(04-04-2014, 12:40 PM)Snak3 Wrote: There is no mention of hacking IFF in lore.
My personal stance: IFF is meaningless for "real" information. It is a setting on a transmitter on the ship that is tied to the neural net somehow, and nothing more.
The Hackers get to do computer magic as the narrative demands. If they had to set up a fake ship, or have an agent steal a ship or any other potential means of hiding their true affiliations through the IFF, I'm sure a way would be found.
Further, even from vanilla Freelancer, there is at least one man per station who offers this exact service for a fee. Often enough, the guy offering would have no direct access to the people in question.
"You could stand to have a better reputation with the _________. I could hack your record for ___,___ credits . . ."
I think if almost every bartender in Sirius knows how to do it, the LH could do it better. Or perhaps they are using some kind of that LH counterfeit software to do it. Buy a unit of software for 200-3,000, hack a rep, make profit.