I always thought that having (or acquiring) any kind of hacking device makes you a Hacker. I read in a Nomad thread that Hacking Device are equipment and because equipment stop working when Unconscious, that you are no longer a hacker if you are in that state. Well, it is true, equipment stops working. Does it mean that to be a hacker you must have (or acquired) a hacking device and also still be alive ? At the end of the game, would a dead ex-hacker still count as a "Specialist in a Null State" if he's not a hacker anymore ? It is True that if you get healed during the game you don't count as a "Specialist in a Null State" at the end of the game. The other side, is that if you are still a hacker (even if your device broke / is disabled), then you should be a valid target for a anti-hacker program. But if your device broke how are you still connected to the network such that an enemy hacker could use your own Repeater to fry you ? I'm asking in Rule so that others can see it. I'm perplexed as it make sense to gain hacking immunity when Unc (although I never thought of that before) but it also make sense to still count as being an unconscious hacker for scoring purposes.
