Posted in Alt.soc.military.fen
By: ZeroSumSolitair.
Subj: So, do you want Military Grade hardware?
So, If I wanted a military-grade Tachikoma I would first make an application to Orion. After a thorough background check, and a security check, I'd get two serial numbers and provisional Pepper certificate numbers. These are then sent to the Space Patrol along with form FCA1, wich requires a valid and legitimate reason for purchase, another inspection of storage arrangements, a inimum standard of competency, a medical certificate, and a minimum level of security before they'll authorise the sale. Then, after paying more money than I earn in a year, I get a Tachikoma, and a security dongle specifically encoded to match that Tachikoma with all licensing and operation restrictions hard-coded in. It won't even function without that unlock key engaged, and even then only under certain circumstances.
Attempting to bypass the dongle will probably end up killing the entire unit, or getting me arrested, or both.
So, basically, a giant pain in the ass for anyone to go through, ensuring only people with a legimtimate need or serious obsession ever think about going through with it.
Instead, I could buy a conventional Motoroid from Asagiri and either jump through the same hoops, or pop the inspection hatch under the rider's seat and jump terminals PCN-9 and PCN-15 on the main PCB with a paperclip to unlock the full-feature OS.
The terminals were drilled out, but the contact tracks are right there on the surface of the PCB.
Woops...
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By: ZeroSumSolitair.
Subj: So, do you want Military Grade hardware?
So, If I wanted a military-grade Tachikoma I would first make an application to Orion. After a thorough background check, and a security check, I'd get two serial numbers and provisional Pepper certificate numbers. These are then sent to the Space Patrol along with form FCA1, wich requires a valid and legitimate reason for purchase, another inspection of storage arrangements, a inimum standard of competency, a medical certificate, and a minimum level of security before they'll authorise the sale. Then, after paying more money than I earn in a year, I get a Tachikoma, and a security dongle specifically encoded to match that Tachikoma with all licensing and operation restrictions hard-coded in. It won't even function without that unlock key engaged, and even then only under certain circumstances.
Attempting to bypass the dongle will probably end up killing the entire unit, or getting me arrested, or both.
So, basically, a giant pain in the ass for anyone to go through, ensuring only people with a legimtimate need or serious obsession ever think about going through with it.
Instead, I could buy a conventional Motoroid from Asagiri and either jump through the same hoops, or pop the inspection hatch under the rider's seat and jump terminals PCN-9 and PCN-15 on the main PCB with a paperclip to unlock the full-feature OS.
The terminals were drilled out, but the contact tracks are right there on the surface of the PCB.
Woops...
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?