In the rule book most attacks on a runner's deck seem to end up being the burn em out kinda electrical charge approach. If this won't work on people due to fiber optics then its less likely to affect a deck. Worse no one ever seems to think about things like fuses and surge protectors and such...all of which are designed to limit the effectiveness of electrical attacks. So we need a new approach.

OS Alterations: Scramble
Without a functioning OS no netrunner can function, end of story. none of this partial damage and programs nuked, this one goes to the heart of it all and messes with the deck itself on a personal level. Till the OS is re installed the deck is useless, of course hardware OS' are safe, but then how many black market netrunners can craft a hardware OS...and keep it updated?

OS Alterations: Menu Mix Up
This attempts to rewrite the deck's menu command structure resulting in nearly random actions and commands.

Functionality: Switch Burnout
Most modern computer systems come equipped with a software controllable switch, much like the ctrl+alt+del function on the computer you're using right now. If that command goes into over drive, flipping the switch on and off repeatedly it will eventually wear the switch out.

Functionality: Memory Burnout
Most modern decks come with read write memory blocks, each with its own finite life span, and error checking systems. This command instructs the deck to begin repeatedly writing and rewriting material to each sector till its is useless./p>

Functionality: Signal Noise
The deck is instructed to add an annoying static pattern to all virtual sensory output making running the net like listening to nails on chalkboards, all the time.

Storage: Bunnies
The deck has a finite amount of both storage and operational memory. Anyone who has used an older computer knows exactly what can happen when either begins to be filled. That's the purpose of bunnies, it is design to load itself over and over again while creating copies on all available storage media. Eventually the unit crashes from the overload and all its memory blocks are filled.

Identification Alteration: Rename
Each and ever deck, be it from off the shelf or rebuilt by a netrunner has an identification chip. Even black market decks need one in case someone asks and they can't prove the deck is legal. This program sets up a new identification code for the deck and if anyone with authority asks that is the ident that the deck will give. What you do mean my name is Bartmoss...?

Reformatted December 16th, 2000