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Chapter 314 Cypherpunk

The decoration in the Internet café is very luxurious, but the price is not cheap, several times more expensive than surfing the Internet at home. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info (") and if it is a private room, there is also the bottom consumption.

After Lin Hong came in, he had been observing carefully.

He came here because he felt that this model might work in China, because it was too expensive to use the Internet at home in the future, and if he could gather it, he would also build such a place, and then charge by the hour, which should be very marketable.

The reason why Lin Hong is so sure is that he remembers the popularity of game consoles in China before.

Internet cafes have developed relatively mature in the United States, and there is a special billing system for Internet access, which is monitored through the local area network, and the Internet time can be accurate to the second.

Lin Hong thought about it for a while, and felt that it was not difficult to implement this software, using a computer as a server, and then running a client in other computers, and after booting, just establish a connection with the server.

Compared with the Internet speed in the United States and China, it is like the comparison between the mountain trail and the highway, Lin Hong has been on the turtle speed network in China for so long, and when he came to the United States, he can finally experience the pleasure of the information highway.

Lin Hong first downloaded a bit messenger client directly to the Internet, which almost became his fixed habit. Only by using Bit Messenger as a proxy for network access, he will do something more secretive, otherwise he is usually like an ordinary user, just looking at the news and browsing the web.

Lin Hong tried to log in to the forum of Tricolor Fire Technology, and found that the network speed was a little slow, and it took half a day to open the page.

At this time, the registered users of Tricolor Fire BBS have reached more than 2,000 people, and the number of active users online every day is about hundreds, but there is only one server used to support these people. This kind of support capability is not possible with other platforms before, and only the optimized Linux server platform can do it. Templar

When Lin Hong was in China, due to the slow Internet speed, he rarely visited foreign hacker forums, because the long-term connection was easy to be noticed by the webmaster.

Once here, he began to let go and focus on some of the things that had been happening in the hacking community lately.

The two computers in the box were placed face to face, Phyllis sat next to her and browsed the web boringly for a while before continuing, she sat opposite Lin Hong, simply propped up her chin, and looked at Lin Hong blankly, with tenderness in her eyes, a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she didn't know what to think again.

Over the years, there have been many major events in the hacking community, such as the arrest of Kevin Mitnick, which shook the entire hacking community, and there are already some of his supporters planning to protest to the government authorities and demand Kevin's release. They contacted and organized themselves through Bit Messenger to get people's attention by taking actions such as hacking some of the government websites, replacing the pages with images with the slogan "Free Kevin".

Lin Hong was noncommittal about such behavior, but he was sure that Kevin would certainly not be released so easily, even though he did little evil and did not use his hacking skills for his own benefit.

Earlier, a teenage hacker group in New York called the "Master of Deception" was convicted of hacking into the computers of AT&T, Bank of America and the National Security Agency.

Lin Hong noticed that the United States has begun to increase its crackdown on computer crime year by year, and the staff of the FBI's cybercrime department has also begun to develop professionally, and many former white-hat hackers have been recruited into these departments.

However, with the development of the Internet and computer software and hardware, hackers are more and more useful, and the constraints of the law have no effect on these people who like to explore new things and challenge authority.

In addition to some old hacker groups still active on the Internet, Lin Hong also noticed that a group called "cypherpunk" has gradually emerged in recent years, and their activities are not intended to be hidden from the outside world, but are in a semi-public state. (《》)

Lin Hong became interested in the loose nonprofit organization because he saw in posts that some people said that the members of this organization came from various fields, such as genius computer hackers, creative college math professors, fanatical liberal advocates, iconoclastic cryptographers, and various other avant-garde people.

So, Lin Hong registered a new account and posted a post on a popular BBS, asking for a detailed introduction to the "cypherpunk" organization.

It didn't take long for someone to reply, and he gave a link in the reply.

Lin Hong clicked on this link and found that it was a search link, which means that this link is not a specific introduction page of the cypherpunk organization, but a search list of search websites, and the keyword used is "cypherpunk".

Lin Hong is no stranger to search websites, because such services have already appeared during this period, such as Yahoo Search, as well as JumpStation, etc.

However, Lin Hong found that he had not seen this search website before, and he took a look at the introduction of this website by the way, and found that this website called "backrub" is an experimental personal website, and the creator is larrypage.

Lin Hong found a few web pages from the result list to read, and found that the first few web pages were exactly what he was looking for. This situation made him very impressed with this backrub site, because he had used other search sites before, and it usually took a long time to find what he wanted to see.

After reading a few articles or posts about the "cypherpunk" group, he got a more systematic understanding of the group.

This organization was established in the summer of 1992 to promote the application and development of cryptographic encryption algorithms in the private sector.

Before the rise of the Internet, the key technology of encryption had been monopolized by the military, and ordinary people had no access to these technologies.

Cypherpunk groups are trying to break this monopoly, they are dissatisfied with the military taking taxpayers' money to research encryption technology, but in the end they do not give back to the private sector at all, and the technology developed by the National Security Agency is almost never used by the people.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, the guilds had a monopoly on information, and if someone outside the guild wanted to enter the market, the rulers would send someone to destroy the goods of the other party and expel them. However, the rise of printing broke the monopoly of guilds, because people could publish the technology of making goods in the Nine Astronomy, and the rise of astronomy gradually broke these monopolies, because these technologies could be easily published or sold through the Internet.

The cypherpunk group argues that just as the printing press weakened the power of medieval guilds and changed the power structure of society, cryptography will fundamentally change the nature of corporations and the nature of government interference in economic transactions.

Their ultimate goal is to invent a secure and anonymous method of online transactions, in which crypto-anarchy and the emerging information market are united, creating a liquid market for all the material that can be put into text and pictures, which can be traded freely.

As soon as Cypherpunk was formed, it was joined by a large number of members who supported the organization in a variety of ways. For example, some people "liberate" them from copyright restrictions by searching for academic papers on cryptography directly in expensive and hard-to-find journals, scanning them with a computer, and then posting them anonymously on the Internet.

After Lin Hong saw their introduction, he became interested in their organization, because many of their ideas and ideas coincided with Lin Hong.

In fact, the implementation mechanism of Bit Messenger largely reflects the idea of cypherpunk organizations, which is why they have designated Bit Messenger as an official communication tool.

Lin Hong finally saw a brief news from a post - on August 22, the cypherpunk group will hold a monthly meeting in New York, where more than a dozen core members of the organization will participate, and other people from all walks of life will be in attendance, and everyone who is interested in their cause is welcome.

Cypherpunks also suggested that attendees choose to attend anonymously, that attendees wear black suits, and that masks are provided when entering the venue.

Of course, this is for those who are reluctant to reveal their identities, and in reality, many people don't care about revealing their identities.

The topic of the conference was mainly to discuss how to achieve true "anonymity" on the Internet.

"No. 22...... It's tomorrow. ”

Lin Hong became interested in this meeting, he thought about it for a while, and finally decided to go over and have a look, after all, the time and place were just satisfied, and he didn't need to spend much time in the past.

Lin Hong looked at the time at this time and found that it had been more than an hour unconsciously, so he didn't continue. Looking up at Phyllis, he saw that the other party's eyes were looking at him without blinking.

"I'm sorry, I forgot the time as soon as I went online." Lin Hong said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter, you can go on as long as you want, I'll wait for you."

Lin Hong erased his Internet records, deleted the bit messenger, and then stood up: "It's not too early, I'll send you back first." ”

The two walked out of the Internet café together, Lin Hong stopped a taxi, and was about to let her go in first, but suddenly Phyllis gently pulled the placket.

"Uncle Stone......"

"What's wrong?" Lin Hong turned around and asked.

Phyllis blushed on her toes, put her mouth to Lin Hong's ear, and said softly, "Today, I'll stay with you." ”