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This is something I wish cyberpunk media touched more on.
One thing I always thought about when playing cyberpunk 2077 is why wouldn't companies have a failsafe for their equipment being used against them. In the game, you can use cyber decks from Arisaka and Militech and be able to hack and assault their infrastructure and employees with impunity.
I am not really sure companies would allow that...
Overlooking the concept of a failsafe? How did they get past the concept of the subscription model?
Fuck me I didn't think about that... owning your own implants? Goddamn!
I always imagined that it was due to a higher level of computer literacy amongst the consumer population. An hour after a corpo releases a new piece of tech under a subscription model, the software has been cracked and pirated all over the net.
Presumably those failsafes can be circumvented and your character being a cool hacker applies those exploits to their hardware.
Kinda like how software crackers have a pirated version of a game ready to go within hours, regardless of the encryption.
I guess that does make sense.
Uh yes the cracked version of Ida pro getting used to crack the next version of Ida pro.
This ends with Microsoft pluton
“Jailbroken”
Because they got tired of paying for the whiny engineers that would have to implement the failsafe and so they fired them all.
Even fictional evil companies need to meet goals set by the board.
That's the problem with cyberpunk as a genre. Its to cool. The first Deus Ex did it right. If it was in the hands of a better developer Watch Dogs could have too.
Lorewise, ripperdocs like Vick would serve implants with cracked software in contrast to the corpo-sanctioned clinics. If starting as a corpo, V has his Arasaka implants disabled during prologue after his termination. I wish it got explored more in the game though.