Chapter fivePepper –
Sometimes I wonder who’s scamming who.
Then again, if we dealt only with each other — the NetRunners, that is — we’d only be pushing bits between each other’s chipcoins and no one would ever really make any money. So are we the ones scamming the Corps and the Feds who come looking for us, or are they scamming us?
For instance, at this very moment I’m looking at a plan-within-a-plan.
Searles sent me this textfile with a bunch of netcodes. I had to fight three high-end Aivatars to get to Crazy Eddie to get an encryption update, as the file was by the newest key. Assuming, as anyone would, that the file was just what it was. But run it through my old encrypt keys — from two and a half years ago — and an entirely different set of codes is hidden in the file.
Which tel
