Should Pirates/Unlawfuls in RP, use Trade Lanes?

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inRP, no, I don't think any of them should. Not even Lane Hackers. Why? Technology evolves at an astounding rate. The speed of the average marketted CPU roughly doubles every 18 months. Sure, every now and then they may find an exploit, but exploits are often patched up within days, hours in many cases.

Actually you can pretty much hack anything you want, even today, the only problem is that you'll get traced and arrested almost definitely without question. Nothing is infallible, there are always ways to compromise a computer. The difference though is that in the real world we're hacking computers and servers that are in a secured location, trade lanes however sit in the middle of nowhere, like traffic lights or power lines or cell phone towers.

You could theoretically explain that trade lanes are too widespread, as a technology shared with every faction, to be considered extremely limited and protected. I would suggest that trade lanes should be considered no more limited than city streets our in our world. Even in London where CCTV reigns the streets are used by everyone including criminals.

Jump gates are a bit more uncertain, but again you could argue that they're just like a public trust.

If you've ever watched Stargate SG-1 you could just look at it that way. Everyone uses the stargate system, even good guys on bad guy planets.

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