Oz really was fabulous. I think one of the reasons why he's underused is that he's a difficult one to write: quiet and subtle but also pointed and sardonic. I think the only author I've read who really gets him is PaBurke, but those stories are well worth reading.
Anyway, lets say all the hacking has to be done completely without magic and Razor and Blade are magic enough that they can't turn it off in order to hack. So they suggest getting the best pure-humans out there: Dade and Kate.
I like your idea that there's an evil project that W&H are planning and those records need to be removed entirely from the computer system. Which may be sentient in its own right, because, hey, inter-dimensional law firm. It's a right tricky beast.
So Willow and Oz need a virus that can search and destroy and but it's all they can do to get the doorways open long enough to insert anything, they can't develop the virus itself. If Willow and Oz are really super good at getting past security or setting up their own security, but what they need is a very specific type of virus in order to crash some subsystem of W&H without crashing the whole thing since that would just get attention and retaliation, they would need help for that.
Meanwhile the government is not happy about a possibly-homicidally-depressed Willow working with a bunch of apparently-anarchist hackers, especially since their target is a well-reputed law firm. Willow and Oz get pulled in for questioning and Dade and Kate need to keep the process going until they get back which is really amazingly tricky because the hackers don't have the magical history to know what they're doing. So then they need to send some of their hackers to help Willow and Oz be released so that they can get back before their insertion program messes up. They manage to get Willow and Oz back just in time to prevent the W&H system from kicking them out of the system so there's still a chance to insert the virus. But now the virus has to be completed and inserted and then that pathway closed down so no one can track them later.
And what was originally a long-term all-year project now needs to be done before the military can mobilize itself to stop Willow and Oz. Then it's rush, rush, rush until they can get the virus in and then they're all surrounded by the army and various other minions. The hackers are going, oh no, we're in so much trouble. But then Willow goes out, looking sweet and nice (with no black to her eyes or hair) and lets Riley know that nothing happened that the government needs to worry about. And Oz just shrugs when asked what just went down. And the hackers look on in amazement, wondering what sort of pull these people have because apparently they're not all going to be handcuffed and dragged off to prison after all.
Though the military is still looking at them suspiciously. Riley points out that it might be hard for them to get jobs after school with their records. So Oz says he rather thinks that this on their record will get them quite a few job offers. Willow says, oh, yes, do they want a job with the Council? And Riley winces, because making the council even more powerful and irresponsible was not his plan.
Re: Willow and Oz and Hackers
Anyway, lets say all the hacking has to be done completely without magic and Razor and Blade are magic enough that they can't turn it off in order to hack. So they suggest getting the best pure-humans out there: Dade and Kate.
I like your idea that there's an evil project that W&H are planning and those records need to be removed entirely from the computer system. Which may be sentient in its own right, because, hey, inter-dimensional law firm. It's a right tricky beast.
So Willow and Oz need a virus that can search and destroy and but it's all they can do to get the doorways open long enough to insert anything, they can't develop the virus itself. If Willow and Oz are really super good at getting past security or setting up their own security, but what they need is a very specific type of virus in order to crash some subsystem of W&H without crashing the whole thing since that would just get attention and retaliation, they would need help for that.
Meanwhile the government is not happy about a possibly-homicidally-depressed Willow working with a bunch of apparently-anarchist hackers, especially since their target is a well-reputed law firm. Willow and Oz get pulled in for questioning and Dade and Kate need to keep the process going until they get back which is really amazingly tricky because the hackers don't have the magical history to know what they're doing. So then they need to send some of their hackers to help Willow and Oz be released so that they can get back before their insertion program messes up. They manage to get Willow and Oz back just in time to prevent the W&H system from kicking them out of the system so there's still a chance to insert the virus. But now the virus has to be completed and inserted and then that pathway closed down so no one can track them later.
And what was originally a long-term all-year project now needs to be done before the military can mobilize itself to stop Willow and Oz. Then it's rush, rush, rush until they can get the virus in and then they're all surrounded by the army and various other minions. The hackers are going, oh no, we're in so much trouble. But then Willow goes out, looking sweet and nice (with no black to her eyes or hair) and lets Riley know that nothing happened that the government needs to worry about. And Oz just shrugs when asked what just went down. And the hackers look on in amazement, wondering what sort of pull these people have because apparently they're not all going to be handcuffed and dragged off to prison after all.
Though the military is still looking at them suspiciously. Riley points out that it might be hard for them to get jobs after school with their records. So Oz says he rather thinks that this on their record will get them quite a few job offers. Willow says, oh, yes, do they want a job with the Council? And Riley winces, because making the council even more powerful and irresponsible was not his plan.