Rebirth: Let's Talk About 1984

According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.

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Chapter 472

Going there won't do you any good, and you certainly won't get to see or take any important documents. They have their own internal network; it would be impressive if they could break into that system.

"Are you skilled enough to get in?" Geng Rui asked Xing Baohua. After asking, she noticed several fellow programmers from her hometown looking at her along with Xing Baohua.

It made her a little embarrassed.

"Do you know the purpose of a barbican? This is it!" Xing Baohua said irritably.

He then added, "Never go to their official website. It's for outsiders and newbies. Real experts don't go there. There's nothing of value in it, and you'll risk being hunted down."

“When I was researching literature, I read a short article from overseas that said there was a computer genius in the United States who was so good that he was able to hack into the North American defense system at the age of 15 and almost pressed the button to launch a nuclear warhead. Moreover, any computer in the world seemed to be undefended to him.”

After Geng Rui finished speaking, she looked at Xing Baohua, as if to say, "If a child can get into the US defense facility, maybe there are some defense plans or something inside?"

"First of all, the person you mentioned does exist. His name is Kevin, and he's been active on the internet since 1983. He's quite the expert. Thanks to him for letting the US defense know how vulnerable their systems are, which led to the establishment of an internal network system. And it's not as exaggerated as it sounds. Nuclear weapons just appear to exist on the computer, they can't be launched just by pressing enter."

How can we hack into their real system and obtain important data?

Xing Baohua scratched his head and asked Geng Rui, "Do you really want to experience it?"

Geng Rui thought Xing Baohua was going to demonstrate for her, so she nodded with a slight smile and said "Mmm".

"Buy a plane ticket to the United States, find a way to locate the US defense server, I guess it's inside their headquarters. Try to sneak in, get a cable connected to their main server just like we do, and then you can search their data however you want. Also, I guess their passwords are either 16 or 32 characters long."

To crack such a long code, you would need at least 100 galaxy-level supercomputers as code-breaking machines, and it would take at least a year to complete the cracking.

Geng Rui was a little taken aback, thinking that Xing Baohua was joking with her, and asked with a stiff expression, "Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration!"

"Do you think my skills are considered expert-level in the country?"

"Calculate."

"What I just said is what the experts said. How about I give you an 8-digit password and you try to crack it?" Xing Baohua chuckled, no longer looking at Geng Rui's expression, and turned back to his computer.

He glanced at the pager and saw it was from his guard, indicating that he had caught the plane and the target had been identified.

Only then did Xing Baohua smile with relief. He then called Zhao Shanhai again to give him some instructions, telling him not to make any more mistakes. This was their only lead; if they lost it again, who knew when they would catch the mole.

Xing Baohua noticed out of the corner of her eye that Geng Rui was sitting in front of the computer looking a bit dazed, so she asked, "Have you finished sorting out Lin Jianye's call records?"

"After finishing the work, he is now working on the base station distance positioning."

"Calculate who called or paged him between the time he finished using the public phone and when he went to the airport," Xing Baohua continued to instruct.

When you come here to learn, you can't just ask useless questions. He's short-staffed, so you have to make use of him, and it also has practical significance.

Suddenly remembering something, Xing Baohua called the manager of Huahong Bank again, asking him to check Lin Jianye's financial situation at the bank and fax over his bank statements.

Although I guessed that the other party wouldn't have a large amount of money entering the account, it was still necessary to check. Since the other party had already run away, their funds were basically overseas.

The fax arrived shortly after. Xing Baohua picked it up and glanced at it. It was a very ordinary transaction record, with no large expenditures or inflows. This made Xing Baohua feel that something was not quite right.

I checked Lin Jianye's employment information again.

Upon reviewing the file again, Xing Baohua frowned slightly. Lin Jianye's employment record showed that he was a Canadian citizen who had moved from Hong Kong to Canada with his family ten years ago and graduated from Yale University.

Yale?

The company has quite a few Yale graduates, at least twenty or thirty. There are few Chinese faces; most are foreigners.

These days, talent is in short supply, and to recruit talent, we have to use global brands, from all countries and schools. We can't just label someone as a Yale graduate!

This led Xing Baohua to speculate whether the mole had formed a small group.

Zhang Yongwei appeared first, and Lin Jianye appeared second?

Lin Jianye ran away, but Zhang Yongwei stayed behind. It's clear that Lin Jianye knew a lot, which is why he ran away.

Is Zhang Yongwei just cannon fodder, someone we're using temporarily?

Then Xing Baohua called the bank to request Zhang Yongwei's bank statements.

The result was rather unremarkable.

Xing Baohua was puzzled; were there other banks?

Perhaps they were worried that Xing Baohua's side could find the information, so changing to another bank is understandable.

All of this guy's employees have accounts at Huahong Bank, and their salaries are also paid through this bank.

What is Zhang Yongwei doing now? The guards sent to follow him haven't given any feedback yet.

"Boss, during the time Lin Jianye finished making the public call, his mobile device did not receive any call or paging messages. However, his mobile phone showed a wireless GPRS signal." The student who was doing the analysis suddenly gave Xing Baohua this information.

"Find the signal source?" Xing Baohua had just finished speaking when he told them how to access the wireless system on the Huahong Telecom website.

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