Chapter 314 Code Punk

The decoration in the online cafe is very luxurious, but the price is not cheap, which is several times more expensive than surfing the Internet at home. And if it is a box, there is also the lowest consumption.

After Lin Hong came in, he had been observing carefully.

The reason why he came here is that he thinks that this model may work in China, because it is too expensive to surf the Internet at home. If he can concentrate, he will also set up such a place, and then charge it by the hour. It should be very marketable.

The reason why Lin Hong is so sure is that he remembered the popularity of game consoles in China before.

The Internet cafe has developed relatively maturely in the United States. There is a special billing system for surfing the Internet. It is monitored through the local area network, and the Internet time can be accurate to seconds.

Lin Hong thought for a moment and felt that this software is not difficult to implement. Use a computer as a server, and then run a client in other computers. After booting up, just establish a connection with the server.

Compared with that in China, the network speed in the United States is like the comparison between the mountain sheep intestine path and the highway. Lin Hong has been on the turtle speed network in China for so long. When he came to the United States, he can finally experience the smoothness of an information highway.

Lin Hong first downloaded a bit messenger client directly from the Internet, which almost became his fixed habit. Only by using the bit messenger as a proxy for network access will he do some more secret things, otherwise he will usually be like an ordinary user, just reading the news and browsing the web.

Lin Hong tried to log in to the forum of Tricolor Fire Technology and found that the network speed was a little slow, and it took half a day to open the page.

At this time, the registered users of the three-color fire bbs have reached more than 2,000, and there are about hundreds of active online users every day, but there is only one server used to support these people. This kind of support ability cannot be achieved by other platforms before, and only the optimized Linux server platform can do it.

When Lin Hong was in China, he rarely visited foreign hacker forums due to the slow network speed, because the long connection was easy to be noticed by webmasters.

When he got here, he began to let go and began to focus on some recent events in the hacking world.

The two computers in the box were placed face to face. After sitting next to her and browsing the web page for a while, she did not continue. She sat opposite Lin Hong, simply propped up her chin, and looked at Lin Hong in a daze, with tenderness in her eyes and a smile on the corners of her mouth. She didn't know what

Over the years, many major events have happened in the hacker world. For example, Kevin Mitnick was arrested and shocked the entire hacker world. Some of his supporters are already planning to protest to the government authorities for the release of Kevin. They contacted and organized through bit messengers, and replaced the web page with the slogan "Release Kevin" by taking some actions, such as hacking some government websites.

Lin Hong did not say anything about such behavior, but he was sure that Kevin would not be released so easily, although he did almost no evil and did not use his hacking technology to make benefits for himself.

Earlier, a young hacker organization called "Master of Deception" in New York was also convicted of hacking into the computers of AT&T, Bank of America and NSA.

Lin Hong noticed that the crackdown in the field of computer crime in the United States has begun to increase year by year, and the staff of fbi's cybercrime department have also begun to develop like a professional development, and many former white hat hackers have been recruited into these departments.

However, with the development of network and computer software and hardware, hackers are using more and more. Legal constraints have no effect on these people who like to explore new things and challenge authority.

In addition to some old hacker organizations that are still active on the Internet, Lin Hong also noticed that an organization called "crypto punk" has gradually emerged in recent years, and their activities are not intended to be hidden from the public, but in a semi-public state.

Lin Hong became interested in this loose non-profit organization, because he saw in his post that some people said that its members came from various fields, such as genius computer hackers, creative university mathematics professors, fanatical liberal advocates, anti-traditional cryptographers and various other avant-garde People.

So, Lin Hong registered a new account and posted a post on a popular bbs to ask for a detailed introduction of the "password punk" organization.

Someone replied soon, and he gave a link in the reply.

Lin Hong clicked on this link and found that it was a search link, that is to say, this link is not the specific introduction page of the password punk organization, but a search list of search websites. The keyword used is "password punk".

Lin Hong is no stranger to the search website, because such services have already appeared in this period, such as Yahoo search, jumpstation, etc.

However, Lin Hong found that he had not seen this search website before. He took a look at the introduction of this website and found that this website called "backrub" was an experimental personal website, and the creator was a larry page.

Lin Hong found several web pages from the list of results to read, and found that the first few web pages were exactly what he wanted to find. This situation can't help but make a good impression of this backrub website, because he used other search websites before, and it usually takes a long time to find what he wants to see.

After reading several introduction articles or posts about the "crypto punk" organization, he has a more systematic understanding of the organization.

This organization was established in the summer of 1992 to promote the application and development of cryptographic encryption algorithms in the private sector.

Before the rise of the Internet, the key technologies of encryption had been monopolized in the hands of the military, and ordinary people had no access to these technologies at all.

The password punk organization is to break this monopoly. They are dissatisfied that the military takes taxpayers' money to study encryption technology, but in the end, they do not give back to the people at all. The technology developed by the National Security Agency has hardly been converted to civilian use.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, the magist would monopolized information. Once someone outside the ll will want to enter the market, those in power will send someone to smash the other party's goods and expel them. However, the rise of printing broke the monopoly of the party, because people could publish the production technology of goods on books. In the era of the rise of printing, there are also some monopolies. They master such technologies as steelmaking or gun production, but the rise of the Internet is gradually breaking these monopolies, because it is very convenient to publish or sell these technologies through the Internet.

Cryptopunk organizations believe that just as printing weakened the power of medieval operatives and changed the structure of social power, cryptography will also fundamentally change the nature of enterprises and the nature of government interference in economic transactions.

Their ultimate goal is to invent a secure and anonymous online trading method. In this way, the combination of crypto anarchy and the emerging information market will create a mobile market for all materials that can be placed in words and pictures, and these materials can be freely traded.

After the establishment of cryptopunk, a large number of members immediately joined, who supported the development of the organization in various ways. For example, some people directly search for academic papers on cryptographic technology in expensive and particularly difficult-to-find journals, scan them with a computer, and then post them anonymously on the Internet. In this way, they are "liberated" from copyright restrictions.

After Lin Hong saw their introduction, he became very interested in their organization, because many of their ideas and ideas coincide with Lin Hong.

In fact, the implementation mechanism of the bit messenger largely reflects the idea of the cryptopunk organization, which is why they have designated the bit messenger as an official communication tool.

Lin Hong finally saw a short news from a post - on August 22, the cryptopunk organization will hold a monthly seminar in New York, at which more than a dozen core members of the organization will participate in the meeting, and other people from all walks of life will also participate, as long as they have a sense of career. Interested, welcome to everyone's arrival.

And the cryptopunk organization suggested that participants can choose to participate anonymously. It is recommended that participants wear black suits uniformly, and masks will be provided when entering the venue.

Of course, this is for those who don't want to reveal their identity. In fact, many people don't care about revealing their identity.

The topic of the meeting is mainly to discuss how to achieve real "anonymity" on the Internet.

"The 22nd... it's tomorrow."

Lin Hong became interested in this meeting. After thinking about it for a while, he finally decided to go and have a look. After all, the time and place were just enough, and he didn't need to spend much time in the past.

Lin Hong looked at the time and found that it had been more than an hour unconsciously, so he did not continue. Looking up at Phylise, he found that the other party's eyes were looking at him without blinking.

"Sorry, I forgot the time as soon as I surfed the Internet." Lin Hong said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter. You can go as long as you want. I'll wait for you."

Lin Hong erased his online records, deleted the bit messenger, and then stood up: "It's getting late. I'll send you back first."

The two walked out of the Internet cafe together. Lin Hong stopped a taxi and was about to let her go in first, but suddenly she was gently pulled by Phylce.

"Uncle Stone..."

"What's wrong?" Lin Hong turned around and asked.

Felice raised her toes with a red face, put her mouth to Lin Hong's ear, and said gently, "Today, I'll live at your place."