In Graphic Novel 15 (Wireless III), it looked like she didn't have enough range to get a satellite directly. It also looked like she could only access wireless communications, not your regular phone lines/Ethernet cables/etc. So unless a computer is using a wireless router, she wouldn't be able to get in, and my idea that she could do datamining is not feasible as long as that limitation is there.
The graphic novel doesn't really indicate whether encryption matters to her. A lot of wireless communication isn't very secure anyway. On the other hand, in this adventure, the "bad guy" (can't remember if he ever got a name) would probably have some cyber-security to make sure people have to pay for his technology.
In Graphic Novel 15 (Wireless III), it looked like she didn't have enough range to get a satellite directly. It also looked like she could only access wireless communications, not your regular phone lines/Ethernet cables/etc. So unless a computer is using a wireless router, she wouldn't be able to get in, and my idea that she could do datamining is not feasible as long as that limitation is there.
The graphic novel doesn't really indicate whether encryption matters to her. A lot of wireless communication isn't very secure anyway. On the other hand, in this adventure, the "bad guy" (can't remember if he ever got a name) would probably have some cyber-security to make sure people have to pay for his technology.
Well, she does have a range limit for the moment (100 miles is the estimation she gave for herself), but Hana's powers are still very immature, so I'm sure we can expect great things from her. As for the limit of wireless routers, that is not at all true. Just like any normal hacker, she can bounce (or ping) her signal through any wireless access point close enough in order to tunnel into wired computers and servers as well.
Part III made it look like she was pretty much screwed-- she broke out only to be gunned down? Will HRG send help for her? A rescue mission of CIA supers? And why would HRG want that dastardly Doctor's little creation? Sounds like some mean stuff to turn one's body against it's self!
In Graphic Novel 15 (Wireless III), it looked like she didn't have enough range to get a satellite directly. It also looked like she could only access wireless communications, not your regular phone lines/Ethernet cables/etc. So unless a computer is using a wireless router, she wouldn't be able to get in, and my idea that she could do datamining is not feasible as long as that limitation is there.
The graphic novel doesn't really indicate whether encryption matters to her. A lot of wireless communication isn't very secure anyway. On the other hand, in this adventure, the "bad guy" (can't remember if he ever got a name) would probably have some cyber-security to make sure people have to pay for his technology.
Well, she does have a range limit for the moment (100 miles is the estimation she gave for herself), but Hana's powers are still very immature, so I'm sure we can expect great things from her. As for the limit of wireless routers, that is not at all true. Just like any normal hacker, she can bounce (or ping) her signal through any wireless access point close enough in order to tunnel into wired computers and servers as well.
You are right, she could use phone lines or Ethernet cables after accessing them through a wireless port.
So I modify my statement that without a wireless router, she wouldn't be able to get in. Without a wireless router, she would be limited to the same kinds of access anyone else would have using wired communications to approach the network.
I'm sure she could initiate communications with whatever host is available, wired or not, starting with the nearest wireless port. We know she can do whatever she wants with wireless communications, but it doesn't really say anywhere that she can directly read or change information that is not travelling through the air. By that, I mean communications travelling by cable or residing in storage. Hana can only steal data that is in transit wirelessly. (Apparently "wirelessly" isn't a real word, but I think you all will know what I mean.)
OK, any IT people out there, help me out if this isn't right. Wired communications can sort of leak if the cable isn't shielded, but the signal would be much, much weaker than a wireless signal, which is broadcast on purpose. So she might be able to read those, but I think she'd have to be way closer than she needs to be to hear someone's satellite phone. Optical data and communications or magnetic storage are so different that they would probably be a different superpower. So my take on it is that other forms of data communication would probably not be available to someone who could manipulate wireless communications.
So for Hana to get information out of a system that is not broadcasting it wirelessly already, she would need to access that information using whatever protocol is provided by the computer (anonymous FTP, e.g., which not all computers permit) or a program like a virus or spyware, after using wireless to access to the network. Given her background, I wouldn't be surprised if she has a pretty good idea how viruses and spyware work. But a computer virus or spyware is not unstoppable, or someone would have done by wire what we suggest Hana could do with her mind - transfer billions of dollars to themselves, trash the world economy, etc.
Another limitation would be the network that is completely self-contained - no wireless components and no connections to the outside world. (If a business enables its employees to send e-mails to each other, it may not need access to the broader Internet.)
There is the practical limitation (to paraphrase another well-known TV show) that someone is not going to name a file MyEvilPlan.doc to help you find it once you do get in.
I have some quotes from the graphic novels 14 and 15. I tried to put bold font where the artists put bold font.
I did notice that she could not communicate with the satellite without her satellite phone. She might have said "there isn't another computer for a hundred miles" because she knew from using her power to look for any, or she might have said it because she was in a wilderness or rural area where none were expected.
Toward the end of graphic novel #14:
"...a flood rushed in. All the e-mail, text messages and satellite transmissions that float invisibly around the world. I don't know how it was possible, but I could see, read, sense every one of them. Every FYI memo. every sappy "I love you" text. Cans and cans of e-mail spam."
At the beginning of graphic novel #15:
"Hana can sense wireless communication. Her mind acts like a computer and interprets e-mails, text messages and satellite signals being sent wirelessly all across the world."
Quotes from Hana in graphic novel #15:
"I've got to get close enough to "hear" his computer."
"Wi-fi satellite signals beam data across the world, seemingly invisible, but not to me. I can sense them, read them, steal them, send them, and destroy them as easily as putting pen to paper. My control is getting better every day."
"My ability is more suited for the urban jungle than this one. Setting passwords. Stealing data. That sort of thing."
"They took my sat-phone. Strauss shut down his laptop, and there isn't another computer for a hundred miles in any direction."
"Wi-fi satellite signals beam data across the world, seemingly invisible, but not to me. I can sense them, read them, steal them, send them, and destroy them as easily as putting pen to paper. My control is getting better every day."
"They took my sat-phone. Strauss shut down his laptop, and there isn't another computer for a hundred miles in any direction."
By that, I think she meant that she now has no way of getting a distress signal out to H.R.G. because she can't create a direct link to him. For the sat-phone to have been working, an actual satellite would have to be in range. And as she said, she can intercept and use satellite signals as easily as smaller wireless signals. So, although I do believe she can communicate with any satellite as long as it is within a certain range of "sight," I don't think she can simply tell the satellite to send a message to H.R.G. for her, she needs something simpler like the sat-phone or the scientists laptop to do that. She needs to establish a direct link in order to send; an indirect one is useless to her, but only in this respect. In other words, what I am trying to say is that she doesn't need wireless routers and ports to receive and interpret signals; but, because of the complexities involved in sending to specific addresses, she does need devices more specialized like those because of how much simpler they are to operate than a giant satellite.
"Wi-fi satellite signals beam data across the world, seemingly invisible, but not to me. I can sense them, read them, steal them, send them, and destroy them as easily as putting pen to paper. My control is getting better every day."
"They took my sat-phone. Strauss shut down his laptop, and there isn't another computer for a hundred miles in any direction."
By that, I think she meant that she now has no way of getting a distress signal out to H.R.G. because she can't create a direct link to him. For the sat-phone to have been working, an actual satellite would have to be in range. And as she said, she can intercept and use satellite signals as easily as smaller wireless signals. So, although I do believe she can communicate with any satellite as long as it is within a certain range of "sight," I don't think she can simply tell the satellite to send a message to H.R.G. for her, she needs something simpler like the sat-phone or the scientists laptop to do that.
I took it to mean that the satellite itself is never in range, and she needs the sat-phone or something else to generate a strong enough signal. The quote says that she can send wi-fi satellite signals, and a satellite must have been in line of sight if Dr. Strauss was able to send out his messages. This is why I think range was the problem. Then I need to explain how she was able to change the message that was going to the satellite if she couldn't communicate with the satellite. She was close to the source of transmission and altered it in transit. Most of the power that got it to the satellite was already in the signal.
jjafargi wrote:
She needs to establish a direct link in order to send; an indirect one is useless to her, but only in this respect. In other words, what I am trying to say is that she doesn't need wireless routers and ports to receive and interpret signals; but, because of the complexities involved in sending to specific addresses, she does need devices more specialized like those because of how much simpler they are to operate than a giant satellite.
So are you saying that she can listen to any computer, even if it is not sending a wireless signal? When I say she needs a wireless port or router, I don't mean that she needs to have one at her end - she is one. I'm saying the computer she's listening to needs to be using a wireless router or port to send signals so that she'll have something to listen to. In the comic, it is generally stated that she has access to signals travelling through the air.
OK, so I've written a lot about how I think Hana's power doesn't extend to other mediums (at least not yet), but what about other content? Wireless is used for voice and video as well - harder to "decode" than text - but that might be another direction Hana's ability could go in the future.
She needs to establish a direct link in order to send; an indirect one is useless to her, but only in this respect. In other words, what I am trying to say is that she doesn't need wireless routers and ports to receive and interpret signals; but, because of the complexities involved in sending to specific addresses, she does need devices more specialized like those because of how much simpler they are to operate than a giant satellite.
So are you saying that she can listen to any computer, even if it is not sending a wireless signal? When I say she needs a wireless port or router, I don't mean that she needs to have one at her end - she is one. I'm saying the computer she's listening to needs to be using a wireless router or port to send signals so that she'll have something to listen to. In the comic, it is generally stated that she has access to signals traveling through the air.
OK, so I've written a lot about how I think Hana's power doesn't extend to other mediums (at least not yet), but what about other content? Wireless is used for voice and video as well - harder to "decode" than text - but that might be another direction Hana's ability could go in the future.
No, I'm saying that I think she can listen to any and every signal passing through the air around her: no matter if it comes from a satellite in orbit or a wireless router in the immediate vicinity; no matter if it is walkie-talkie chatter or a cell phone call or TXT message. But obviously, she can only access data that at some point in its travel passes by (info on a mixed network) or through (actual signals) some sort of wireless port.
In Wireless, Part 4, it does appear that her range is way longer than 100 miles (or it is now), and either the U.S. embassy (right?) that was holding her at the end of Part 3 had a tremendously insecure wireless network, they had a spectacularly insecure wired network with wireless access, or Hana can get into wired networks (contrary to my previous lengthy speculations) to set off sprinkler systems. Although if I were designing a building, I think I would hard wire the sprinklers to smoke detectors or let them be triggered by internal sensors rather than network them to anything.
HRG is in deep doo-doo. I would not want her after me!
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