Wang Lian is an overseas Chinese, his ancestral home is Shanxi, China, his ancestors came to San Francisco more than 100 years ago to pan for gold, and his generation is already the fourth generation, and he is almost a pure American. However, because his elders have never forgotten their homeland, and in an environment where there are no outsiders, they only speak Chinese, Wang Lian's Chinese education is also very good, at least not as absurd as some acting stars, even Yue Fei and Li Shimin do not know who they are.

Wang Lian was born in 1955 and is 45 years old this year, and when he was six years old, that is, in 1961, he followed his father, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to witness the birth of the first subsystem computer at the world's best polytechnic university.

Since then, Wang Lian has stepped into the world of computers.

In December 1969, while chatting with his father in California, Wang Lian happened to hear that the ARPA network was put into operation. At only fourteen years old, he realized with a keen sense that this would mean a new era.

In fact, just as Wang Lian thought, the operation of the ARPA network in the United States, the predecessor of INTE, symbolizes the rise of the world's computer network. This technology has led to fundamental changes in the concept, structure, and design of computer networks.

And fourteen-year-old Wang Lian also began to plunge into the online world from this time.

Four years later, in order to get in touch with network technology, Wang Lian went against his father's will, gave up the opportunity to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and officially joined the United States at the age of eighteen and became a member of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, thus becoming one of the most cutting-edge figures in network technology.

Five years later, at the age of 23, Wang Lian left the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to become a freelance software engineer.

Although he withdrew from the United States, Wang Lian did not withdraw from the online world.

On the contrary, in the thirteen years from 1978 to 1990, Wang Lian stood at the top and forefront of the network world, leading the trend of the entire network world -- he was the only person in the world who participated in the formulation of the TCP/IP architecture and the OSI architecture of the International Organization for Standardization.

In 1990, at the age of 35, Wang Lian was invited to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this year, he discovered four extremely gifted students in computer science, the oldest of whom was only seventeen years old and the youngest only fifteen years old.

On a whim, Wang Lian led the four students to found the Mask Island, which was later regarded as a spiritual source by hackers all over the world.

Ten years have passed, Wang Lian is forty-five years old and has become a solid middle-aged man, and the four students who came with him have all grown up, even the youngest admin is twenty-five years old, and it is said that he has a good girlfriend.

It's not just about age, it's about other things, it's changed a lot.

At the beginning of Mask Island, all the hacking software and the writers of hacking articles were Wang Lian himself. But since the third year, the youngest and most computer-gifted admin has been involved in the release of the first hacking software for the first time. After another two years, all four students began to have their works released.

Since 1997, with the growth of students and the addition of other top hackers, Wang Lian has never released a single hacking software or written a hacking article.

It's not that Wang Lian has lost his passion for computer technology, but because he realizes that he is no longer as good as his students, and even the hackers who joined later.

However, for all this, Wang Lian did not feel the slightest displeasure, he was a person who wanted to be open.

He is forty-five years old, and it is the age of youth.

Whenever he sees a student researching a new hacking software or writing a new hacking article, Wang Lian's joy and satisfaction are no worse than when he did these things himself.

This day is the New Year's Day of the year 2000, the year of the thousand years, the legendary world destruction, and it is also the day when the Mask Island releases new works every year.

While the world's boring people are partying in the streets for the fireworks of the millennium, hackers all over the world are staying in front of their computers, waiting for the release of the new work on Mask Island.

Like every year's New Year's Day, Wang Lian seemed very happy on this day. He happily summoned four of his students to his study and cooked a few authentic Hunan dishes for them (Wang Lian was never married in his life, so he had no wife to cook for him).

After everything was arranged, Wang Lian happily put down his apron, sat on the chair, patted the edge of the table with a smile, and said, "Hurry up and eat, and after eating, go and release the results of your hard work for a year." You have to hurry up, you know, there are hundreds of thousands of hackers around the world waiting for your work. ”

When Wang Lian just finished saying this, he suddenly noticed that several of his students did not seem to be in high spirits. He looked at them a little strangely, smiled and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Are you so afraid of spicy? I put a lot less chili this year than last year. ”

The four students looked at each other for a while, and then all looked at the youngest admin.

This twenty-five-year-old Jewish-American young man, with short brown hair and dark blue glasses, feels unfathomable despite his youth.

When he realized that his three senior brothers were all looking at him, the admin took a deep breath, and then raised his head to look at Wang Lian deeply.

Wang Lian was touched by the admin's unprecedentedly serious eyes, and he began to realize that something might be wrong.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Wang Lian asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The admin blinked slowly, hesitated slightly, and finally spoke, "Teacher, we have something to tell you." ”

The corners of Wang Lian's mouth trembled slightly, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and unconsciously wiped his hands with a napkin, "Say it." ”

"We're going to release a hacking software called Genesis tonight, which is a mutable multi-layered virus ......"

When admin said this, Wang Lian immediately interrupted him, "You mean to say that this hacking software itself is a virus?" ”

"Yes." admin nodded, and then continued, "To put it simply, on the surface, it is just a hacking software, but in fact it is indeed a piece of hacking software, it is the most advanced brute force cracking tool at present, and it is also the most convenient and foolish software. Even if you're just a tech bird, as long as you follow our instructions, you have a good chance of stealing someone else's password. At the same time, however, the people who use it, as well as the computers that have been attacked by it, will plant the viruses we include in this hacking software in its memory, motherboard, and hard drive. It's a mutable multi-layered virus, and no one in the world can completely unravel it except our Mask Island. ”

Wang Lian finally knew why the atmosphere suddenly became so solemn tonight, and he knew that his four students were no longer the four innocent and cute children who couldn't lift their spirits except computer technology.

They are already adults, and they already have something as complex in their minds as the vast majority of adults in this world.

Wang Lian's expression was stunned for a while, and then he asked, "What is the function of this virus?" ”

"Every computer it passes through will be implanted with a bot program and become a zombie computer completely controlled by us."

"What do you want?" Wang Lian glanced around at the four students, "Each of you now has an annual salary of more than one million, drives a good car, lives in a reading villa, holds a golf membership card, has four months of paid vacation every year, your boss relies on you, your colleagues envy you, and your subordinates respect you." You young people are ambitious, high-spirited, and promising, and you already have what others dream of. You guys...... What more do you want?"

The admin lowered his head and was silent for a while, then slowly raised his head and looked at Wang Lian with a blazing and paranoid light in his eyes, "We want the whole world." ”

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