Can data stored on your ship's computer (such as Central Core Bank Account details, cargo manifests, and jump point navigation) be lost due to object destruction or compromised by a hacker? Would such a hacker require physical access to your ship's computer? What do you envision the hacking / cyber warfare element of Star Citizen to look like?asked by Nogitsune

Great question. Not something that we've done a massive amount of thought on, but it raises a really interesting issue. I mean, we've been thinking primarily for the Drake Herald and the info-runner business about how you would protect data and transmit it, and then also people would wanna block and, you know, try and intercept stuff. So there's a certain amount of sort of electro-computer-hacking-warfare that we were thinking that we would probably do, and we'll probably have some of that on the big ships. I know one of the designs that we've been talking about for the capital ship stuff is you would even have one station where the other person is trying to disrupt the other ships systems and potentially jam them or even try and get a virus aboard them.So there definitely will be some level of that. I don't know so much about hacking personal details and all the rest of the stuff. That would still be a sort of to-be-determined design feature. But we are certainly doing quite a few things that will make the kind of "hacking warfare" an aspect that can happen in the game, 'cause it'll definitely be part of some of the big-ship combat, and some of the Squadron 42 stuff, and it'll definitely be part of the info-runner stuff. And so, you know, who knows? Maybe we'll do a little bit of that on the player side, although you wouldn't want to get to the point where someone can get complete identity theft and screwed over in the game, because it's not fun in real life, so we don't really want to do it anyone in the game to a level where it's sort of devastating! Although maybe a small amount of stuff could be interesting, but that's still a to-be-determined aspect. But thanks for the question, Nogitsune!