Chapter 140: Hackers, White Customers, and Gray Customers
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At that time, people believed that computers were the most perfect computing machines, and no one ever thought that it still had vulnerabilities. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info but
Now, not only did someone think of it, but also proved the existence of a loophole with extremely rigorous logical arguments! In an instant, everyone felt that their original sense of the computer had collapsed......
Zhu Zhonghua said here with a smug expression, "The argument process I wrote back then may not seem like much now, but in that era, it was a shocking thing. ”
Liu Fang looked at Zhu Zhonghua with awe, his current mood is similar to those at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, facing the world's first person to discover a computer vulnerability, Liu Fang's admiration is difficult to describe in words.
"Looking back now, I don't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, because from that moment on, it was announced that a new group was born in the world, and this group was hackers, and I was like Pandora who opened a magic box, bringing countless negative effects to the world."
Liu Fang heard this and persuaded very seriously: "Grandpa Zhu, you can't say that, although hackers have caused harm to the world, it is precisely because of the promotion of hackers that computer technology can continue to make progress, which can be called the catfish effect, which is the same as the promotion effect of war on human science and technology." ”
Zhu Zhonghua laughed: "You kid, you actually enlightened me." ”
Liu Fang asked respectfully, "Grandpa Zhu, what happened?" ”
Zhu Zhonghua smiled: "Later, some people attacked me, saying that I was a demon, and some people praised me, saying that I was a pioneer in a new field, and soon after, MIT opened a computer security major, and they wanted to hire me as a professor of this major, but I refused." ”
"Why would you say no?"
"Because after ten years of traveling, my personality has become very loose and I am not suitable for this job."
"Why did you return to China?"
Zhu Zhonghua fell into memory when he heard this, and only after a long time did he tell the reason.
After turning down an invitation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zhu Zhonghua embarked on another journey of travel, and a few months later, he arrived at Harvard University, where he met several people.
The men, all college students with a passion for computer technology, gathered at a bar and had a drink and talked about system vulnerabilities.
Zhu Zhonghua didn't care much about this, but listening to it, he suddenly found that the computer technology of these people was very powerful, even if it was not as good as himself, it was not too much.
Zhu Zhonghua felt a little happy to see the hunt, and took the initiative to join the discussion. Soon, he used his profound knowledge to impress the young men, and became good friends with them.
At that time, these young people were divided into two camps, one of which advocated the use of hacking technology to maintain the security of the computer world, and the other group advocated the promotion of computer technology through technology sharing.
Both sides had good intentions, but they were both stubborn, arguing over their own ideas, and finally they asked Zhu Zhonghua, the most powerful person, to make a judgment.
Zhu Zhonghua is a very casual person, he doesn't want to get involved in this kind of senseless dispute, and at the same time he doesn't want to offend either side of the two sides, and finally he jokingly said: "Without the test of practice, no one can be sure whose choice is right, you might as well practice it yourself, maybe you can get the answer in this way." ”
Both sides felt that this made sense, so they immediately decided to follow Zhu Zhonghua's words. The leader of one of the factions happened to be wearing a white baseball cap, so they called their group the White Hat Association, which later evolved into the White Hat Association.
The leader of the other side wears a black top hat and calls his group the Black Hat Society, which later evolves into a hacker group.
After the two sides confirmed the name of their own group, they invited Zhu Zhonghua to join their side, how could Zhu Zhonghua agree? In order to get rid of the entanglement, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the gray big-brimmed hat on his head, and said jokingly: "You have all formed your own group, and I will also form one, since I wear a gray hat, then I will call it a gray hat." ”
Eventually, the Grey Hats evolved into the Grey Customers.
In fact, in the beginning, hackers refer to groups that specialize in providing technology sharing, and their main purpose is to promote computer technology and promote the development of computer technology. It was only later that people gradually misunderstood because of the mixed members of the group, and in the end, hackers became a derogatory term.
As for the white customers, they have always regarded maintaining computer security as their primary responsibility from beginning to end. After the nature of hackers changed, white customers became natural enemies with them. Through the platform of the computer, the two sides have been constantly fighting wits and courage, and they are still fighting endlessly.
As for the Greys, they are somewhere in between, they are good and bad, good and evil, they seek freedom, and for the sake of freedom they can wreak havoc; At the same time, they also pursue justice, and for the sake of justice, they can be desperate to fight everyone else, which seems to be a contradictory collection.
Liu Fang didn't expect the three major groups in the computer industry to come in this way, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "I really can't imagine that the three major groups in the computer industry were originally born in a small bar, and they were born in this way." ”
Zhu Zhonghua sighed: "In the final analysis, in fact, the three groups can essentially be called hackers, because the technology they use is basically the same, all of them are related to the defects of the computer, which is the closest to the definition of hackers, as for where the three groups will eventually go, it is unknown." ”
"Grandpa Zhu, how did you come to Huaguo later?"
"This has to start with the social environment in the United States at that time."
In 1968, the United States was at war with Vietnam, and the trauma caused by the Vietnam War to American society was extremely great, and the whole society fell into confusion and degeneration.
Young people, in particular, are not doing their jobs all day, and alcoholism, abuse, and smoking have become synonymous with young people, so they are called the "Beat Generation" by other Americans.
Zhu Zhonghua spent nearly a year at Harvard, during which time he met many degenerate college students, and he was very disappointed by this. It was at this time that the red ideology of the East invaded the United States, and many Americans took the ideas of the great men of the East as their spiritual food, and Zhu Zhonghua was no exception.
After coming into contact with the red ideology, Zhu Zhonghua was completely fascinated, and he remembered that his hometown was in China, although his parents were no longer there, but there may still be relatives in his hometown.
Of course, he is full of yearning for China, feels that it is his home, and he is ready to go back to serve the motherland.