I think I said what I wanted to say about the option and usefulness of hacking shoes and soup.
As for foundations killing system admins, I feel it's very thematic as it shows how little corporations value their own employees and would always feel the more lethal option is more secure.
I donīt think anyone in this thread suggested that the corps would abstain from using the current host design because of a concern for their own employees.
They should abstain from it because it costs money. We arenīt talking about unskilled labour. The employees cost money. The training they must receive only to ->try<- doing admin stuff costs money. Replacing dead employees costs money, the guy in human resources costs money, heck even the paperwork costs money. Even if we disregard all of that as mere sparechange the delay and disruption of ongoing projects caused by personnel turnover alone might prove crippling.
And all the equipment these people fry while doing everyday admin stuff costs money too. Alot of it.
All of these expenses are running costs, a term that makes bean counters clutch their hearts since antiquity.
If we agree that the prime motivation of any corp and the foremost vehicle for individuals to advance within the hierarchy of the corp is money and finding ways how to get it then the whole practice is just inexplicable.
Having them fry employees and equipment despite it hurting the bottom line just because is in the area of cartoon villainy.
And we havenīt touched on the question that not having access to your own system is not improving security, but the opposite. How is making access for your own guys just as deadly helping in thwarting intruders? You explicitly cannot improve security and
upgrade your
intrusion countermeasures safely. Yes, you want your system lethal, but for the other guys.
A high personnel turnover is a security concern in itself. Either because people arenīt yet familiar with protocols or because of the haste which complicates background checks.
Plus, if any hacking attempt succeeds,
(most likely because of the delay or distraction of your guys fighting for their lives against the host instead of having its support) you actually have to hack your own system `back` to get any measure of control over it again. Instead of having a kill-switch or an override.