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Computer software is, by its very nature, data. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to keep some important data confidential, the process of encryption is essential.

Like most things, encryption has a particularly antithetical aspect – decryption.

Since the dawn of computer software, the process of encrypting and secreting the software has never stopped. Especially after the commercialization of software, the software has a registered version and an unregistered version, and if you want to use all the functions of commercial software, you must pay for the registration code of the software merchant to activate all the functions.

Breaking the limitations of these software has become a new challenge and interest for hackers.

Hackers are free and open, while commercial software is the opposite, they want to gain benefits through the software, and set up various obstacles in the software, such as encrypting and locking data, limiting the functionality of normal software, limiting the time to use the software for free, and must be unlocked and activated through the purchase of a registration code.

Some hackers despise this kind of copper-smelling behavior, they write code, communicate and share it for free, but some merchants use it to sell it for money, and the function is not even as good as the original, they disdain and protest against it.

As a result, the first software crackers appeared, and they even formed alliances or organizations to specialize in software cracking.

There are also some hackers who pursue the ultimate in technology and are extremely fanatical, they are full of infinite curiosity and desire for all kinds of technologies, and they reject from the bottom of their hearts that the software they use is an unknown black box, and they try their best to figure out what kind of content is hidden in it, how the software author actually achieved this blockade, and what technology was used...... And so on and so forth.

They regard the act of cracking as their own technical pursuit and challenge, and they are completely immersed in it.

Of course, there are also some people who just want to satisfy their own needs, so as to liberate some hidden functions in the software. For example, Lin Hong was like this back then, he implanted his own program by cracking the ROM in the Texas Instruments calculator. and improve it.

Although the purpose of cracking is different, they all have the same goal, they are all against commercial software vendors, and they all hate them.

However, this situation is not at all insignificant for hackers, and challenging authority and opposing power has always been something they are after. The stronger the opponent, the more challenging and rewarding they feel.

Cracking organizations have developed very well in foreign countries, and have a very long history, and have formed many very strict cracking organizations, which have a very high prestige in the industry, and even major universities and companies will be proud of this identity and highly respected.

Lin Hong was the first to come into contact with the cracking of the game. It was Gu Wei who went to Beij to study in high school and cracked the market underground in Zhongguancun. At that time, Gu Wei showed him the technique that deeply shocked him. That's all there is to it. It was also Gu Wei who talked to him.

But this is only limited to the game console, computer software, the development of domestic relatively late, although after so many years, there are gradually some talents in this area, but according to what Lin Hong has learned, the level of the civil in this area is still very low, the real masters, or in the major universities and military research institutions.

Later in the United States. I also came into contact with some members of these cracking organizations, and from their mouths, I had a general understanding of these organizations abroad. The details are not very clear.

Now, what he has learned about the situation at the "Digital Entertainment Publishing Company" in Kowloon Hall is somewhat beyond his previous understanding, and it seems that they are not simply printing pirated CDs. There seems to be a whole process.

Today, Lin Hong did not continue to follow the Tyrannosaurus rex, but came to the "Digital Entertainment Publishing Company" alone, and he wanted to know more about this situation.

The person in charge of this company is called Guang Yongyuan, who is in his thirties. Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, he doesn't look like a gang member at all, but like a teacher at a school.

Lin Hong had talked to him before, and it was very speculative, after all, the two of them both knew technology and had a common language.

Lin Hong learned that Guang Yongyuan was not a Xiangg person, but ran away from Guang Z a few years ago because he offended someone he couldn't afford to provoke. After the rise of the Nine Dragon Hall, a large part of the people who ran away from the mainland became the gang of the Nine Dragon Hall in order to seek refuge, and Guang Yongyuan was no exception.

Although he is only a scholar, the Kowloon Tang family has a big business, so naturally there is no shortage of such positions.

Guang Yongyuan originally studied mathematics, then taught himself computers, and eventually became the head of the company by accident.

Guang Yongyuan was not surprised by Lin Hong's arrival, after all, Lin Hong had greeted him before and said that he might come to visit the company when he had time.

Guang Yongyuan also has some understanding of his psychology, which is basically a common problem of technicians, seeing things related to technology, if you don't figure it out, your heart is like something scratching, very uncomfortable.

The reason why he became an employee of this company in the first place was because of this kind of psychology.

Lin Hong's identity is relatively special, even the tyrannosaurus is very polite to him, Guang Yongyuan naturally does not dare to slack off, as soon as Lin Hong arrives, he puts down all the work at hand, personally accompanies him, and introduces him to the situation of the entire company.

"Brother Guangda, it won't affect your work, right?" Lin Hong asked a little embarrassed.

Guang Yongyuan said indifferently: "Don't get in the way, I don't have much to do today." In addition, it is said that it is a company, but in fact, there is nothing to see, and we will be able to read it soon. ”

This company is involved in a wide range of fields, music, film and television, novels, comics, games, ...... And so on.

"Brother Guangda, I won't go to other departments, just go to the computer game department, I'm just interested in cracking this piece." In order to save time, Lin Hong said bluntly.

"Okay, let's go to the computer game department."

Guang Yongyuan directly took Lin Hong to the fifth floor of the building.

The location of their company is a 10-story office building, which is quite magnificent, and the workplace is also well decorated and clean, which is very modern, no different from other IT companies.

Along the way, Guang Yongyuan was not idle, and gave Lin Hong a detailed introduction to the development history and current situation of foreign cracking organizations.

Although Lin Hong had some understanding before, compared to Guang Yongyuan, the gap between the two was like the difference between heaven and earth.

As an industry insider, Guang Yongyuan not only knows everything about the well-known things in the industry, but also knows some insider information that others simply don't know. For the common cracked commercial software on the market, no matter which Lin Hong says, he can tell the corresponding cracker information and make corresponding evaluations.

As they chatted, they talked about one of the most mysterious hackers in the field of cracking, ESSI.

There are four most prestigious organizations in the cracking circle, and the one that is considered the strongest by all crackers is Core.

Core is an abbreviation of a few words that means "reverse engineering challenger" in Chinese. It didn't take long to be born, but it quickly gained unanimous recognition from everyone.

The first time the Core organization appeared in front of everyone was after Microsoft released the Windows 95 operating system. At that time, hackers around the world were cracking it as soon as possible, hoping to be the first to defeat the system.

Eventually, the title was acquired by a mysterious hacker named ESSI, who is the founder of Core.

Since then, Core has become an evergreen in the cracking industry, and they have released not many works, but each one is a classic, and their opponents are all giants in the IT world, including Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Apple, ......

This group is very secretive and does not reveal any of its private information to the outside world at all.

Guang Yongyuan said to Lin Hong: "Everyone thinks that ESSI is an American, but I don't think so, I think he is most likely a Chinese, or at least Chinese." ”

Lin Hong couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and looked at Guang Yongyuan with puzzled eyes.

A smile appeared on Guang Yongyuan's face, quite proud: "I have carefully studied all of ESSI's works, including those released when he was not famous in the early days, and finally made a very interesting discovery. One of them he is aimed at. The crack of this software is compiled with the Chinese version of vc++ 4.0. ”

This discovery was discovered by Guang Yongyuan by accident. He had only just learned to crack it at the time, so he found some software cracked by his predecessors to operate it step by step and learn their cracking journey.

The acdsee software is notoriously difficult to crack, the software itself is very high-tech, and it is naturally unambiguous in terms of encryption, and it has always been regarded as a benchmark for challenges by industry insiders.

When Guang Yongyuan was researching a cracked version, he accidentally found that the cracker was ESSI, and, judging from some of its features, the compiler of this compilation and cracking software turned out to be the vc++4.0 Chinese version.

What does this mean?

Although the evidence found by Hiro is not sufficient, mastery of English is an essential skill for technicians, and in general, if you are not very familiar with a language, you will not choose a language other than your mother tongue.

Hearing this news, Lin Hong also felt a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing strange. As long as the external environment and conditions are ripe, China has always had no shortage of smart people, even world-class masters.

They chatted all the way to the computer game cracking department. (To be continued)