Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Yokohama Souran-hen - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - The Creeping Shadow

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[Leadrous]

I apologise for this being late. I meant to post it a week ago and just came to check for any comments for corrections to find I forgot to post it. Oops😅. This chapter finished volume 1 of this arc, as always if you spot any mistakes let me know and I'll correct them ASAP.

Just to let you know the next chapter will be delayed as I need to replace my RAW's for volume 2 and my parcel hasn't cleared customs yet. Since I have them I've made a start on the Mahouka Presidential Election Arc, don't worry I'm not dropping this arc but since PEA is only 6 short chapters I'll do that while I'm waiting on my Yokohama RAW's and then release then in alternation.

Again apologies for the delay, I hope you enjoy the chapter.

 

[kaminomikan]

Erika is such a cutie.
Hope to see Honoka.

Spoiler

Traitorous-sempai getting flustered when getting an answer to her teasing.

 

[Sky]

i think on page 9 it should be "rin chan has been saying..." instead of "rin chan has being saying..."

 

[Leadrous]

Sky, you are correct, it should be been (past tense) rather than being. Thanks for pointing that out, its been corrected.

 

[Sky]

@Leadrous thanks for all the hard work

 

[Wolvenworks]

@Leadrous why "cracked"? thinking "hacked" would make a lot more sense

 

[Leadrous]

@Wolvenworks
I know what you mean and I did think about using the more common term anyway but the writer specifically used クラッカー (kurakkaa) which literally translates to cracker (Hacker is ハッカー Hakkaa).

I looked it up and its a technical thing but there is a difference in the two and given the context of the method of attack (repeated overwhelming attacks) it is cracking which uses persistence and a dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems and not actual hacking which is a more elite method. I really didn't get the finer details but the GAU attackers were crackers not hackers.

 

[Wolvenworks]

@Leadrous so "cracking" is a legit technical term? thought you got hungry and was thinking crackers lol

 

[Potkeny]

@Wolvenworks: I got here a "little" late, but wanted to link this if you are interested in the difference between "cracker" and "hacker". Though it might be too "oldschool", the origin is this.

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/hacker-vs-cracker/

The RFC 1392: Internet Users' Glossary defines "hacker" as:

A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term.