hacking easy

Mikoto lightly rubbed the chip portion of the IC card with her thumb. She then pushed
the card up against the reader for charging it. With a beep, it switched from the simple
screen for guests to a cold and efficient screen for the maintenance staff.
She had used her electric ability to hack in.
She passed her thumb over the IC chip again returning the monetary information back
to normal. She then began typing on the keyboard displayed on the touch panel monitor.
She wanted all the information on the attractions and shows taking place in the city.
It seemed that information was not held on that computer itself, so she started to hack
into Liberal Arts City’s local network.
“Wah!? ...What the hell?” Mikoto cried out as she looked at the screen.
She did not cry out because she was faced with extremely difficult security.
It was the opposite.
(Wah! Wah! I had heard that Academy City’s technology was twenty or thirty years
ahead of the rest of the world, but I can’t believe their system is written in such an old
style of language... This is like seeing a car running on coal.)

It was so simple that Mikoto felt it might be a trap.
But of course, not every student living in Academy City could do that kind of thing.
Mikoto was both enough of a genius to go to Tokiwadai Middle School and she was the
strongest esper in the category of electrical powers.
To her, Liberal Arts City’s security was not even at the level of a bucket with a hole in it.
It was more like a bucket made of cotton cloth.

- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS1, Chapter 2