Scenario: Danielle the Decker is helping her 'runner team infiltrate an EvilCorp office. She wants to hack the exterior camera so the team can sneak up the door. (Loop it, turn it off, glitch it out for a few seconds, whatever.)
According to 6e: she probably rolls Spoof Command (her Cracking+Logic vs the camera's Data Processing+Firewall.) EvilCorp isn't made up of fools, however. The camera is slaved to a security host that runs the building, so instead of its own pitiful dice pool, it can roll a decent handful derived from the host stats. Danielle doesn't need any access levels anywhere do this, so off she goes.
BUT HOL' UP A MINUTE
Per 6e CRB pg 185: "The virtual space in a host is separate from the Matrix at large, and any icons on that host are not accessible unless expressly part of a public-facing side. Gaining access to a host will allow interaction with the icons and devices on the inside"
Why is the security camera's icon on the grid at all? Why isn't it inside the host, which would result in Danielle having to hack the host first?
One response might be "you don't need a device to be inside a host to be slaved to a host", which I accept, but it doesn't answer my question. Why didn't EvilCorp choose to put the camera's icon in the host? It gives it extra security for free. But that doesn't seem to be RAI, or the change in Spoof Command from 5e to 6e is a bit pointless, right?