There are many people who equate geeks with hackers, but there is a certain difference between the two.

The word geek comes from the American slang term geek, which originally refers to a person who has a fanatical interest in one or several specific fields and invests a lot of time in research.

But now, especially after the rise of a group of Silicon Valley bigwigs such as Steve Jobs and Gates, the word geek has also been given a new meaning, and it has begun to be labeled more as free, creative and out-of-the-box.

Yes, geeks are such a group of people, they are adventurers on the Internet, hardware enthusiasts, hackers, communication enthusiasts, tech nerds, programmers, engineers......

"To put it simply, anyone who can join the 01 guerrillas as long as it fits our ethos," Philip said, "Of course, the vast majority of people who join are still computer-related, although we'd always like girls to join us in cheerleaders or dancers." ”

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"We have our own secret forum, with self-made instant messaging software, on which we usually discuss some technical problems, and you can also put the problems you encounter on it and wait for someone to answer it, or simply show off your skills, and the people on it are very good."

"Is Edward one of you?" Zhang Heng asked.

"No, Edward...... Not our people. The ponytail man said.

Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.

"About a year ago, Edward hacked into our forum, and we built a website together." Speaking of this, Valdo still looked surprised.

"Is it difficult?"

"Well, it's not too difficult, it's still a little easier than hacking into the defense system." "The most important thing is that he did it quietly, and if it wasn't for the message he left us afterwards, we wouldn't have known he was there." ”

"What's the message?"

"In the beginning, it was just something like a greeting, you know, hackers are low-key, but in fact, many of them are a group of guys who are eager to pay attention, especially the more difficult to achieve goals and difficult places to enter, they will always be tempted to leave something after entering, for example, I know that there is a guy who sneaked into the human resources system of the telecom giant SFR and sent a little red flower to every employee who was still working overtime that night in SFR."

"Huh."

"It's the same with that guy, he left a pixel image of Pac-Man, but it's very small, in the bottom right corner of the homepage, you can't see it if you don't look closely, anyway, it was our first encounter with Edward, and then we reworked the firewall and encryption system, but the guy managed to hack in."

"Are you angry?"

The ponytail man pushed his glasses, "Angry? No, no, no, it was like a fun game for us, and we enjoyed playing against that guy, so we redid the forums again, but as you can probably guess, he beat us again...... But we all had a great time in the process, and that's when we started to have a further exchange.

"We always thought that the other side was a group like us, but the truth surprised us, the guy said his name was Edward, there was only one person, he said he was hired by a very powerful agency, and he was doing a really cool, world-changing project, and if successful, it would change the way everyone lives and travel, but the content and address had to be kept secret.

"We didn't really take it too seriously at first, because you know, hackers, no one doesn't like to brag, they always brag to you about how good they used to be, but in fact most people don't even have half of what they brag about, Edward is very good, and I admit it, no, it's not an exaggeration to say that he's the best guy I've ever met, but it's a bit too exaggerated to turn the world up or something, but anyway, we met a new friend."

"In the time that followed, Edward would come to our forum from time to time, brag and fart with us, and occasionally reveal some recent events, but basically it was just what the executive wore today, how about lunch, he was a very contract guy, and never discussed specific work, until a month ago, we suddenly got a group message from him, saying that he didn't know if he was doing the right thing."

"I asked him what was going on, if he had been under a lot of pressure at work lately, but he didn't reply, and after about another week, he suddenly contacted me and said that he had escaped and had something very important in his hands, and I asked him what it was, and he sent me a document, and I could tell from that document that things might be really not good." ”

"What's wrong?"

Philip looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "This is a project called CTOS, they plan to build a powerful central control system, all the public facilities in the city are connected to the network, just like installing a brain for the city, from the massive data insight into the naked eye can not find the hidden rules, so that we can overcome the problem that in the past because of limited information, decision-makers can only do local optimal strategies and can not really find the global optimal solution, through calculation, reallocate public resources, and avoid waste."

"For example, if you connect the traffic lights at all intersections to the network, you can re-plan and calculate the optimal time allocation for each traffic light, saving travel time, and at the same time, if there is an accident on the road, the city brain will also directly feed the alarm to the hospital, so that the ambulance can arrive in the shortest time."

"Sounds good."

"Yes, Edward thought so at first, but then he found out that there is something else behind CTOS, once this system is established, not only those public facilities, but also actively collect the data information of all citizens, your phone messages, medical records, medical insurance numbers, criminal records, favorite websites, chat partners, browsing history, chat content, and every credit card purchase will be controlled by it."

"It's a disaster." The ponytail man said.

"Yes, that means that from now on our every move will be under the watchful eye of others, we will no longer have any privacy, and even the room will be full of cameras." Waldo also became rare and serious, "You don't know when they will mobilize your PC or phone, or even your drone." ”

"And if it goes on like this, things may get worse, this is only the first stage, and in the second stage, CTOS will automatically analyze and mark everyone's dangerous tendencies, of course, it is a good thing to be able to prevent crime in advance, but we don't know how and how it calculates everyone's dangerous tendencies, without constraints, each of us may be labeled as dangerous elements."