Chapter 20: The Dark Web
Cheng Mo was very skeptical about Wang Shanhai's idea of beating Xie Minyun just now, and the first time Wang Shanhai wanted him to play chess with Xie Minyun, Cheng Mo was suspicious, because he had seen his father play chess with Wang Shanhai when he was a child, not to mention how good the chess was, at least Wang Shanhai's chess was good.
Even if he played chess with his granddaughter, he didn't want to steal his son, of course, he had other plans, but his unexpected arrival changed his approach.
The second time he forced himself to debate with Xie Minyun, Cheng Mo was sure that Wang Shanhai wanted to use himself to wake up the proud Xie Minyun.
Although Cheng Mo never helps others, even if the other party is a beauty, he will not have the idea of being Lei Feng, but the exchange of interests is indispensable, otherwise he will not be in the limelight in front of Xie Minyun and provoke a woman's jealousy, especially a beautiful woman's jealousy, that is not a good thing.
Shen Mengjie is an example.
Cheng Mo didn't waste his mind much in this matter, as for how Xie Minyun looked at him, it didn't matter, when he sat on 113 and went home, Cheng Mo was thinking more about his own watch, but he was not too anxious, and when he got out of the car, Cheng Mo still walked home according to the usual rhythm.
He was the only one on the weekend, and his uncle went back to Wuling, and he would only return to Star City on Monday.
Cheng Mo locked the door and went straight back to his bedroom to find the vinyl record of the 100th anniversary edition of "The Ring of the Nibelungen" Solti's birth, and the things in his room had a fixed location, so he didn't need to think about where to throw them.
Because the record player is in the living room, he rarely listens to this set of vinyl records, and he generally uses the computer to play music when he brushes the questions, although the effect is a lot worse, but it is more convenient, and when he usually does the question, there is no way to listen carefully, and there is no need to pursue sound quality.
Cheng Mo directly pulled out the vinyl record in a white cardboard box from the second row of his bookcase, this set of vinyl records Cheng Mo has heard it twice in total, and it can be regarded as the famous performance of "The Ring of the Nibelungen", especially the decca company is known for its good sound, and the version is a collaboration between solti and VPO, and the Wagner singer is also the choice of the moment, with a strong lineup and excellent sound effects.
Cheng Mo put the box on the table, pulled out the stool and finished it, and then opened the box, the cover was a black engraving of the hero Siegfried slaying the dragon, and the size of the box was the normal 33 rpm vinyl size.
Cheng Mo placed all the contents of the box on the table in turn, and in addition to the turntable, there were four booklets inside, that is, the four acts representing the "Ring of the Nibelungen".
He carefully opened the box to see if there was anything strange and didn't find it before he began to examine the contents.
If you want to find the small thread in a blank place, without it, look carefully, be careful with assumptions, and boldly verify.
Cheng Mo opened the first booklet, which was the description of the set of records, starting with the conductor Solti, and then introducing the orchestra that played.
The second booklet introduces the plot of "The Ring of the Nibelungen" from "The Gold of the Rhine", which contains two 48kHz/24bits lossless audio Blu-ray videos.
Then there is the third volume, the atlas, various materials of the time, songbooks, and the total score of solti.
The last volume is the lyrics, German-English, Chengmerde, and English are not bad, so there is no obstacle for him to read.
Just rummaged through the box and carefully checked all the booklets, and didn't find anything unusual, Cheng Mo looked at the row of things on the table and began to think about what he was missing.
If this set of vinyl records is really a clue left by his father, he does not think that the information will be hidden in vinyl records or Blu-ray DVDs, because his father cannot have the spare time to refill the records, it is too troublesome, too cumbersome, there are more and more hidden ways to convey information, this is definitely not the best, it is better not to send this set of vinyl records, he is not an admirer of Wagner.
Moreover, the length of the record of "The Ring of the Nibelungen" has reached 17 hours, and to listen to the whole play, what is needed is not the level of appreciation, but patience, comparing lines sentence by sentence to find clues, which is too much work and too easy to miss.
So watching or listening to the whole opera, this is the way that Cheng Mo has no choice but to choose.
If the vinyl record itself doesn't mean anything, just a subtext, then there must be some key message that he missed.
Cheng Mo began to recall the scene when he received this set of gifts on November 7 last year, his birthday, although he remembered, but he had never had a birthday, so he was surprised at the time, because his father gave him a birthday gift for the first time.
In the past sixteen years, he basically ate a cake, which was regarded as a birthday, and when he received the gift, he thought it was because Cheng Yongze went to the capital and couldn't bring himself.
He remembered that he was very surprised when he signed for the receipt, and the surprise was not only this, but also the strange thing he found strange was that the sender column did not fill in any information, no telephone, no address, no name....
Cheng Mo immediately turned on the computer and used a search engine to start looking for information about this set of commemorative vinyl records, which was released in 12 years and had a total of 3,000 copies, six years ago, and this set of records had been sold out as early as 12 years.
Cheng Mo opened Taobao to see if it could be sold, but it turned out that none of the stores sold it, not even second-hand, and his set of vinyl records was brand new.
Then Cheng Mo opened a VPN and boarded the Internet, trying to find answers, but Amazon and several major second-hand trading websites still didn't.
Cheng Mo felt that he was already standing at the door of the answer, so he hurriedly boarded the mobile website and checked the phone number of the courier who called him on November 7, his phone number was not much, and he received two text messages from his father on November 7, one telling him to pay attention to the receipt, and the other wishing him a happy birthday.
Cheng Mo felt that he had discovered the mystery, and after finding the phone number, he immediately called the courier and asked to inquire about the relevant information, and the courier replied that he would give him the answer later.
Two hours later, the courier sent a photo of the receipt he signed, the company is UPS, is a courier company in the United States, Cheng Mo saw that the shipping column did not fill in any information, just filled in a garbled code like a web address: /gos7hutlefirefqp.onion/
It was only then that Cheng Mo realized where his father had bought this set of vinyl records, which was an illegal forbidden area on the Internet, a website that could not be found by traditional search engines at all - the dark web (Note 1).......
(Happy holidays, ask for recommendations, ask for collections, in addition, the notes in this article are all real)
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Note 1: Dark Web – "Deep Web". To put it simply, the dark web is websites that cannot be found by traditional search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. According to statistics, the number of these dark websites is more than 500 times the normal number of websites. However, dark places will hide dark things, and it is precisely because of the dark nature of the Deep Web that it is full of all kinds of websites that sell drugs, bloody violence, psychological changes, murder and overselling, and even heard that some people have gone insane because they have dug too deep in the Deep Web.
Ratio of the dark web to the surface network: The concept of the dark web was proposed by U.S. military scientists in 1994, and in May 1996, three scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory submitted a paper entitled "Hidden Path Information", proposing to build a system that would allow users to connect to the Internet without revealing their identities to servers. They call it "onion routing" because the passwords to protect your data are layered like an onion.
In October 2003, the concept was officially implemented. The system was originally named Tor, an acronym for "The Onion Route", and later known as the "Deep Web". It is designed to be so sophisticated that the designer himself could not destroy it. In the early days of the Internet, users could use pseudonyms to create an "alternate self" on the Internet, which had nothing to do with their real identity in life. However, with the development of the Internet, especially the emergence of the "Facebook" website, the online identity of netizens is increasingly overlapping with the real identity. Nowadays, everywhere we go, we are disseminating our information: our browsing history, video preferences, social circles, and even where we are. But not on the "deep web".
Why would the U.S. government build such a system? There are many reasons. It allows the police to investigate illegal websites without scolding them, the military and intelligence agencies to conduct covert liaison, and to train foreign dissidents......
The characteristic of the dark web is "absolute invisibility", the website is invisible, the user's identity is invisible, and the IP address is invisible. As we wander around various websites every day, revealing our identities and whereabouts at will, these dark web users are doing whatever they want in the online world. Many people just take a fancy to the invisible characteristics of the dark web, so they start to do all kinds of things on the dark web that can't be done on the surface network and in real life, and it is really as originally announced by the invention of the Wan /////Dimension// network - omnipotent.
Today's dark web is full of all kinds of drugs, arms trading, smuggling, organ trafficking, human trafficking, killers, hackers, cults, terrorist organizations, children's X-love, X-perverts, financial crimes, money laundering, etc., the dark web is a truly lawless world.