Compared to two hundred years ago, the offensive and defensive interaction among Internal Strength Masters in this era was usually quite restrained, involving merely cautious probing or setting up traps named "honey pots," waiting for the enemy to blunder into them. They would write viruses, track and counter-track, and seek out their enemy's true names and identities.
The cryptic method of "activating a certain backdoor" was not commonly seen.
The reason was simple—if your enemy was also a master of internal strength, a backdoor could typically only be effective once.
A master of the internal techniques could at least write their own patches.
If you didn't defeat your opponent in one strike during a battle, then your enemy would often find a countermeasure.
If the systems developed from the ancient era up to now were called a "mountain of shit," then this mountain was actually full of various holes. Some of these cavities were deliberate, while others were naturally formed.
