Echo v0.07a (NET Software)
Echo is an ICE-breaker: cyberdeck software that attempts to slip YOU,
personally, past one specific protected passage inside a host you are
connected to.
While you are connected to a NET host, run it at a target direction or
named passage:
run Echo <direction>
You can also run it by its local file number.
If the attempt succeeds, you cross immediately -- Echo both breaks the
protection for you and carries you through in the same action. If it
fails, you stay exactly where you were; nothing about you or the host
changes.
Echo does NOT log you in, does not raise your access level, and does not
disable the boundary's protection for anyone else. A successful crossing
is good for exactly that one crossing: the SAME passage requires a fresh
Echo attempt every single time, even moments later, even for you. Who 3.4
still reports you as unauthorized afterward if you were unauthorized
before.
Whether an attempt succeeds depends on your own skill and equipment
against how strong the specific protection is -- Echo does not publish
its exact odds.
Echo needs 3 units of free RAM while it runs and releases them when the
attempt finishes, win or lose. The stored copy stays on your deck and can
be run again.
See also: help net nodes, help run, help who 3.4