-esw-dragoon_77 Don't fret, the farthest I've gotten with the ARC is also the SS database. My guess is that Zortrium has (liked most of us) played the demo over and over and is looking for other challenges. He thought (like me) that the government mainframe might be a more difficult task. But I also couldn't find the phone number of the admin (isn't in public access).
Now about your trace time. Which do you mean active or passive?
Other than bouncing your signal through tons of servers (preferably internal, banks, gov with admin access) there isn't much I know you can do to prolong the passive trace. If you connect through Internic (first bounced server) though, you should have enough time to delete your logs and successfully end the passive trace. BTW: You are deleting the log of the first server you connect to? This gives you the most time to clean up the logs. If you are deleting the logs at your target server, the passive trace will have already passed this server and will find you.
If the problem is an active trace, the only trick other than the bouncing, is using bypassers on the monitors. This should enable you to break a password and nose around without starting a trace..
Like Zotrium, I've been wondering if there are any kind of special servers or other goodies that would be interesting to hack in the demo??
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