Hacks robots

He cast a wary eye over the network display, and set to work running a
quick-and-dirty intrusion of the system. Jensen wasn’t in the same league as
career hackers like Frank Pritchard, but he knew enough to brute-force his
way through a data net. Bouncing an intercept from the input/output port,
he guided a cursor to an API node, then through a redundant directory,
edging closer to the vital registry he was targeting with every step.

He was two nodes away when the system’s diagnostic subroutine
triggered, redlining the intrusion. The computer began a rapid back-trace,
closing the gate on Jensen as he swiftly ran out of room to maneuver.
Failure would mean every alarm in the building going off, and the end of
his clandestine entry.

Jensen pushed on, taking the risk. At last, he connected to the registry
and triggered a capture function. As the program co-opted the command
data, the seeker trace enveloped it – one percentage climbing, another
falling, with success going to whichever executed first. Jensen’s hands left
the keyboard and he got ready to run; but then the registry flashed green
and the network warning fell silent. In the next second he was looking at
command authorities for the cameras and the patrolling robots, and with a
few deft keystrokes he ordered the systems to ignore him.

- - Deus Ex: Black Light, Chapter 8 pgs. 150-151