Bit Mania [Hacking]

An extraordinary hacker in the last century once said: "A modem is more powerful than a sword." His name is Barlow, and he is one of the founders of American hacker culture.It is difficult for people in later generations to imagine where the group of "hackers" came from. Famous college students?National researchers?Or the engineers working in the enterprise? ...

No, no, no, you never think of who the "ancestor" of hackers is.

Looking through history, we were surprised to find that the answer turned out to be a group of young hippies who love rock and roll—who can connect music with computers?It’s unbelievable, but in American rock bands in the 70s and [-]s, there were always talented recording engineers, lighting experts, rock music TV producers and various electronic technicians, just such a group of marginalized young people, no Talking about how the music was played in the end, but without realizing it, he just played the amazing Bit Empire.

On May 98, 28, it rained intermittently in Taipei for half a month.

It was a heavy rain, and the branches of the eaves were still dripping with rain. A police car was parked outside the Taipei Detention Center. Its wheels ran over a puddle by the side of the road, splashing a splash of water. The reporters holding the cameras had already heard the news When they arrived, the door just opened and two heavily armed police officers jumped out, and they were surrounded by reporters. When the detainee stepped out of the police car, the shutter flashed for a moment and almost blinded the man's eyes. One staggered and almost fell, but fortunately, the policemen on both sides held him up, but if you look carefully at this young man, you will find that his face is already pale, his legs are trembling, and he was almost brought out half-supported and half-held.

"Mr. Chen Weiling, when did your confrontation with Octo take place..."

"Mr. Chen, CIH has infected tens of millions of hosts so far, what do you think about this number..."

"Is CIH really unsolvable, or is there something hidden..."

"What is the relationship between you and Octo..."

"It is understood that you once dropped out of MIT, and now you are returning to a local university..."

"I heard that you joined the Taiwan army, but you were eventually forced to retire because of your family's history of mental illness. May I ask if your mental condition caused this virus..."

The reporters tried their best to hand over the microphone, and one of them even poked the young man's face too hard. Chen Weiling tilted his head and clenched his teeth tightly.

That's how it goes.He never intended to spread the virus, and he's pretty sure he didn't that night.

The policemen blocked the reporter with their bodies, and tried their best to send him to a detention center for temporary detention, waiting for evidence collection and trial.The reporters were blocked outside the iron gate of the detention center, craned their necks to look inside, and the scene was full of excitement.

After being arrested, Chen Weiling confessed that he wrote the CIH virus to compete with Octo, and in the end he won. The astonishing results and the large-scale spread of the virus made this little-known young man an overnight success. People who are widely concerned by all walks of life, you must know that if he really defeated Octo, the name Chen Weiling will definitely be raised to a strategic height by the country.

The Internet is even more heated about this matter. On the one hand, the virus that has completely subverted the previous concept is still expanding outwards crazily, and network fortresses have fallen one after another. On the other hand, everyone is also closely watching Octo's reaction. ——Octo defeated Kevin Mitnick and became the throne in [-]. Today, after four years, will a new star jump out, reproduce the scene of the year, and replace Octo?

And this new star, could it be Chen Weiling?

It has been nearly two weeks since the virus appeared, and the virus is still spreading. Even the original author himself has not been able to give a solution. Only a few sporadic god-level figures on the Internet or the world's top antivirus companies have put forward some prevention suggestions that are better than nothing. However, the other party, Octo, was in a calm situation, and it can even be said that there was no news at all. Whether it was to hide our strengths and bide our time or to acquiesce in defeat has attracted different opinions on the Internet for a while, and some people have already begun to speculate that what if the Octo building collapses? ... Will this network change from now on?

A mobile phone booth near the detention center, a figure stood quietly inside, but did not make a call. Fortunately, there were no people in line behind to urge him. He had a panoramic view of the scene through the transparent window of the phone booth until he saw the young man The man was wrestled in by the police, his fist hanging by his side was clenched, and his palm was hurt by a coin. Finally, he gritted his teeth and threw the coin into the public phone.

At the same time, compared with Taiwan, which is at the center of the storm, the atmosphere on the mainland is not easy.

"Ding dong——" the electronic bell rang outside the door. Zixin looked up at the clock, put down the pen and paper and ran to the door, looked close to the cat's eye, and then opened the door for the people outside.

"Your courier."

He took the large corrugated box from the courier outside the door familiarly, checked that there was no trace of damage, signed a pseudonym scribbled, thanked the other party, and held the box and hooked the door with his toe.

"Today's one is here?" Zheng Xiuxiu opened the window of the room, turned his head when he heard the sound, and asked as usual.

"Ah."

Zixin gently put the carton on the ground, opened the box after a sigh of relief, and took out all the things one by one. There were seven or eight brand new hard drives in total.

This is the most common style on the market now, Seagate ATA hard drive, the disc is still made of aluminum, and the speed is only 5400. At that time, the market price in Huaguo was about 500. That’s only 90 yuan, and factoring in the value of currencies in different eras—so it makes sense that in the [-]s, computers were considered a luxury by Chinese people.

Since the outbreak of CIH, Zixin's original plan has changed from competing with Kerai to cracking the virus. These are two different concepts. For the former, he can take a super hard drive and fight the opponent once, as long as his machine can carry it. , while the latter needs to submit a world-wide virus solution.

Now that the shell of the virus has been pried open and its logical structure is clearly visible, the challenge is how to detect, kill and defend against it.Because it was the first time he encountered a master who specialized in burning hard disks, Zixin was not fully sure. For this reason, he ordered a large number of hard disks from merchants in the computer city where he was located, and prepared a large number of hard disks for experiments. The materials he used were the most on the market. See styles.

Fortunately, Zixin enjoys the salary that FSF pays him every year, and has the strong backing of a chairman who is not doing business properly. Otherwise, ordinary people would really not be able to stand this painful game.

It is said that the three of them came out of the Internet cafe and stayed in the hotel for one night. When they heard the news about CIH, they found a rental house through an intermediary to stay temporarily, intending to settle down and crack the virus.However, during the two-week experiment, the burned-out hard drives alone could fill a whole truck, and bursts of burnt smell emanated from the room all day long. After the landlord who thought there was a fire broke down the door several times, He wanted to drive them away with a sullen face, but thanks to Xing Chuzixin's explanation and paying more rent, he calmed down the skeptical landlord.

Zixin picked out a hard drive and greeted Xing Chu to come over and debug it. After opening the case, he took out the broken one and replaced it with a new one. He started a specific program to make the virus run within a controllable range, and the fan of the mechanical hard drive was buzzing. The ground sounded, indicating that it was doing high-intensity data reading and writing.

The two stared at the screen closely, reading the data from Xingchu, while Zixin wrote down the conclusions.The weather in June has already entered summer, in order to dispel the burnt smell in the room, the windows are kept wide open all day long, but fortunately there are screens to keep out mosquitoes.The rainy season, which is unique to the south of the Yangtze River, is here, and it will often rain heavily. After the rain stops, the covered cicadas will ring out one after another. Listen to Xingchu's gentle voice slowly reading the parameters, as if with some cadence The rhythm of the song is quiet in the middle of the noise, which has a special taste.

Not long after, the burnt smell of electronic products permeated again. Zixin put down the pen helplessly, and was about to bend down to unplug the power supply, but was stopped by Xingchu, who looked serious, and directly took the paper and brush to brush. After copying down a few lines of data, Zixin blinked and leaned over to look at it, and soon a sincere joy appeared on his face.

"Find the code snippet for the entry point?"

"Hmm." Xingchu said.

The continuous electric pulse made a small cracking sound in the case, but the two people in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally, it's done. Just publish this code later, and the antivirus company will be able to create a signature. Once it enters the virus database, the computer can automatically scan and kill it." Zixin stretched his waist: "For the sake of ventilation, so I can't even turn on the air conditioner in hot weather, so I'm going to take a shower..."

"Shall I help you wash your back?" Xing Chu tidied up the manuscript paper in his hand and suggested with a smile.

"OK……"

"No!" Zheng Xiu's voice cut in.

"Have I asked for your opinion?"

"Zixin, this guy has bad hands, you will be rubbed off by him, let me do it..."

"I think you are not just washing his back!"

"Okay, okay," Zi Xin saw the two quarreling, his head was unusually big, the point is that he couldn't understand their quarrel no matter what: "I'll just take a shower, you all save a little effort Bar."

"Wait……"

"Click." The bathroom door was locked from the inside.

Xing Chu rubbed his nose and stared at Zheng Xiu speechlessly.

At the same time that there was a commotion here, the virus maker named Chen Weiling was already sitting on a chair in the detention center, while a group of policemen surrounded the phone booth only 50 meters away from the detention center, and sent the people inside to the nearest one.

Three or ten minutes later, Chen Weiling stared blankly at the person sitting in front of him, his face full of disbelief.

"How will you be here?"