Chapter 81: The Little Thing of the Millennium Worm
Two thousand years of bells have been ringing, and all mankind has come to a "new era" around the sun on the earth.
It is said that it is a new era, but it is actually quite debatable. Because whether it is the so-called 2,000 years or the millennium, it is created by human beings based on certain concepts.
Is there a small planet in the universe that is a little man to welcome them in the second millennium AD. No one cares except these little people. Even the earth beneath their feet doesn't care.
If the earth really has the will, he himself can use his billions of years of life to laugh at these little things whose lifespan is no more than a few times around the sun.
However, it doesn't matter whether the earth cares, the sun cares, the Milky Way, the universe doesn't care, and human beings themselves care.
When the bells of the millennium were passed along with the advance of the date line, the entire earth entered two thousand years.
When the last moment of the 2,000 years came, all the organizations that preached that the last day of 1999 was the end of the world at the last moment exploded on the spot.
However, those who do not participate in these organizations have also been affected. In particular, the field of electronic computers has encountered a big problem of a millennium bug.
If you don't deal with it a little bit, you may have to play the entire Internet, and the database that is not connected to the Internet!
As for the reason for the end of the game, it is very simple, because the memory in the early days of computer development was very valuable, the programmers who developed computer programs at the beginning, in order to save bytes, only used three digits to represent the year. For example, in 1985, it is recorded as 985, for example, in 1988, it is recorded as 988, and in 1999, it is recorded as 999.
Well...... Up to this point, there is no problem, but how can two thousand years be represented? Two thousand years into one, the last three will not become 000 years?
Once the year changes to 000, all data stored in the previous year 999 will be overwritten.
And this process seems to people who don't understand the principle as if there is a terrifying bug that eats all this data.
Therefore, the media called this incident with a single digit less than a single digit as the Millennium Bug Incident.
However, although the principle of this incident is simple, it is not easy to solve.
The difficulty is not in changing a single computer, but in changing hundreds of millions of computers with limited manpower.
For example, companies such as Industrial Light & Magic that use large-scale rendering farms, no matter how others solve it, in short, they must solve their own crisis first.
An operation to sweep the snow in front of each door began.
However, compared to those manufacturers who are in a hurry, Wanhu is not panicked at all. Because all the machines in Wanhu have the function of recording four-digit years in advance.
This is because Takahashi had the foresight to know that there would be a thousand-year-old worm, and the second is that the development time of Wanhu is relatively late, and no one will cut off the single digit of the year in order to save a single byte.
As for how the millennium bug problem was solved before the arrival of the millennium, the solution is also very simple.
It's not some hacker who has sown a super worm program that infects all computers and then corrects the time system.
If someone really does this, even if it can solve the current millennium bug problem, but the other question is, will anyone dare to use the computer in the future?
If you still dare to use it, then if someone is like this modification time, they can hack into the computer unscrupulously and arbitrarily and obtain any permissions it wants, which is really terrifying.
Of course, what people think of as network data secrecy is not actually confidential.
As the world's largest Internet user, the United States must report all websites officially established in the United States at the state and federal levels.
If the state and the federal government deem it necessary, they can access data that many people thought was confidential.
The reason why the data is still kept secret is because the relevant departments have not yet felt the need to investigate.
Regulation isn't necessarily a bad thing, and without it, the Internet could be a lot of chaos.
For example, some extreme and bloody Didong City will be widely circulated.
However, regulation is not necessarily a good thing.
If you are over-regulated and have to take care of everything, then the Internet might as well not be counted.
The regulation of the Internet in the United States is in a very delicate category. As long as you don't commit something, you have a lot of authority, but once you start committing something, then you will pay the price for your previous freedom.
In the same way, Wanhu Interactive Entertainment, as a company operating and developing in the United States, also abides by the rules set by the relevant departments in the United States.
However, the Internet business of Wanhu Interactive Entertainment is basically linked to the Wanhu battle platform. Even if there is some excessive discussion in the player forum, it will be stopped in due course.
This kind of behavior, in the eyes of those players who have been stopped, of course, there is a feeling that Wanhu Interactive Entertainment is in cahoots with relevant departments.
However, there is no way for 10,000 households, so do they really not cooperate? Do they just wait to be cleared out of the US market?
Although there are many employees in Wanhu Interactive Entertainment who advocate the concept of long live freedom, they are also able to accept a certain degree of supervision.
Because only when the rules are made, can there be freedom in the rules.
Oh, by the way, back to the millennium bugs.
The final solution is to change the time of the root server of the Internet, which is the most fundamental root server, and make a callback.
Most networked machines achieve a unified display of time by synchronizing the root server.
Isn't it 999 plus 1 to become 000?
Then adjust the year of the root server to 001, anyway, this system only began to be applied in 1976, and the previous data can be arbitrarily altered and added, as long as the number is corrected before 976.
Wouldn't all the computer technicians in the world be able to change all the computers in 976 years?
In fact, these repetitive efforts did not last long, such as Symantec, Kaspersky, Wanhu Security and other companies, have launched fool modification packages, as long as the download is no more than 10K files, click a click, and modify it instantly.
The apocalyptic problem, which was advertised by the media, was easily solved. And the first companies to launch modification tools are remembered by users.
There is even an illusion that these security companies are really safe.
As a result, those expensive antivirus software were sold one after another.
However, with the hot sale of these antivirus software, there seem to be more and more viruses on the Internet, and they are becoming more and more powerful.
As a result, antivirus software sells better......
Raise poison to kill, and raise bandits with good hands.