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| ===== Strategy ===== | ===== Strategy ===== |
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| Revealing daemons on devices is a very useful ability --- every daemon is less dangerous if you can plan for it in advance. Nonetheless, Daemon Sniffer is not a good program, because there are better alternatives. In every facility where there are daemons installed on mainframe devices, there is also a [[:mainframe devices:Daemon Database]] which can be hacked to reveal every daemon --- hacking the Daemon Database is better than using Daemon Sniffer simply because Daemon Sniffer takes up a program slot. | Revealing daemons on devices is a very useful ability --- every daemon is less dangerous if you can plan for it in advance. Nonetheless, Daemon Sniffer is not a good program, because there are better alternatives. In every facility where there are daemons pre-installed on mainframe devices, there is also a [[:mainframe devices:Daemon Database]] which can be hacked to reveal every daemon --- hacking the Daemon Database is better than using Daemon Sniffer simply because Daemon Sniffer takes up a program slot. |
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| Of course, you can't necessarily find the Daemon Database early, and the Daemon Database may have a daemon itself when you find it. However, with good [[:strategy:exploration]], the Daemon Database covers //most// of the same use-cases as Daemon Sniffer. If you want a dedicated program to deal with the critical devices you need to hack before finding the Daemon Database, or the case where it has a daemon itself, you would be better served by [[Hunter]] or [[Taurus]] which can remove daemons from those critical devices, where Daemon Sniffer merely identifies them. | Of course, you can't necessarily find the Daemon Database early, and the Daemon Database may have a daemon itself when you find it. However, with good [[:strategy:exploration]], the Daemon Database covers //most// of the same use-cases as Daemon Sniffer. If you want a dedicated program to deal with the critical devices you need to hack before finding the Daemon Database, or the case where it has a daemon itself, you would be better served by [[Hunter]] or [[Taurus]] which can remove daemons from those critical devices, where Daemon Sniffer merely identifies them. |
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