"Jin Young Ji-young, go out to play, my sister has something to talk about. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The young woman playing with the computer kicked her sisters out, then took a cold water bottle and a disposable cup and poured water for Gu Cheng and Cheerilee.

"You are the Gu Cheng that the car said on the phone, right? My name is Wen Huiying. ”

"Fortunately." Gu Cheng nodded slightly, and identified the female hacker in front of him with a flash of eyes. The other party is less than 25 years old, and it seems that he studied quite early.

The three of them exchanged a few polite words, and Gu Cheng got straight to the point and pulled the topic to business, and poured out the rhetoric he had thought of on the road.

"I heard that Sister Wen, you know some resources in the circle, and you also have the ability to launch DDOS attacks. So I want to ask, if you want to remotely mobilize 100,000 real IP addresses, visit the homepage of a certain website every day, and most of the secondary pages of your subordinates, how much will it cost? ”

"100,000 IPs? If this amount is concentrated in an instant, it can squeeze most of the websites in Asia. However, if the website operator adjusts in time and blocks access to certain IPs, it can still survive. ”

Gu Cheng said ominously: "I didn't say that I must achieve the effect of complete crowding, so I asked what the approximate price was, and tried the water first-I am a long-term business, and if I cooperate well once, I will still be a repeat customer in the future." ”

Wen Huiying's eyes flashed with a hint of enlightenment, and her eyes rolled slightly: "This kind of business, there may be repeat customers?" How big is your website business? How is the enemy? ”

At present, the development of botnets is already showing some signs. However, in terms of use, it is still at the level of framing competitors and "buying murder". Or there are a very small number of thieves and anti-thieves, and there is no positive business model other than this.

Therefore, it is unlikely that there will be repeat customers for such a thing as a distributed denial-of-service attack by a hacker.

At least Wen Huiying is in the circle and has never heard of a precedent.

Gu Cheng's statement naturally made her very suspicious.

Gu Cheng had no choice but to say a little bit of a scoundrel: "I'm also trying to innovate a model, anyway, I have my needs and channels." All you have to do is collect the money and do the work - just say if you want to take it. ”

"Sister Wen, you can help." Cheerilee was afraid that Gu Cheng would be deflated, so she helped on the side.

Wen Huiying rubbed her temples and smiled a little playfully: "Okay, for the sake of the car to help you, I will start with this small list - 100,000 valid independent IPs, I don't have enough money, and I have to find one or two peers to help you raise it together." As for the cost, I'll have to see the details before I can report it to you. Can you start by saying who are you going to deal with? ”

Gu Cheng only hesitated slightly, then took out a piece of paper from his bag, on which was written a string of URLs—those were the target customers he had carefully screened on the way here, ready to gamble.

Wen Huiying took it and looked at it, slightly surprised: "Huang Yi? Is it the top portal in China? ”

Cheerilee hurriedly helped Gu Cheng to lie: "Ah Cheng is originally from Huaxia, and he may have a personal grudge in China. ”

Wen Huiying didn't ask anything more, saying that the job was taken.

"Do it for a week, and you prepay this amount to this account. You have to find a way to cover it up yourself. Wen Huiying quoted the price and added, "I didn't earn this money alone, I also have to ask my peers to borrow broilers." I'm only a small part of you. ”

Gu Cheng is not entangled in the unit price, it is difficult to bargain for the first contact between the two parties for this kind of thing.

"I understand, you are Sister Che's friend, and you will never cheat me. Anyway, the first time, I accepted the price. The price is reasonable, and there will be repeat customers. I just want to know, when will you be able to do it? ”

Wen Huiying thought for a while: "Do it? You can do it right away. Just give me a day or two to raise it, you guarantee that the money will arrive within three days, and the effect can be accepted at the end of the month. ”

"Deal."

Gu Cheng drank the water poured by Wen Huiying, and the two sides left enough contact information, and then got up to say goodbye. Cheerilee also followed, and said hello to Wen Huiying's parents.

Gu Cheng and Cheerilee broke up at the subway station and went back to their respective homes.

Back in the rented office, Gu Cheng was still sighing: "Today's daily active IP is really expensive. ”

If you put it aside for more than 20 years, you can find a store that sells traffic fraud on Taobao, and 100,000 daily active IPs will only cost 100 yuan a day. It's more than 100 times cheaper than it is today.

However, the scale of botnets, the scale of netizens, and the fierce competition among peers in 20 years are far from comparable to those in 2000.

After all, this may be the first saliva of all mankind to use botnets to brush daily active IPs.

Those who eat crabs should always charge a little more expensive.

Respect for innovation.

……

Gu Cheng transferred the deposit from the company's account the next day, and had to do some clever processing.

His money-making strategy is already very clear:

He did his homework beforehand before deciding to do it. Looking for Internet giants in the circles of Huaxia and Dongyi who urgently need to brush up on the number of daily active IPs, Huang Yi was finally selected.

Judging from the news, today's large Internet companies in China are nothing more than the "top three": Sohu Sina Huangyi.

Sohu and Sina have completed their IPOs, leaving only one Huang Yi that has not yet been listed.

Preparing to go public, to be exact.

According to the official announcement of the NASDAQ, Huang Yi has entered the final stage of publicity before listing, and if nothing else, it will IPO on June 30, 2000.

There are still more than two months left.

That is to say, in the next two months, if Huang Yi's daily active IP can have a new round of leap, then before the opening of the market on June 30, those first-level brokerages in New York will increase the underwriting bid for Huang Yi, so that Huang Yi can raise more funds on the NASDAQ.

(Note: The stock market is divided into a primary market and a secondary market.) The stock market in which retail investors usually intervene is the secondary market; The primary market is open to brokers. When a listed company IPO, the stock is not sold directly to retail investors. Instead, a number of institutional brokerages first go through bidding to obtain underwriting rights, and then resell them to retail investors on the listing date. ）

Therefore, Gu Cheng is almost certain: Huang Yi's Boss Ding, at this juncture, is absolutely willing to pay for all kinds of behaviors that can raise Huang Yi's valuation.

What he wants to do is to match the gap and promote this new "data brushing" business model.

Buy low-cost traffic from hackers who own botnets; Add a price difference, and then sell it to Boss Ding.

This kind of business is not destined to last long, and it will be done for two or three months at most, and the peers in the circle will discover the secrets.

And Gu Cheng himself does not have botnet resources at hand, to put it bluntly, he is an intermediary between hackers and Internet bosses.

Therefore, after the first big vote is done, the profit of this business will fall sharply at that time.

Those hackers who have a botnet will gradually bypass Gu Cheng, who makes the difference, and directly contact the website boss.

Then the form of this industry will develop into "individual zombie owners directly sell zombies to individual buyers, and there is no middleman to make the difference".

Within half a year, the business will become unprofitable.

Because at that time, the indicator of "daily active IP" will be the same as "average daily PV", which will be flooded in the ALEXA rating system, and the brush will be rampant and become worthless. Until ALEXA upgrades its new traffic data evaluation algorithms.

This trend is completely conceivable by Gu Cheng.

Therefore, Gu Cheng was very sober from the beginning and positioned this business as "a hammer deal to earn the first pot of gold".

……

After Gu Cheng and Wen Huiying reached a deal, he was strategizing further strategies and figuring out the real market of finding hackers to lease botnets on the market.

At the same time, I take time to monitor Huang Yi's data fluctuation performance on ALEXA every day to ensure the effectiveness of hands-on.

In addition, he had to compile the data analysis into a report, and prepare the negotiation materials for him to return to China in a few days and meet with Boss Ding.

It's not easy to be busy with these things alone. Three or four days passed quickly.

Sure enough, towards the end of the month, in the April list announced by Alexa, Huang Yi's daily active IP count has increased unusually, and from the composition of daily active IPs, there are many IP address visits from Dongyi Kingdom.

Obviously, Huang Yi does not have a Yiyu version, and it is unlikely that Dongyi people will watch the news on Huang Yi, they will only watch NAVER.

These IPs can only be swiped by Wen Huiying after receiving money.

Gu Cheng felt that it was time to take this opportunity to return to China and ask to see Boss Ding.

So he booked a flight from Incheon to Beijing on April 30.

After booking the ticket, Gu Cheng still has a small matter that must be done before returning to China.

That is to reconnect with the Quan Shunyu he met at an Internet café a few weeks ago.

Two weeks ago, when he negotiated with Park Young-gwan of WEMADE, he had already raised the sign of "Son-in-law of the head of the Kwon Chamber" to scare people, and Park Young-gwan would definitely confirm it in the future.

Therefore, Gu Cheng must say hello to Quan Shunyu and win over the other party to lie for himself.

On the other hand, many of Gu Cheng's subsequent transactions need a company with relatively smooth cross-border payments to help him settle the accounts.

The working capital he can move on hand now is only about 500,000.

If the traffic business between him and Boss Ding lasts for two months, with Huang Yi's disk, the total transaction volume may reach the level of millions, and Gu Cheng's small body will definitely not be able to withstand the pressure of advancing funds.

He obviously had to ask Huang Yi to settle the payment once every half a month or even a week.

In this way, his company is registered in Dongyi, and the hacker resources he is looking for are also in Dongyi, which involves a large amount of cross-border payment, and this payment does not have any physical goods transaction and customs declaration.

In 2000, Huaxia's foreign exchange reserves were not as abundant as they were later, and foreign exchange controls were very strict.

Privately sending large sums of foreign exchange payments out of the country, the recipient is easily targeted by the regulatory authorities.

Therefore, Gu Cheng must find an import and export company that operates software or service products on a daily basis as a shell for funds to launder and cross the bridge.

Otherwise, you can only let Boss Ding find an underground-money bank to solve it.

It would be better for Gu Cheng to find Quan Shunyu by himself.

The copyright import and export agency in Quan Shunyu's hands can completely disguise the money paid by Huang Yi as the cost of "copyright import" and evade foreign exchange supervision.

And in this way, Gu Cheng can also show his muscles in front of Quan Shunyu by the way, showing that his business has grown. In the future, when Park Young-guan asks Quan Shunyu for verification, Quan Shunyu will have more motivation to help him lie.

What Gu Cheng is doing now is like an empty-glove white wolf liar who calls Bill Gates on the front foot and says, "I am the vice president of the World Bank, please marry my daughter to me", and then calls the president of the World Bank and says, "I am Bill Gates's son-in-law, please let me be the vice president".

I don't know how many more months will pass for this kind of hard time dancing on the tip of the knife.