The so-called "voodoo" of the Voodoo Boys was actually network capabilities that barely reached corporate business-level, surpassing the level of street punks.
Brigitte was an ambitious, skilled, and even lucky hacker.
Netwatch promoted itself as the last barrier between humans and AI, humanity's last hope, but like all street kids, Brigitte remained skeptical and indeed found a group:
She learned techniques on some BBS forums and heard very credible rumors against Netwatch—
"Netwatch says the Old Net is full of roaming AIs, and hackers would get attacked, their brains fried, and they isolated the Old Net with the Black Wall.
But the truth is the Old Net is full of treasures, amazing AI technologies, and the Black Wall itself is an AI.
Netwatch uses AI to prevent others from obtaining AI technology from the Old Net, thereby maintaining an advantage in network technology."
