Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.14.163-20180325224119/@comment-26018514-20180327190320

Masma93 wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: ...

Unlikely, if I had to guess the reason they lost control is the "where" and "who" they hacked, Remnant probably doesn't generally need cybersecurity... James may be the only one who could have prevented this that knew about Salem during the robot design process... and he isn't an engineer or a great thinker(preferring to act first).

Ozpin and Co. *might* have been able to stop this had their only contact with the technology not been the idiot Ironwood, Polendina for instance likely would have seen the risk, but no-one in Ozpin's group(Including Ironwood) appear to be technologically proficient. Ironwood committed the mistake of connecting his personal scroll to the infected CCT network without verifying that the network was safe after the dance incident, and his scroll contained vital informations like Penny's schematics and perhaps infos on the paladins and the way they are used which could have helped Cinder to hack them, so he doesn't seem to be that knowledgeable of cybersecurity. Also he could have taken the precaution of bringing with him other huntsmen from Atlas, since huntsmen are more powerful and useful than regular soldiers. As I said, Ironwood is incompetent with cybersecurity, but he is the groups Cyber expert.... the Cybersecurity field doesn't exist in remnant because the people don't know about Salem, without Salem the Grimm are an unintelligent threat that would never leave a computer chip whole long enough to hack into it, the only threats who would hack a state system like this are Vacuo(as in the remnant boardgame RWBY plays), Vale, or Mistral(it's underworld), or the WF.

Unless one knows about Salem, they won't think about her as a possible hacker, even if they did, she herself wasn't... it was her underling from Atlas through a proxy from Mistral. It would be like checking for an AC disease spread by worms you never see after finding a pest free cat in your vents... the people who aren't trained to look never do.