In High technology setting, the hacking skill is incredibly powerful, and a shortcut in many investigation scenarios. By hacking the CCTV camera, I could see that Joe did it, by checkin [insert social media] I know were the evil gad guys live.
Either you go old shadowrun-style with a whole mini game where decker can be killed by AI but it’s pretty heavy and weird, or you end-up with 3 success on my roll and give a lot of info for just one roll.
What are your trick/house-rules to prevent that ? And how would you actually protect from panopticon. Especially looking how stupid people are in today’s real world
Maybe a dose of realism? To hack anything serious from the outside it would probably take weeks or months of investigation, programming, testing, … So if the players don’t have the time, physical access, or previous knowledge and tools, that’s a big nay. It depends on what type of sci-fi though, if it’s the movie / tv type where hacking is a shortcut to anything in record time, welp.
Physical access is how Cyberpunk RED solves the problem. Sure, there are security cameras (etc) but if you want access, you need to do a dungeon crawl.