Chapter 674: Eagle Sauce, Count You Ruthless!
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The National Security Agency (NSA) is located in a forest at Fort Meade. As America's most secretive intelligence organization, the NSA has always hired the world's best mathematicians, computer scientists, and linguists to work for it.
The NSA has thousands of listening stations around the world, and they monitor the entire planet from all corners of the earth, the sea, the sky, and even the universe. And this information provides an important reference for the United States to control the world.
Fukuyama, a Japanese-American, is an excellent communications and computer specialist, working with hundreds of colleagues to make the NSA's vast satellite surveillance network work. Today, however, he suddenly discovered that there was a problem with a national defense communications satellite, and one of the transponders on this satellite was not working.
"Hi ......, one of the DSCS-3 satellites has malfunctioned and one of its transponders is no longer responding to our commands." Fukuyama said to his white colleague. As a Japanese American, he used to consult with his colleagues before reporting to his superiors.
Fukuyama's white colleague frowned, and he confirmed the situation on his monitoring stand, "You're right, there's a transponder that's really wrong." But maybe we should check with NASA first and ask for their opinions. ”
The transponder is a key component of the communication satellite, and it is responsible for the transmission of radio information. NASA is NASA, and if there is a problem with a satellite, you always have to find those experts to solve it.
So Fukuyama sent an inquiry to NASA's ground control station, and was told that the DSCS-3 had been in use for more than ten years and was approaching the end of its life, and that there might indeed be problems. But the specific situation needs to be tested.
The test was a day later, but when Fukuyama returned to work the next day, he received a reply from NASA's ground control station: everything was fine with the satellite, and there was no problem with the transponder.
How is this possible? Obviously no longer working.
As the Japanese became more serious, Fukuyama began to dig deeper into the source of the problem, only to find that the transponder was indeed working properly, and at full capacity, and it refused other instructions.
It's strange that a lot of data is being transmitted from the geosynchronous satellite's transponder, which means it's been working for at least a whole day. Isn't that right, that user will have a transponder to himself for an entire day? And the data transfer is not over yet.
Fukuyama immediately reported the situation to his supervisor, and several NSA employees began to analyze the problem, first discovering that the transponder was contacting the Justice Department's supercomputer host and had been reading a large amount of information from the host's database.
"Hell, that's not normal. Turn off this transponder immediately, it must have hacked us. The director was anxious on the spot, and the fact that someone had been hacked into an agency that specialized in monitoring others was a major leak, enough to send some unlucky guy to prison for the rest of his life.
"We can't turn it off." Fukuyama was already sweating profusely, and when he tried to manipulate the satellite on the ground, he found that the satellite refused to accept instructions, "The hacker has more control than I have." ”
This news is more shocking than hacking, and ordinary hackers can only take advantage of some vulnerabilities to take advantage of it, but now that high-level control permissions are actually mastered, this trouble is even greater.
Fukuyama's authority is not enough, and the supervisor is on it; The superintendent's authority was insufficient, and the higher-ranking superintendent was called over, and in the end, even the NASA engineers who controlled the satellite on the ground were dumbfounded - the current control of the satellite was the lowest level of control that left it when it was manufactured, which was exclusive.
What to do?
This matter was reported layer by layer, and the director of the National Security Bureau was called over, but everyone was a little helpless. A satellite tens of thousands of kilometers above the ground is disobedient, what can they do?
As if aware that he had been discovered, the DSCS-3 had only one transponder stealing data. Well, now that all eight transponders are out of control, they are transmitting data like crazy.
"Immediately notify the Ministry of Justice and ask them to disconnect the host from the outside world." The Director can only come up with a solution that is not the way to go.
When the Justice Department heard this advice, it was already going crazy. Since receiving the notice from the National Security Bureau, their host operation and maintenance personnel have found that their data in the past two years has been turned upside down, and there are no secrets!
The Minister of Justice can't bear such a catastrophic event!
Do you want me to disconnect from the host? It's even more of a joke. This disconnection will bring the entire government system to a halt, because the official file transmission channel for all the top officials in the US government is the main computer of the Department of Justice.
If this is disconnected, all civil servants will be off duty, and they will not be able to do their jobs anyway.
Just when this alarmed the president, the NSA sent another alarm - the Treasury Department quickly disconnected the satellite communication interface, and now the hackers have run to break into your central host.
......, this is a big deal!
The Ministry of Finance is much happier than the Ministry of Justice, and the Minister of Finance does not want to end up in the same embarrassing situation as the Ministry of Justice, so he happily disconnects the physical connection. Now it's fun, the national financial system is paralyzed by minutes.
This scene made Americans collectively dumbfounded, especially the disconnection of the main host of the Treasury Department, and the Internal Revenue Service, which is under the Treasury Department, also stopped. The IRS, which claims to be able to run rampant in the United States, finally discovered that its always fearful self was actually brought down by a network outage.
But the Treasury Department was not the first to be unlucky, and then the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy, and other important departments of the United States began to disconnect themselves from satellite communications. The usual convenient Internet is over when the egg is finished.
In the end, Americans found themselves saying goodbye to the Internet age in the blink of an eye, and only wired telephones and faxes were the most reliable. Although this situation only lasted for a few hours before returning to normal, it was enough to make people feel extremely frightened.
It's the second 911!
Hey, ......, did we say that before?
Of course, people in the United States feel that it is better for the IRS to continue to disconnect from the Internet. They don't want this body to start working again at all.
And in the White House, President Eagle Sauce was furious, "This is a terrorist attack, who did it?" Is there a group that claims to have something to do with it? We must catch this terrorist who dares to provoke the United States. ”
However, the director of the National Security Agency, who initially reported the incident, bowed his head and said: "Due to a major breach in the existing confidential communication mechanism, we are busy replacing all satellite communication hardware throughout the government, and as for the attacker of this incident, we are still investigating." ”
To put it bluntly, the opponent's level is not ordinary, and he hasn't caught it yet!
The president felt that he was in a state of exhaustion.
And in the library of the University of Chicago, when Fukuyama wanted to regain control of the satellite transponder, the highly intelligent black box sounded the alarm. Zhou Qingfeng and others were about to stretch out their black hands to the U.S. Treasury Department at that time, but found that the Treasury Department was simply disconnected.
As soon as the Ministry of Finance broke off, Zhou Qingfeng did not need to do it, and other US government departments were all cut off from the Internet. , Lao Mei has found out, hurry up! He shouted, 'The wind is tight, whew,' and slipped away with the black box.
And the quick reaction of the Americans next, the extravagance of the shot is even more eye-catching. They directly called on their strategic reserves to deal with a nuclear war, launched dozens of backup communications satellites of various types into the sky in one go, and comprehensively revised their communication mechanisms and protocols.
The strength of the great powers behind this is staggering, and the US government has quickly returned to normal. The investigation is in full swing, and the black box brought by Zhou Qingfeng is naturally temporarily unusable.
Eagle sauce, count yourself ruthless!
But fortunately, the data and information that Lao Tzu wants have already arrived. (To be continued.) )