Network scanner

The network scanner is a holotape The player can insert this holotape into one of the Institute terminals to infiltrate their network and recover information. It also unlocks the door back into the Institute relay room, to allow exit from the Institute without a courser chip having been installed in the player character's Pip-Boy.

Location
The tape can be given to the Sole Survivor by Sturges during the quest Inside Job, by Proctor Ingram during Outside the Wire, or by Desdemona during The Molecular Level.

Related quests

 * Inside Job
 * Institutionalized
 * Outside the Wire
 * The Molecular Level
 * Underground Undercover

Bugs
When using an Xbox controller on a PC, the on-screen instructions ask to press X to insert the holotape. The correct instructions are to press A to insert the holotape and X to remove it.