Tang Huan's disciple is named Rich Skrenta, who is very young and still in college, but after careful training, he can still take charge of his skills in the field of computer security.

Back then, Rich Sclenta was a bear kid, and when he was in middle school, he dared to think of a way to fly from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas to visit COMDEX, and even took the opportunity to experience the product by copying the ElkCloner virus he wrote into the latest Fangyuan personal computer to observe the reaction.

Due to the attention of the media, Tang Huan did not deal with this little thing, but sent him to Cupertino in Silicon Valley for a visit, and at the same time notified the parents to lead the person.

However, after Tiancai became one with the bear child, his thinking became more and more different from ordinary people. Impressed by the dazzling technology of the Cupertino R&D center, Rich Screnta clamored to learn from Tang Huan.

It must be admitted that all living beings in the field of technology are also divided into three, six and nine, each with its own positioning, even if most people can be called smart, but they are still only suitable for following the rules to be a blue-collar worker on the assembly line, and those who have both talent and personality are suitable to stand in front as a captain, and realize creativity and execution into development.

Tang Huan saw that Rich Screnta had the qualifications of the latter, and the media fanned the flames, so he half-pushed and half-acquiesced to the matter.

It is conceivable that by chance and the Silicon Valley tycoon and the richest man, Rich Sclenta's life path has naturally taken a major turn, and the most important point for young people to struggle for - opportunities, there is no need to worry about it from now on.

Tang Huan didn't look away, Rich Screnta is indeed a manufacturable material, and he has honed his skills in the emerging field of computer security.

The story of this bear child's rapid transformation into a real technical elite just reflects a phenomenon in the IT industry - ambition is not old, ambition is 100 years old, and many achievers are so young that people are jealous.

The team led by Rich Screnta, whose members also included two researchers from Symantec, was characterized by their high energy, and when they arrived at the data room of Pacific Telecom, they immediately entered the working state, and carried out an investigation through system logs and other clues.

Knowing that his teacher wanted to know first and foremost the extent of Pacific Telecom's malfeasance in this security incident, Rich Skrenta turned around and sent the results of his preliminary judgment.

The computer system has this advantage, no matter how carefully disguised it may be on the surface, but the binary data inside does not lie - and Pacific Telecom does not dare to delete such a thing as a pretense, and if it does, the nature of the accident will change again, and nothing will become an accident!

According to Rich Scronta, Pacific Telecom's engineers are actually very serious, but the problem is that the transition from an old mainframe system to a more advanced Fangyuan server system requires a complex process, and although the security policies are similar, there are still obvious differences in the way they are implemented.

The compromised mainframe is about to be decommissioned, and the data involved is being migrated to the Fangyuan server in stages, probably for the convenience of work, so that there is a loophole in the permission configuration of this differential system connection, which is already a short board. And then the hacker took advantage of it.

After Tang Huan saw this result, he couldn't help grinning, because Gai Yin was not far from the outside world's discussions, and he might be used by some competitors to make a big fuss.

Since AT&T's spin-off into "one big and seven small," Pacific Telecom has become the most noticeable of the seven gourd babies.

Compared with the other six places, Pacific Telecom is much more radical in its development, and one of the major manifestations is that it actively develops new business and tastes great sweetness.

For example, Pacific Telecom overcame various technical difficulties and took the lead in implementing the caller ID function, which immediately scratched the itch of users, so that the previous investment was richly rewarded, and even other telecom companies did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to introduce this proven successful application solution in order to save time.

Caller ID is just a small test of Pacific Telecom, its bigger move is to fully introduce the most advanced digital communication technology, and then cooperate with banks, insurance companies, public service companies and other units to provide users with information query services.

In terms of network construction, the pace of Pacific Telecom is also significantly faster than its peers, especially the speed of data connection services, in just a few years, from the original large-scale 300 bit rate, popularized to 1200 bit rate, 2400 bit rate, the central area has reached 4800 bit rate, and even the test area has reached 9600 bit rate.

You know, although the demand for data services is increasing day by day, telecom companies tend to prefer a solution - if you don't hate the slow network speed, then apply for a few more cables.

As a result, telecom companies are making more and more money.

However, Pacific Telecom does not use this ready-made method of making money in front of it, and always strives to achieve the fastest speed on a line, which makes it very difficult for its peers, as if it is not kind to users.

According to the assessment of telecommunications industry observers, although Pacific Telecom claims that it is in full swing to upgrade, after the initial investment in equipment, more concentrated on the software level at the end of the bureau, the cost control is more reasonable, but there must be hundreds of millions of investments.

More importantly, the communication technology represented by ISDN is in the ascendant, and even Europe is ready to fully implement it, which makes the industry have been cautious about the future development direction of the network. But Pacific Telecom has buried its head and desperately expanded its traditional network, aren't you afraid that it will be difficult to turn the ship around and lose money when the time comes?

In addition, the early rush of Pacific Telecom's full throttle into the cellular phone service was also seen as an unsteady risk.

However, the western part of the United States is the territory of Pacific Telecom, and people can toss it as much as they want, ignoring this kind of questioning, and still doing their own thing as a different star in the telecommunications industry.

Now Pacific Telecom can't play cold, your system has been broken by hackers, how can you hold the shelf, and the guy who feels that Pacific Telecom has broken the rules and made everyone very passive can't help but gloat a few crooked words.

Of course, as a public company, Pacific Telecom's share price has inevitably suffered.

Seeing this scene, the board of directors of Pacific Telecom couldn't sit still, and hurriedly suggested to Tang Huan: "Mr. President, you should go back to the headquarters in San Francisco, let's have a meeting to discuss." ”

How could Tang Huan be willing to have his rhythm disrupted? So he calmly asked Chuck Smith, the chief executive of Pacific Telecom, to say, "You guys take care of the specific work, just don't make any mistakes." As for investors' doubts about our future direction, they will disappear when I finish my trip to Hannover Messe. ”

The members of the board of directors of Pacific Telecom, who had already gathered at the headquarters in San Francisco, were not so easy to appease, and seeing that Tang Huan was staying in New York and unwilling to move places, they flew to the eastern part of the United States one after another and persistently sent the meeting over.

Tang Huan couldn't cry or laugh a little, couldn't he even wait for a few months? Okay, let's sit together, drink tea and sip melon seeds, and chatter and chatter.

In fact, it is impossible to become a director of a large company worth tens of billions of dollars without a city government. The reason why they came all the way was because they planned to see with their own eyes whether Tang Huan was really as stable as Mount Tai.

However, when they saw their chairman of the board of directors, calmly playing bowling with a bunch of dolls in a club, everyone was shocked - what a nerve!

In this way, what was originally planned as a serious and intense board meeting turned into a lively and interesting leisure activity.

Soon, another piece of fun came. Rich Skrenta, who went to Pacific Telecommunications to investigate and evaluate the security incident, unexpectedly encountered the hacker who attacked the Pacific Telecommunications host on AOL's BBS, and then got into trouble.

It can only be said that the hacker mentality in these years is still relatively simple - if you don't show off, you feel uncomfortable, and if you don't show off, you will die, maybe this person is more extreme, and he talked about it in the original forum section, and even put down his words arrogantly: "I know, maybe the people from Pacific Telecom, or even the FBI, are already squatting here, and if you have the ability, you will come to track me." I've also heard that the richest man is highly skilled, and I don't know if he has become 'once'. I've captured your telecommunications company, so why don't you show up in person, and the two of us can have fun. ”

Seeing that the other party dared to provoke his teacher, Rich Screnta quit and immediately spoke: Killing chickens with a knife, it is enough for me to accompany you, you are not qualified to challenge my idol.

The two of them quarreled so much in the forum that they immediately attracted a large number of onlookers who were using other AOL services, and people did not feel sorry for the expensive Internet connection fees, staring at the text scrolling on the screen with wide eyes, for fear of missing out on such a fun novelty.

In fact, Rich Screnta and the hacker with the ID Condor spit on each other in the forums are not boring, but also a type of combat.

Just like in the popular kung fu movie "Jingwu Hero" in the United States last year, before the competition between Fumio Funakoshi played by Kurata Baoaki and Chen Zhen played by Jet Li, they deliberately provoked each other in language to try to disturb each other's minds.

The same is true of the confrontation on the Internet, after your verbal test back and forth, you can guess the opponent's thinking and behavior habits to a certain extent, and then help the next competition on the target host agreed by both parties.

The network security game, in the final analysis, is a fight between people, so it is an extremely complex system engineering, and if you only understand technology, you will fall into inferiority.

Rich Screnta was the first to throw the bait at Condor: "You must also understand that the console you entered before belongs to the mainframe that is about to be phased out. So, even if you get control of it, you don't necessarily have the ability, and it's likely that you happened to encounter it during the handover of the system change. Now, let's choose a host of Fangyuan server system as the battlefield, do you dare to compete? ”

Under the "live", Condor was clearly unwilling to back down, so after setting some conditions, he accepted Richie Screnta's invitation, and the two of them officially fought against Maimandi - Condor was the spear of the attack, and Rich Skrenda was the shield of the defense.

After Tang Huan got the news, he felt quite funny, but he didn't stop Rich Screnta's approach, the quality of Guy Personality is too important for people who are in charge of themselves, and it is also a rare opportunity for his cheap apprentice to practice his skills through actual combat.

In addition, Tang Huan also hopes to catch this lawless hacker - Nima, now that there are so many telecommunications service providers in the United States, there are seven local Bell companies alone, why are you only eyeing Pacific Telecom. Now that everyone has formed a bond, it is time to talk about the Tao.

"How's it going?" Tang Huan asked in a relaxed tone on the phone.

"Not a lot, but not too little." Rich Skrenta replied as a teenager, "According to my judgment, this hacker with the ID Condor should be about my age, and his location is most likely in Los Angeles." I've set up the 'honeypot', it's up to the other party's actions. ”

Los Angeles is one of the top three metropolises in the United States, and it would be an exaggeration to find a person in this range.

Tang Huan didn't say anything, just reminded: "Remember, you are not fighting alone. There is a strong backing behind it, and whatever resources are needed, just bring it up. ”

Rich Skrenta finally couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and said quickly: "I've used the latest computer security research results, and Condor, although arrogant, gives me the feeling of watching an active guinea pig arch around. ”

"You're in a good state of mind." After Tang Huan encouraged his disciple for a few words, he hung up the phone and asked John Chambers, who walked in with a grim face, "What's going on?" ”

"Negatively affected by the information leakage accident of Pacific Telecom, which makes extensive use of Fangyuan servers, we are out of the competition for orders for computer systems on the stock exchange." John Chambers replied in a heavy tone.

After listening to the other party's explanation, Tang Huan smiled coldly, "It's not a big deal, we don't want this order, it's a long time coming, wait and see!" (To be continued.) )