The disadvantages you get from working wirelessly through static and noise encourages the groups decker to join the rest of the team in getting close to the target, or if possible, physical contact for that elusive hardwire connection that is the best. With all the changes to the hacking rules, and believe me from 4th edition they're practically rewritten everything, it flows in a much more general manner. If you hack someone's commlink to access their files you'll gain a score. Anything you attack something you will gain a score, if you fail to sleaze your way past a barrier your score will increase.
If you play nice there isn't any problems, but as soon as you start doing something illegal you begin to build an Overwatch Score (OS.) This score represents the traces you're leaving in the Matrix and allows the demiGODs to track you down and attack and dumpshock your decker ass. Basically it is their job to monitor their assigned grid for illegal activity. Now each grid is monitored by a division of the Grid Overwatch Division (GOD) of the Corporate Court (we all know them, they're the big guns of the corporate matrix world.) The division in charge of each grid are known as demiGODs.
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With the changes in the Matrix the corps have cracked down on security heavily. There are public and local operated grids as well. You want to hack into an Ares facility but you get your access from Shiawase, then you'll need to change grids to gain access if you want to go in wirelessly. The Matrix is now organized into grids, think of them like your cellphone providers network.
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Not having read the setting books for 4th edition for the metaplot I'm not entirely sure of the reasonings but the corps have taken back control of the Matrix from the free for all it was in 4th edition. Wireless is still there, items are still connected to the matrix wirelessly and it's still a major function of the setting but the hacking itself has changed along with the Matrix.
Well with SR5 the hacking/decking/Matrix has been almost completely rewritten. Yes it made sense to increase the technology to accommodate a logical extension of connectivity but a lot of people disliked it. With 4th edition the changes from wired decking to the wireless world was one of the most controversial of the game.