12-02-2014, 02:10 AM
A subverted AI takes effort, and can be discovered and unsubverted. An emagged borg needs to have line-of-sight at the start and can easily be tracked down and beaten to death. Either of those are also super easy to discover because the QM console's state is shared between everyone using it, and therefore two people using it at the same time get nowhere fast. HoP embezzlement requires an HoP or above ID and is easily reversible if you don't spend all the money quickly.
Packet spoofing, on the other hand, takes basically no effort, and there is no way to locate the perpetrator (who can be practically anywhere in the station) or to block, resist, or undo his dirty deeds.
Packet spoofing, on the other hand, takes basically no effort, and there is no way to locate the perpetrator (who can be practically anywhere in the station) or to block, resist, or undo his dirty deeds.