Chapter 230 Thunderbird One
Melbourne, the second largest city in Australia, is located in the southeast of Australia. It is the capital of Victoria, known as the "Garden State" and is also a well-known international metropolis.
Melbourne's green area is as high as 40%, and it has been rated as one of the most suitable cities for human habitation for many years. From 1901 to 1927, Melbourne has been the capital of Australia and the cultural center of Australia.
Perhaps because of the history of Melbourne as an Australian talent center, young people in this southern city are more likely to accept foreign new things than other places, nurturing Australia's earliest hackers, thus making Melbourne a mecca for Australia's underground electronic culture.
During this period, according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 60-100 technical BBѕ in Australia, and more than 90% of these BBѕ are concentrated in Melbourne.
Among many hackers BBѕ, the two most famous BBS are "Pacific Island" and "Zen". On the one hand, the user level on these two BBS is generally relatively high, and on the other hand, it is very difficult to become a member of these two BBS. More importantly, these two Bs BS supports a large number of users who are online at the same time.
Due to the nature of software and hardware, other BBS can only support up to four or five hundred people online at the same time, while the Pacific Islands can support 1,000 people online at the same time. ZEN is even more exaggerated and can support 2,000 people online at the same time.
Some people speculate that Thunderbird One must have used multiple telephone lines to maintain this scale, and because this kind of BBS is free for people to browse, it is expensive to support such a BBS. For example, according to some estimates, it takes at least 5,000 yuan to build a BBS like Pacific Island. The US dollar, plus the monthly phone bill, is a very large figure for ordinary families.
Not to mention the larger scale of ZEN.
So Thunderbird One can create "Pacific Islands" and "ZEN" alone, making it a very high position in the hacker industry.
However, only a few people know that Thunderbird One is actually just a young man who is only 23 years old.
He did use multiple telephone lines to support so many simultaneous online users. For example, there are two lines in the Pacific Island, and ZEN has as many as four. He spends only half of the money of others for no other reason, just because he is an internal employee of the only domestic telephone operator in Australia.
It is precisely because of this internal advantage that Thunderbird One not only operates two BBS at the same time, but also both BBSs are never offline, while many other BBSs are usually offline during the day and appear on the network at night.
On this day, Thunderbird 1 worked overtime until the evening due to work [pay attention to the jet lag] and went online. When he logged in to his BBS according to his usual habits, he was a little surprised to find that there was a post called "Channel to Freedom - Bit messenger" inside the Pacific Island. This post is very popular. Now there are more than 150 replies and more than 2,000 views.
What surprised Thunderbird One was not the popularity of this post, but the publishing account of this post, which turned out to be his administrator account - Thunderbird One!
He is the only one to use this account. He did not tell the password to the second person, and he is very sure that he has never published such a post.
Someone stole his account and posted a post!
Thunderbird One can't tell what it feels like. There are shocks, accidents, and anger.
This has never happened since the creation of the Pacific Islands a few years ago.
Moreover, this post is published in the "Internal Church" section of the Pacific Islands, which is not open to the public, but only the core members of the Pacific Islands have access.
Thunderbird 1 didn't have time to check the content of the post, so it immediately entered the system and began to check the traces of intrusion.
His account is used for administrator permissions. The other party does not simply steal someone else's account. It must have invaded the server to steal his own account.
Thunderbird One checked around, but did not find any suspicious clues.
The other party's technology is very smart, and it must have taken advantage of a loophole he didn't know to invade.
The server in the Pacific Islands is modified by APPLE-Iie. Although it is old, it can meet the demand.
Thunderbird I didn't give up to check some places again, but there was still nothing to gain.
He was checking when the phone rang.
"Hello?" Thunderbird 1 answered the phone.
"Big boss, I'm an elf. Did you really write that bit messenger? Now there is a lot of noise in BBS. Why don't you come forward to explain it?
"Elf?" Thunderbird One was stunned when he heard the words. He had a bad feeling in his heart, because the elf was a member of ZEN.
The users of
ZEN and the Pacific Islands do not coincide, and this result is the result of the strict control of Thunderbird 1.
Because in order to avoid government departments or journalists lurking in it, each member will call in person to verify their real identity, and if necessary, he will even meet them in person.
This is the experience of Thunderbird One after the collapse of the old hacker forum AHVBBS. The forum was closed for violating Australian law and disbanded.
Since the dissolution of AHVBBS, the emerging Melbourne hacker society once tended to disband. At this time, Thunderbird One stood up and founded the Pacific Islands. In order to enable the Pacific Islands to survive for a long time, he prohibited major members from posting stolen trade secrets and other content that violates national laws. And strictly collect evidence and review all members.
Although this method is troublesome, it is very effective. The strict censorship system makes the relationship between everyone closer.
In such a public place, hackers never discuss violations of the law, and simply exchange hacking technology, which is also an important reason for the steady development of the Pacific Islands.
Later, on the basis of the Pacific Islands, Thunderbird I founded ZEN. The management of ZEN is the same as that of the Pacific Islands. ZEN was founded because the Pacific Islands can no longer meet the needs. ZEN uses more advanced computer technologies, such as 32-bit computers and multitasking.
What Thunderbird 1 did not expect was that both of his servers had been captured by the other party.
As the head of Australia's two most famous hacker BBS, this has to be said to be ironic.
Thunderbird 1 checked the ZEN server, and the result was the same as before, and there was no clue.
The other party seemed to be a ghost, walking gently without any damage, leaving only a post in the name of Thunderbird One--
The passage to freedom - Bit messenger!
Thunderbird One began to officially read this post.
"I actually went to the Pacific Islands and ZEN to advertise. Promote your own instant messaging software!"
Thunderbird No. 1 snorted coldly. There is no advertising situation. On BBS, you can often see people posting posts in the section to promote his software, but this is the first time he has encountered this situation.
Thunderbird One continued to watch. He was already thinking about giving some color to the author of the software, and dared to run to his two BBS to provoke him so arrogantly.
In his opinion, as long as it is instant messaging software, it must be controlled by a server. In any case, he can't hide his identity. At that time, he will give tit for tat to let the other party know the consequences of provoking him.
"Huh? No center?"
Thunderbird No. 1 couldn't help but be stunned.
The principle of this software is explained in detail.
This is based on the point-to-point principle. No central node is used to manage these data, and everyone is the center.
Thunderbird One's originally disdainful look began to become serious.
"In this case, how to store data?"
He is a hacker himself. He knows a lot about computer technology and naturally knows the operation mechanism of an instant messaging software.
However, this software seems to be a little special. It uses flat point-to-point technology to completely abandon the central server.
"...The user's data is encrypted in a very safe way and stored on your friend's computer. The more friends you have, the more difficult it is to lose your data..."
"It's a wonderful way! It's a little interesting!"
Thunderbird One insurrectable to give a thumbs-up to the other party's solution.
This design is very ingenious, which is the essence of the chat and dating software.
According to this design, the other party's friends act as the server to store data. If there is no backup locally, you can send a data download command to your friends and re-download the data in their client.
"So? What does it mean to avoid monitoring and keep it confidential as much as possible?
The dissatisfaction on Thunderbird One's face completely disappeared, but began to be full of interest. This software seems to be very different from the poor commercial software released by previous advertisers.
RAS public key algorithm encryption, hidden name agent, relay jump, random exit...
"That's impossible!"
Thunderbird No. 1 stood up with an incredible look on its face.
He knows the RAS encryption algorithm, and he also understands that he often uses the relay jump, but he didn't expect that these technologies could be combined like this to produce a software called Bit messenger.
"It's incredible!"
Thunderbird One read this post several times. In terms of technical details and logic, he did not let go of every detail, and finally came to the conclusion that it was really feasible.
This post is a technical paper, which theoretically proves that it is completely possible to write a communication software that avoids listening!
Thunderbird 1 immediately starts the FTP software and starts downloading the bit messenger software from the address posted in the post.
At the same time, he quickly picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number.