"What is it? It’s a minor miracle. It’s a window of opportunity. It’ll give you about eight seconds undetected. But it’ll cost you." - Hernando Cortez[1]
The Cortez Chip was a microchip designed by Hernando Cortez for use in his smuggling activities. Since then, he has been able to replicate it and sell it on the black market.
Its purpose is to offer its users approximately eight seconds of invisibility and anonymity when hacking into protected servers.[1] This seems to be done by forcing corporations to expend unforeseen resources on the rezzing of Ice.