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The news from the capital is that there is a problem in the software division of the PCFANS club.

A programmer belonging to PCFANS, because he was bored and had recently been seriously pirated against Thunderbolt Antivirus, was inspired to write a logic bomb and load it into the new version of Thunderbolt Baby's antivirus beta because he was bored and had recently committed serious piracy to Thunderbolt Baby's antivirus software.

This beta version of the software is distributed to netizens free of charge through the network download link, which is used to solicit opinions for later improvement in order to launch the official version.

The problem is that every time PCFANS releases a new antivirus version, it is immediately picked up by several competitors, and then cracked and analyzed to find out where their lead lies, and then use their own antivirus improvements as an important reference.

This time, the software personnel of several companies coincidentally discovered that the beta version of the PCFANS club was actually loaded with logic bombs!

About the use of logic bombs, facts . Among the anti-virus software companies, there is a criminal record.

In the middle of 1997, Xinyuan, Ruixing, Jing. Wei and five other computer anti-virus manufacturers held a joint press conference in Beijing, claiming that the latest version of the anti-virus software launched by Jiangmin New Technology Co., Ltd. contained logic bombs, that is, under certain conditions, the software would damage the user's computer system, resulting in data loss and inability to boot.

As soon as the news is released, it is immediately in the society. After the final appraisal, the Beijing Computer Security Supervision Department determined that Jiangmin Company had violated the regulations on the security protection of computer information systems, and that it was intentional to input harmful data and endanger the security of information systems, and punished Jiangmin Company in accordance with the law. Jiangmin's excessively defensive measures have also made many software manufacturers choose to be legal and rational in their efforts to crack down on piracy.

This time the PCFANS club was facing a crisis with the then Jiangmin Company. Run in the same groove.

A logic bomb in a computer is one in which a specific logical condition is met. When the program is triggered, it causes computer data loss, the computer cannot boot from the hard disk or floppy disk, and even paralyzes the entire system, and appears the false phenomenon of physical damage.

Logic bombs are triggered when the symptoms are tied with the action of certain viruses. If the results are similar, it will cause collateral disasters to society. In contrast to viruses, it emphasizes the destructive effect itself, while the program that implements the destructive is not contagious.

At that time, Jiang Mingong. In the words of the company, the logic bomb was triggered by the fact that for several months, a self-proclaimed independent Internet web page, the Poison Islands Forum, ignored international standards for the protection of intellectual property rights, and openly downloaded the decryption tools of major domestic antivirus software, including KV300, which had led to the resurgence of piracy activities that had been somewhat curtailed. In order to stop the scourge of piracy, Jiangmin Company did not hesitate to fight with its modest efforts.

The issues involved are complex because the Poison Island Forum is a free domain name on the Internet that is set up on the Internet through the servers of one company in the United States, and through that domain name it is automatically connected to the free homepages of the other two companies.

However, judging from the objective effect of Jiangmin's actions in this case, Jiangmin Company was not able to pursue the owner of the island and the producer and disseminator of pirated tools, but the users of pirated tools. In doing so, there may be harm to the end users among the users of pirated tools, as well as to resellers who further produce and distribute pirated software among the users of pirated tools.

In China, software manufacturers need to be cautious if they target end users who use pirated software. Leaving aside the question of whether a software manufacturer can act as a law enforcer on its own, a software manufacturer whose interests have been infringed can take self-protection measures, but cannot play the role of a law enforcer.

At that time, one of the debates about Jiangmin's installation of a logic bomb was whether Jiangmin's behavior was a logic bomb.

At that time, Jiangmin Company also explained why it wanted to set up logic bombs, saying that it had added a "logic lock" program with highly intelligent logic judgment to KV300. The operation mechanism of this program is that the pirate uses the decryption key provided by the Poison Island Forum to copy the pirated disk, and when the computer is running, the strict logical judgment program with "logical lock" can accurately identify the pirated disk, start it immediately, and lock the pirate's computer hard disk, forcing the computer to stop working, and the hard disk data is temporarily unusable.

Therefore, Jiangmin Company believes that this "logical lock" with highly intelligent logical judgment conditions does not destroy the hard disk data, and the pirated user only needs to admit the piracy to the headquarters of Jiangmin New Technology Co., Ltd., and Jiangmin Company registers with the relevant departments for the record, which is conducive to tracing the piracy den, and can obtain the unlocking conditions and resume the hard disk work.

At that time, Jiangmin Company also put forward the theory of "active logic lock" and "passive logic lock". After the software is stolen by the "thief", once the "thief" uses the software, the "active logic lock" immediately locks the computer's storage, just like the "thief" is locked in the house, and only the copyright owner can unlock it with the "key". If the "thief" loves face, he can only self-destruct the "door" to unlock it.

However, this has caused great indignation among many users who take the use of pirated software for granted, and some people have suggested that there is no problem in installing security doors in every household. However, if someone electrifies the security door, or if the ground floor residents install an anti-theft power grid on the fence of their own yard, it can cause serious problems.

First, the installer of the electrified security door or the fence grid is not authorized to carry out such an act that may endanger public safety. Second, the innocent may be victimized. Thirdly, even if a thief is electrocuted, on the one hand, the thief does not deserve to die, and on the other hand, the "installer" himself has no right to enforce the law on behalf of law enforcement agencies. Fourth, taking a step back, even if a person who dies by electric shock is indeed "guilty of ten thousand deaths" in accordance with the law, the installer has no right to lynch him to death, which is the minimum requirement of a legal society.

Therefore, as the installer of the logic bomb, the legal responsibility that Jiangmin Company should bear is obvious.

The reason for the controversy and disagreement between the relevant circles in China in the understanding of the Jiangmin Company's logic bomb case lies in how to understand the conflict between social public order and the interests of copyright owners, and how to deal with the conflict between the two.

In general, the basic role of copyright law is to maintain a balance between the rights of authors and other copyright holders and the interests of the public at large, in particular education, research and access to information.

A society should maintain normal public order, which is an important part of the public interest and is also the minimum condition for the healthy development of the country and for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Compared with the copyright rights and interests of a person or a certain unit, the former is a public interest, and the latter is a private interest. The question is not whether private interests should be safeguarded, but rather that the effect of protecting private interests should not and should not be allowed to harm the public interest.

Assuming that software copyright owners learn from Jiang Min's practice and set up logic bombs in their software in order to protect their copyrights, then what is the minimum security of the computer information system? What normal public order is there in society? What normal social management order does the state have?

This time, the programmers of the PCFANS club, because of the addition of logic bombs in the beta version and were discovered by several anti-virus software companies, immediately caused a lot of discussion in the society, and several companies filed a lawsuit, saying that the PCFANS club installed logic bombs in the beta version of the software, which posed a great threat to the security of public information.

Fan Ting has been very troubled by this matter recently, so she asked Fan Wuxian how this matter should be resolved?

Fan Wuxi also scratched his head after hearing this, but obviously this kind of thing can't make trouble, at most it's just a few companies to hype, and he still does what he wants, but the software definitely can't install logic bombs.

"Where's that programmer now? I should have asked about the situation before I could make a decision. After thinking about it, Fan Wuxian felt that the bell still needed to be tied to the bell, and it was difficult to deal with it if he didn't understand the first-hand information.

"He is an employee of our company abroad, and now he lives in Malaysia, and that part of the program is transmitted through the network, and then the programmers on the company's side link it according to the module." Fan Ting explained to Fan Wuxi.

"Oh, people are abroad-" Fan Wuxi patted his head, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly had an idea, "Ha, I have a way to do this!" ”

"There's a way so soon?" Fan Ting suddenly felt very stunned, and Fan's disease-free head was too easy to use, right?

This matter has a greater impact on the PCFANS club, as for the issue of economic compensation, it is negligible, according to the current laws in China, at most it is a fine of a few thousand yuan, and it is not trivial at all. The biggest problem is the damage to reputation, which is the most critical.

PCFANS club for so many years, there has never been such a disgusting thing, actually caught by a competitor, and appealed to the court, this matter is the most humiliating, if you win the case, it doesn't matter, if you lose the case, but also fall to be fined, it will be a big shame.

At least everyone will use that incident as a negative teaching material, and after meeting friends, they will inevitably say the last sentence, look, even the PCFANS club is unreliable, logic bombs! In the future, everyone should use some foreign antivirus software, at least people pay more attention to professional ethics!

Whether it is for Fan Ting or for Fan Wuxi, this kind of thing cannot happen under any circumstances!

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