The more advanced the equipment, the more frequently the gateway detects data streams, and the greater the energy consumption, making it impossible to hide under the dense surveillance of security systems. Trying to hide in a small workshop in a residential area and cause trouble, you might as well wait for Section Nine's Electronic Ghosts to kick down the door and blow you up.
So behind those top-tier Celestial hackers, even if they claim to be independent teams or private studios, there's always a big corporation backing them. Otherwise, there's no way to make it in this circle; the small fry would've been wiped out long ago.
