wild 1995

Chapter 59 Wild words
Wednesday, February 1995, 2, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

This day was the opening day of Yunda University. After getting up in the morning, Di Ye put his palms together, facing the west, and made a prayer gesture for self-seeking blessings. Seeing this, Huang Ya asked, "What are you doing?"

"It's nothing, just a whim."

Huang Ya was used to Di Ye's occasional nervous behavior, so she didn't bother to ask any more questions, so she went directly to the bathroom to wash up. After Di Ye waited for her to leave, she tapped on the monitor on the computer table and lamented, "It's a pity that I can't access the Internet, so I just missed the most exciting hacker war in history!"

On February 2th, the world's number one hacker, Kevin Mitnick, was discovered by a top network security expert, Tsutomu Shimomura, and was arrested by the FBI in North Carolina, ending his legendary hacker career.

Kevin Mitnick is a computer genius. He hacked into the North American air defense command system at the age of 15, was wanted by the FBI at the age of 16, hacked into the Pacific Telephone Company at the age of 17, hacked into the Pentagon at the age of 20, hacked into five IT giants including Nokia and Motorola at the age of 27, hacked into the FBI internal network at the age of 5, and appeared on the cover of "Time" at the age of 29, becoming a sensational news figure.

On December 1994, 12, in order to prove his technical ability, Kevin Mitnick hacked into the San Diego Supercomputer Center of the University of California, stole and deleted the computer data of "the most outstanding computer security expert in the United States" Tsutomu Shimomura, and left provocative words such as "I am better".

Tsutomu Shimomura is the son of Osamu Shimomura, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. He is also a computer genius. He entered Caltech before finishing high school. After graduation, he studied computational physics and network security at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. After being irritated, he cooperated with the FBI. After more than two months, Kevin Mitnick was finally arrested on February 1995, 2.

There is a time difference of more than 10 hours between China and the United States. On the morning of February 2th in Yuncheng, it was February 15th in the United States. Kevin Mitnick had not been arrested. If he could access the Internet at home, Di Ye could cause trouble and use these two computer geniuses as a springboard to gain a wave of reputation for himself.

However, it is a pity that there is no Internet access at home, so Di Ye can only pay respects to the west and mourn for Kevin Mitnick. After all, this guy is one of the mentors he has never met.

When Di Ye went to Pengcheng, he once mentioned "social engineering" to Ma Huazhuan, and social engineering was a concept proposed by Kevin Mitnick.

After Kevin Mitnick was arrested in 1995, he was released on parole in 2000. In 2002, he wrote a best-selling book called "The Art of Deception", which mentioned social engineering for the first time. The core idea is to use human weaknesses and loopholes in social rules to establish a relationship of trust with the attacked, and obtain valuable information by deceiving, suggesting, and persuading.

In essence, social engineering is a kind of systematic deception, which can be used in good ways, such as negotiating, selling, and falling in love, or in crooked ways, such as cheating, gambling, and being Neptune.

Before time-traveling, Di Ye was particularly interested in social engineering. He had studied it for a long time and operated it many times. He did many exciting things that were not illegal.

Zheng Yingyong is very low-key, even Fan Dazhi doesn't know this guy's background, but he doesn't know anything about information technology and social engineering, he was deceived by Di Ye's overtures, and left his private phone number.

With the phone number, Di Ye used Di Yan's position to go to the post office to check the call records and user information. With almost no effort, he found out Zheng Yingyong's background—he was Wang Beilin, the executive deputy mayor of Yuncheng City.

Di Ye's current status is far from Wang Beilin's, so there is nothing he can do about it for the time being, but as long as he knows the existence of this core figure, he will have the advantage of inverting the information, and he will be more calm in dealing with Zheng Yingyong, and will not make blind guesses.

Not being able to personally participate in the battle between the two top hackers made Di Ye feel very regretful, and it also stimulated his determination to go to Pengcheng, so he went to the school to complete the registration procedures in the morning, then ran to Liu Shaosong's office, and asked straight to the point: "Mr. Liu, what is the most valuable thing in your house?"

Liu Shaosong was taken aback for a moment, then came to his senses, and said in amazement, "You finished reading that book in only 10 days?"

Di Ye laughed dryly, and proudly said: "Not only have I finished reading, I even wrote the browser."

"impossible!"

"The only way to conquer the impossible is to believe that all things are possible."

Di Ye pulled out a classic quote from "Alice in Wonderland" in English, then took out the laptop from his backpack, and said, "Mr. Liu, what you say is useless, please read the program."

Liu Shaosong still didn't believe it, and while waiting for the laptop to turn on, he said, "Yuncheng hasn't opened the Internet yet, how did you write this browser?"

"I asked a friend to use Cfido to pass the source code of NCSA HTTPd to me, and set up a web server locally to simulate the Internet environment."

"Can you use NCSA HTTPd?"

"It's open source, just study the code."

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the HTML language and the HTTP protocol, which laid the foundation for the World Wide Web. At the end of 1990, he wrote the world's first web server software in C language, named Common Library. In 1993, he made it open source and renamed it Libwww. The National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) expanded and developed NCSA HTTPd on this basis. NCSA HTTPd will soon evolve into the famous Apache in the next few months. The first killer app in the GUN/Linux environment, thus changing the landscape of the Internet and operating systems.

Di Ye plugged in the Internet cable, uploaded the browser program to Liu Shaosong's computer, and used his laptop as a web server to demonstrate the effect. After watching it, Liu Shaosong was stunned and doubted his own eyes, IQ, and life. Then he decided to let others have a taste of it. Not only did he call Dean Fei over, but he also notified several professors who usually have good relationships in the department.

"This office is too small, go to the meeting room."

"Don't go to the conference room, go directly to the computer room, copy the code and read it slowly."

A group of people escorted Di Ye to the computer room. After studying for a morning, Dean Fei announced the conclusion: There are really geniuses in this world!
Di Ye was self-aware and said modestly, "I'm just an ordinary person with relatively strong learning ability, not a genius."

Liu Shaosong directly exposed him, and scolded him with a smile: "The whole Yuncheng knows that you are not an ordinary person after you have done such a big business during the winter vacation, so don't pretend to be modest."

Dean Fei agreed with Liu Shaosong's point of view, joked a few words with Di Ye, and then said cheerfully: "Our college has a genius, I'm very happy, please go to the second floor of the main cafeteria to have a small stove at noon today!"

"It's rare for the dean to treat guests, so let's go quickly, it's past 11 o'clock, Xiaozao has no good food when we go late."

A group of people came out of the computer room and rushed to the cafeteria. After ordering, Dean Fei suggested, "Di Ye, browsers are more technical than compression software. You might as well change your graduation project to this."

Di Ye disagreed, and said indifferently: "This browser is just a toy for practicing hands. It doesn't have any originality. It's far from what I expected, so forget it."

A professor next to him heard this and said with emotion: "What a big tone! There are not many people in the whole country who can write a browser. How dare you call it a toy?"

Dean Fei had communicated with Di Ye at Liu Shaosong’s home before, and knowing what he meant, he raised his chopsticks and gestured: “Di Ye believes that a webpage should consist of three parts, namely structure, appearance, and behavior. The HTML language only solves the structural problem, but cannot solve the latter two problems, so he plans to develop two new technologies, corresponding to appearance and behavior.”

Liu Shaosong added next to him: "In addition to web technology, Di Ye also wants to improve the content formats on the Internet, such as JPG, GIF, and MP3. These formats are not good enough in quality and are protected by patents. He intends to develop several free and open-source new formats to replace them."

Several professors looked at each other, shocked by this grand plan. One of the older ones looked at Di Ye and asked, "Do you know what you are doing?"

Di Ye smiled lightly and said, "I know, I want to re-establish the foundation of the World Wide Web."

(End of this chapter)