The University of Maryland is home to a small city of just over 20,000 people in Prince George's County, Maryland, called College Park. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The city of University Park is only a dozen kilometers from Washington, D.C., and is naturally qualified to accept special assignments from Washington.

The 22-year-old Snowden, who had just recovered from a work injury at an army base training, was discharged to the University of Maryland, where he showed his prowess for the Internet, working his way up the ranks and quickly gaining access to America's top secrets on the Internet.

Since the 911 incident, the Bush administration began to plan to spy on the Internet, Anderson's prediction before his suicide was not wrong at all, one of the purposes of the original design of the Apa network is to establish a ubiquitous intelligence network, on the surface the Internet is a decentralized network, but all information must be relayed through the exchange layer by layer, providing extremely convenient conditions for network surveillance.

Since the Arpanet, the functions of the naval communications station at Roosevelt Road Base have shrunk more and more, and countless funds have been invested in the secret listening station at the University of Maryland, where the supercomputer is connected to the switches of the various backbone networks to scrape data for monitoring, and the exponential growth of data packets has overwhelmed the load of supercomputer decoding and operation, and Bush Jr. instructed to go directly to the servers of the major Internet giants to intercept the raw data.

It was at this time that Snowden learned of top secrets, which were technical preparations for the Prism program two years later, when Snow and others were involved in planning the Prism project, the CIA noticed a seti@home screensaver developed by the University of California, Berkeley, ostensibly to analyze the outer space data received by the Arecivo telescope in Puerto Rico using the shared time of networked personal computers, but the truth is not so simple.

When a computer with a seti@home tried to log into the database of a secret military project to obtain a report called Assanzi's soldiers' participation in microwave weapons experiments in the Vietnam War, the CIA top brass was shocked, and the people who knew about the project were retired, the person involved was dead, and Assanzi had committed suicide, and they conducted a secret investigation and found that the owner of the computer did not know.

A more in-depth investigation was transferred to Snowden, who used the surveillance network at the University of Maryland to monitor five million computers with seti@home around the world for six months, and finally produced a report and submitted it to the CIA.

In Snowden's report, which describes in detail the computational behavior behind the seti@home, this program quietly collects everything about Assanzi, from his social security number to birth information, all phone and travel records, his social relations and education work history, as well as the emails and BBS records he left on the Internet in the early days, etc., which is completely a copy of the Prism project.

The difference is that Prism collects all the objects in the DHS database, and seti@home mobilizes so many computing resources to find information about Assanzi alone. This report made the CIA feel a deep fear, the Prism project is still in the early stage of planning, it will not be implemented until 2007 at the earliest, and it has to negotiate with the major Internet giants to obtain their key data, and such a little-known small program has actually begun to operate, who is behind it and what purpose must dig him out.

Hollywood is a beautiful place on the outskirts of Rocky Mountain, and Westwind Animation has offices in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, while Clifford prefers to live in Hollywood and communicate with several major animation giants. On this day, he had just sent off Lin Shuangmian, who had come to the West Coast for a vacation, and was receiving the boss of Storm Games according to the schedule of the assistant platoon, and they collaborated on the development of an online game "Star Wars" based on "Flight to the Hercules", and this discussion was to decide when and how to release it globally.

While he was talking, the assistant came in and interrupted him, "Mr. Clifford, there are two people out there looking for you, saying that they are from the CIA, and I have arranged to wait for you in the small reception room." "The CIA, strange, isn't it in charge of international affairs, how could it find me." Clifford turned his wheelchair into the small reception room.

"Hello, you don't go to London to catch the terrorists of the subway bombing, do you want to take a vacation to Hollywood?" Ever since Clifford became deaf by sending radio waves to the M13, he has been cold to the government.

"Mr. Clifford, we're here to learn from you about the algorithms behind seti@home, and I think you know better than we do." One of them spoke.

It turned out to be seti@home, and Clifford finally understood, "What's wrong?" This is a distributed program, and the federal government is unwilling to allocate funds for the Arecivo telescope project, so we have to solve this problem in the private sector, is there anything wrong with it? ”

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, there's an algorithm about Assanzi behind it, we need you to give us its source code, which may threaten national security."

"The law of the United States has not given you the right to check the source program of the seti@home, right, what will be the consequences of the dirty things behind Arecivo if they are made public, right?" Clifford fought hard.

"The law? The president is pushing for a change in the law, and the results will be soon, and then it will not be the source program for seti@home, and your personal email will have to be handed over obediently if we want to. It doesn't matter if Arecivo's secret is made public or not, it doesn't matter anymore, it could have been closed long ago. However, if we publish this information, you can expect the outcome, I guess your cute little boyfriend doesn't want to come out, right? As he spoke, the C.I.A. pulled out a stack of photographs from his envelope and spread them out in front of Clifford, apparently prepared.

Clifford stopped fighting back, the muscles in his face twitched a few times, he turned his wheelchair to the room, and after a while came out with a box of discs.

From Clifford's residence, along Highway 1 to the north for more than 500 miles, you will come to the world-famous science and technology paradise Silicon Valley, which is located in the valley south of San Francisco Bay, the famous University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University jointly support the basic research in Silicon Valley, and the headquarters of countless large companies are also located here, the first radio research and development base of the US Navy was born in Silicon Valley, and later moved to San Diego on the same longitude, and the research and development base became the location of the military industrial giant Lockheed.

Lin Shuangmian drove a rented Honda Fit all the way here, and she didn't expect that Clifford had already handed over the source program of the seti@home to the CIA. Watching Silicon Valley change from a vineyard more than ten years ago to a new town with many headquarters, Lin Shuangmian couldn't help but think of Liu Weiping, if he hadn't returned to China to develop here, maybe he would have achieved another achievement, Lin Shuangmian sat in the car and shook his head, wanting to drive Liu Weiping out of his mind.

Unknowingly, she entered the city of San Jose, and according to the itinerary, Lin Shuangmian was going to the Shark House in San Jose to watch ice hockey games, which was still a hobby she cultivated in Monterey, Canada.

Lin Shuangmian didn't know that at this moment, not far from her Fit, Liu Weiping was sitting in a Chevrolet Impala.

After the reorganization of Jufang Technology, Liu Weiping's status in the School of Communication of Jiaotong University plummeted, first the leaders of the academy forced him to go back to teach, let him publish papers and produce results, Liu Weiping is only fifty years old, it is the beginning of life, he has presided over the development of the voice control system of the whole service, some are ambitious, and it is not a very tricky thing for him to engage in research. But then his colleagues began to point fingers and poke at him, and all kinds of rumors continued to spread, some said that he framed Zhao Yonggang in order to fight for Jufang's shares, and some said that Liu Weiping was not a good thing, and there was a rat warehouse in Jufang's shares, and even more said that Liu Weiping and Wu Xiaoyun were messing with the relationship between men and women, and for a woman, Liu Weiping sent his disciple to prison

。 The rumors are getting worse and worse, these are just embarrassing Liu Weiping, a report letter made Liu Weiping's situation not good, the party committee of Jiaotong University sent someone to talk to him, and asked him to write materials to explain clearly what role he played in the process of operating the stock price of Jufang Technology, and the party committee pointed out that Liu Weiping also obtained benefits according to the report clues, but fortunately, Liu Weiping was not deep and passed the test smoothly.

He and Zhao Yonggang have been fighting in the mall over the years, and he knows a little about human accidents, Liu Weiping saw that the situation was not good, so he took a long sick leave to come to San Francisco under the pretext of poor health, one is to avoid the limelight in China, and the other is to visit the vibrant Silicon Valley by the way, Liu Weiping never forgets his voice control and the decoding program of learning algorithms, when Jufang was reorganized, the voice control of the whole service was sold to Apple at a low price, Liu Weiping met some friends in Silicon Valley, and he wanted to come here to find opportunities.

Lin Shuangmian and Liu Weiping didn't know that each other was close at hand, but in a few minutes, the couple who had been separated for 26 years were about to reunite at the junction in San Jose.

The only thing they saw again was a Toyota Prius, a car that had no driver, a lidar on its head, and drove alone on the roads of downtown San Jose like a Mars rover, while his designer, Sebastian, followed from a distance in another car.

Sebastian is a young engineer who is the director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab and is more proud of the creator of Google Maps.

The Stanley automotive robot he designed successfully won the first prize in a technology competition held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which attracted the attention of an IT giant in Silicon Valley, bought all his projects, and began the research and development of unmanned cars. Now he is bold enough to let the driverless car test the real road conditions in the neighborhood, which is a bit dangerous but necessary, so the company's public relations department has spent a lot of money to communicate with the media, begging them not to follow the film, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

There are always some tabloids and self-media who are unwilling to let go of this opportunity, and the paparazzi sent are everywhere, and Sebastian has no way to take them, but fortunately, the driverless car is very competitive, and it has driven more than 20,000 kilometers under real road conditions, and nothing happened.

It was already the middle of the night at the Baiknur launch site in Kazakhstan, and the huge Proton launch vehicle stood quietly on the launch pad.

Baiknur once launched the first artificial satellite of the Soviet Union, the first cosmonaut, and today, it is about to set a new record in history, the first space pulsed electromagnetic bomb, and under the huge fairing at the top of the Proton rocket is not a satellite, but a gadget like a table clock.

Since the discovery of pulsed electromagnetic waves in the nuclear bomb can destroy enemy electronic equipment, the Soviets have stepped up the pace of developing a special pulsed electromagnetic bomb, after the disintegration of this achievement was inherited by the Russians, the space pulsed electromagnetic bomb is launched into the earth's high orbit with a rocket, and after starting, it will imitate a powerful solar radio burst, which can instantly make the electronic instruments on the earth fail, Russia has been secret, this experiment is to declare to the world that the Russians have mastered this technology, of course, The intensity of the experiment has been greatly reduced, and Russia simply wants to send a signal to its adversaries about last year's NATO accession by the four Eastern European countries and the Baltic Sea.

The project leader, Kolwiczsky, stood next to the commander and watched the tower slowly open on the screen, and the launch entered the countdown stage, "Five, four, three, two, one, launch!" The command hall was tense, and the commander gave an order, and a huge fireball erupted from the tail of the Proton rocket.

Korwiczsky dismisses this manual countdown, knowing that it is just a habit established by American and Soviet astronauts inspired by a science fiction movie, and has been passed down for decades, and compared with the 0.3 nanosecond accuracy of atomic clocks on American GPS satellites that are about to be attacked, this artificial countdown is inferior to the stone tools of primitive people.

Long flames erupted from the proton's tail, blasting out of the atmosphere and heading towards a preset orbit. A quarter of an hour later, a report of the launch target arriving at the predetermined position sounded in the command hall, the commander gave up his position, Korwiczy stepped forward, he habitually looked at his watch, it was two o'clock in the morning, and now California should be four o'clock in the afternoon, it is almost time to get off work, Korwiczyski imagined the scene after the pulsed electromagnetic bomb was activated.

The Kremlin's confirmation order came from the command hall that "pulsed electromagnetic bombs can be activated", and Kolwiczsky pressed the start button without hesitation.