I/O Tap

Skill: I/O Tap (IQ/Hard).
You can monitor the input and output from a single system.
Roll against skill, with a penalty equal to the system’s Complexity
(treat telephone lines and other simple systems as Complexity 1).
This gives you awareness of everything on the screen, everything
typed on the keyboard, and all data coming in and out of any
network line (though unless you use the Binary Translation tech-
nique, only things like e-mail and file names will make sense to
you). If you fail, you can try again (as a repeated attempt) but at
a cumulative -2 penalty until an hour has passed.
Range is as for Data Retrieval (p. 30).
Statistics: Mind Reading (Cybernetic Only, -50%; Ergokine-
sis, -10%; Melee Attack, C, -30%) [6]. Further levels replace
Melee Attack with Short-Range 1 [9], then remove Short-
Range [12], and then add Long-Range 1 [27].