Oops I messed the title up. Sorry. I'm working on a (quite long) doc trying to get the in-game explanations of the Matrix straight in my head and, in places, more consistent with how the rules are written. Sharing some excerpts now because I'm hoping to get feedback. These are the bits where I attempt to justify why deckers have to be close to their hacking targets, why you can't have two personas at once / why no-one can steal your persona, and lay the foundations of what turning wireless off on your devices does.
Edit to add - in case it wasn't clear - my goal here is to re-write the existing fluff to support the rules as written, bridging over what I see as gaps or inconsistencies, and fleshing out some things that are only half-said. I'm not going to add things for the sake of adding them but I do have some new concepts to introduce to explain some things that, per the books, don't make sense to me - like the "backbone" below. I know a lot of people's attitude is "just treat the Matrix as magic and don't even try and explain it". If that works for you, great! Really happy for ya! But it bugs the shit out of me. So here we go. Let me know what you think! If there's interest it might keep my enthusiasm up for getting it finished...
Edit to add - thanks for the enthusiasm! I'll get some more sections edited and polished and post them here, and I'll try and get the whole doc finished off and sharable. Nuts and bolts of Matrix infrastructure
The Matrix is so far ahead of our current understanding of computing so as to border on magical. Nevertheless, there are some ways in which it resembles the networks we are familiar with today.
- Mesh routing: the Matrix predominantly uses high-bandwidth, high-frequency wireless signals to carry vast amounts of data around. Unfortunately, these are also very short range and are easily blocked by solid matter. To get around this, the Matrix relies on a mesh network for the “last mile” of connectivity. The extreme density of devices in a 2080 city, combined with the ability to seamlessly pass traffic from device to device, can get your signal where it needs to go. Deckers call this part of the Matrix the local mesh or, sometimes, the lower grid.The local mesh has a strictly limited range: too many hops, too much distance, or too much interference and the signal degrades to become useless. Fortunately, for a legitimate user, their network traffic only needs to reach an uplink node, so this is rarely an issue.
- The global grid aka the Backbone: your connection only uses the local mesh until it can reach an uplink node and be routed onto the global grid, sometimes called the backbone or the upper grid by deckers. Uplinks are the interface between the wireless part of the Matrix and backbone, the on-ramps to the Matrix proper. Once your traffic is on the backbone, it’s being carried by a vast planet-spanning array of fibre optic cables and satellite links; bandwidth and speed are approximately infinite, and distance is no object.Security on uplink nodes is fierce, and traffic on the backbone is routinely subjected to deep inspection by GOD. Only the most legendary of novahot deckers have ever managed to smuggle illegal traffic over the backbone, let alone compromise an uplink node entirely.
- Cellular networking: when the local mesh fails you, uplinks can still fall back to early-20th-century style long-range digital radio signals. The bandwidth is feeble and the latencies are terrible; it’s only enough for text/voice/video comms, or for letting your car check with the cloud that you’re allowed to drive it. But at least it works almost everywhere.
- Fog computing: most Matrix devices have the ability to borrow computing power from other nearby devices. This is baked into the Matrix’s protocols. It allows devices to be relatively small and power-efficient, but still cope with occasional spikes in demand for computation. Taking smaller devices off the Matrix vastly decreases their computing power, however.
- Wireless power delivery: the Matrix is capable of trickle charging devices attached to it, via near-ubiquitous power points. Most small electronic gadgets (commlinks, sensors, headphones, cyberware) have effectively infinite battery life as long as they remain connected to the Matrix. Devices usually include only small backup batteries to get them through any power outages. Some illegal devices, designed to run disconnected from the Matrix for prolonged periods in order to hide from detection, feature larger batteries to compensate.
Your commlink as the keys to your wageslave life
When you boot up your commlink, the first thing you do is sign into it, via some combination of biometrics. This creates your
persona, your digital mirror-image in the Matrix. The persona runs for as long as your commlink does.
However, like any newborn, your persona comes into the world naked and powerless. So the next thing that happens is your commlink reaches out through the local mesh and up to various cloud hosts that live on the backbone.
Each of these hosts in turn establishes that the person using your persona matches their fingerprint. For users with direct neural connections, this is carried out as a brainwave challenge/response. The host reaches down through your interface and… pokes… your brain a little, inducing certain patterns. It measures how your brain responds to the poking, and compares it to patterns stored in very secure cloud hosts that were recorded as part of a cryptokey exchange when you created the account. If they match, the host is satisfied you are who you claim to be.
This process is completely safe; they assure us. Any resemblance between the transient brainwave states triggered and those recorded in epileptics is coincidental.
This process is extremely difficult to fool, particularly for lots of hosts at once; although there are urban legends of particularly wily deckers pulling off successful man-in-the-middle attacks against people using trodes rather than datajacks.
Unfortunately, users without DNI suffer much lower security. They have to rely on crude biometrics such as fingerprints and retina scans, all of which are much more vulnerable to fakery, even if they use very expensive and high-end scanners.
Once a given host is happy the persona is under your control, it issues your persona with access permissions over whatever it controls. (Deckers call these Access Control Lists, or ACLs - pronounced “ackles”.) One host might belong to Ford, and grant your persona access to drive your Americar. A Horizon host would give you access to your P2.1 social media account. An Ares host, after particularly thorough examination, would enable you to fire your Predator. And so on and so forth - even a low-key user will have hundreds of these permissions.
This all happens in a few seconds.
Personas are ephemeral things. They only last as long as the commlink is running and you are attached to it. (This is particularly irritating for trode users; if the trodes get jostled too much, they can disconnect entirely, and you have to sign in all over again.) Furthermore, to guard against… shenanigans…, the more secure hosts will re-run spot checks of brainwave patterns periodically.
Note also you can never have two personas. The cloud hosts will immediately detect if you attempt to sign in with a second device while the first is still running, and — depending on its paranoia level — either insist one persona is shut down first or completely lock the account down until you contact customer services to get it unlocked.
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