Hey it's as close to uplink online as your gonna get. You might aswell refer newbs to it to shut em up, as for noobs they deserve a verbal beating.

If you really really want an online version of a hacking sim, then look at slave hack.

http://www.slavehack.com/

Maybe this will feed your need for multi player capable games. Because we all know introversion aint coming out with uplink 2, or uplink online.