, and these silent crimes have jeopardized anyone connected to the Stream in some way. Efforts are continually being made to engineer information networks to isolate and control data exchange in order to prevent hacker intrusions. However, systems are becoming frustratingly difficult to use for the average citizen as a result of the restrictive security measures. Pre-loaded data chips with varying limits of Credits (the currency used across the Union) have seen increasingly popularity. However, the downside to the pre-loaded data chips is that personal theft is again on the rise.

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