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Node Encryption, and Bionode Encryption

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ShadowMaster

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« on: <10-09-10/0145:53> »
Page 229 of the 20thEd says, "You encrypt a file, set of files, node, or communication link."
With this is mind, can you encrypt a bionode?
And an even more crazier idea, if you can, what happens tor spells like Control Actions, Control Emotions, Control Thoughts, Influence, and Mind Probe.
Since all of these spells affect the mind, and would seem to require some access to the mind to give commands or understand what's going on inside it...

Just thought this was an interesting idea.

Doc Chaos

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« Reply #1 on: <10-09-10/0512:43> »
Encrypt: see below
Spells: Doesn't change anything, the bionode is just a biological matrix node, not where your all of your mind is stored.
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Ultra Violet

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« Reply #2 on: <10-09-10/0635:06> »
Encrypt: Only if you are a resonance beeing (technomancer, sprite, technocritter...), a mundan hacker can't do anything. (see UW, p. 135 for more information)
Spell: Could affect a TM in the same way as anybody, but control about the Bionode is a decision a GM has to make. Maybe some sort of implanted thoughts that directs the TM into making something in his believe.

ShadowMaster

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« Reply #3 on: <10-11-10/2134:29> »
And I just found the following on page 136 of the UW, "Note that biological nodes may not be encrypted."
which answers all the questions in one fell swoop.