Cyber Heroes

"Then..." Xiangshan carefully considered his words: "Ms. Ingrid Granat, could you please recount the process of leaking the secret again?"

Across the mountain, Ingrid rolled her eyes: "What's wrong? You've only been in charge for a day, and you've already gotten into the bad habits of a bureaucracy? Don't you know how to read reports?"

Just as Jing Hongtu expected, Xiang Shan is indeed a very popular individual within the scholar group.

In the past year, he made outstanding contributions to the "Ogun" exploration. So far, this young man has shown no moral radicalness or flaws.

Additionally, he was one of the first people to come into contact with Ogun.

As Jing Hongtu said, this is a huge "political capital".

Xiangshan smiled: "Don't you want to confirm again? Maybe we can find more details?"

"No." Ingrid rolled her eyes: "It's not my fault."

Xiang Shan sighed.

It is now the second half of 2030.

In this short period of six months, the Rama project has experienced rapid growth.

Just last month, the project faced a huge crisis.

A hacker posted a set of code from Project Rama on the hackers' website and left a message saying, "This seems to be some kind of special algorithm, but I can't understand it at all. Does anyone know what this is?" "Message.

This is a big problem.

2029 is a year of rapid progress for the Rama project. Xiangshan creatively decoded some "unknown alien junk" as plain text and succeeded. Xiangshan and other scientists from the Engineering Department methodically obtained various data from the alien garbage, converted it into binary code, and stored it in the computer.

At the very beginning, officials of Project Rama were worried that there might be some super AI hidden in these codes, which was full of malice towards human beings and could destroy them in an instant. But it didn't take much effort for Xiang Shan to convince them.

The reason is very simple. Although the alien computer is mathematically equivalent to a Turing machine, its engineering architecture is different from those on Earth. It is a completely new engineering implementation of a Turing machine. Earth computers are incompatible with it from hardware to underlying protocols.

From the perspective of Earth's computer, this is an incomprehensible garbled file.

After that, talents from all walks of life began to cross the sea and show their magical powers.

Work from many different perspectives including logic, mathematics, evolutionary psychology, biology, linguistics, etc.

Everyone is thinking about deciphering those mysterious codes.

During the subsequent inspection, the security department of Project Rama quickly identified the source of the leak.

That was actually from Ingrid Granat.

Ingrid used her personal computer to copy a portion of the data from Ogun. After that, she left the campus with her computer and returned to China for a vacation. According to Ingrid herself, she did this so that she could think and record her inspiration anytime and anywhere.

However, her computer actually sent the contents.

It is not yet known whether Ingrid's leak was simply due to a computer security breach or because of her own treachery.

After that, two more leaks occurred.

Both times, some binary code was leaked.

However, this is still code that cannot be run on Earth computers.

It is estimated that the hacker who stole this thing does not know what the purpose of this unclear garbled file is. So he had to turn to the hacker community.

Fortunately, no one on earth can see the true face of this piece of data.

Many people in the hacker community simply asked the hacker who stole the data if this was a joke or a prank. Did he just mess around with the keyboard and create a bunch of garbled codes to amuse everyone?

However, the hacker who stole the data said that he used his own ID as a guarantee, which definitely makes sense.

He scraped the data from several different linguist computers. And these linguists all have names in a European technology company. The hacker said that he suspected that capital was building technological hegemony based on "natural language".

For example, create AI that produces various literary and artistic works, or translation software that is ahead of its time, or AI that runs based on natural language... and so on.

The hacker's imagination is actually quite nonsense.

That company actually specializes in voice AI and translation software, and has certain business dealings with many scholars in linguistics and cognitive science, and Ingrid is just one of those experts and scholars who have received sponsorship and used their names. one. It is no coincidence that several Rama Project scholars have business dealings with that company—after all, this project benefits the most elite scholars in the world.

However, the person who released the information was a very famous hacker.

And the code does not look like a product of this era at all [after all, it is not something that earth computers can currently run], but it does seem to be very logical.

"Zhu Rong", a hacker who focuses on stealing technical information from large companies and then sharing it for free, is a cyber guerrilla in the information age.

Before this, he had already stolen or dismantled information from many large companies.

This is a major event for Project Rama Special Projects. The entire park was immediately controlled.

Subsequently, the original head of the research department also resigned at the speed of light due to poor information control.

Due to the competition between major powers and the internal demands of scholar groups, several countries have recommended candidates to run for this position.

It is said that while they were arguing, the fourth leak occurred. The major countries really couldn't care less about wrangling and hastily reached an agreement.

And just as Jing Hongtu expected, Xiang Shan obtained this position with a considerable advantage.

After a brief inauguration ceremony, Xiangshan became the head of the Rama Project R\u0026D department, and immediately participated in a special working group to trace the information leakage problem and reduce the impact of the incident on the outside world.

And the reason why he chose to come here to ask was actually what Jing Hongtu told him.

"No matter what, find a way to directly interfere with the process of this matter." Jing Hongtu warned Xiang Shan.

Xiangshan was very puzzled at the time: "Can't I just read the report? I feel like there's not much I can do... It's impossible for those professionals to miss anything, right? All useful information should be read in the report..."

"The focus is not on efficiency, but on conveying a signal to the outside world and expressing one's stance." Jing Hongtu shook his head, "You want others to know that you care about this matter..."

Xiang Shan was even more confused: "If you are concerned about this matter, you shouldn't concentrate on reading the information that has been compiled..."

"No, 'actual work' is not the focus, the focus is 'expressing one's attitude'. Although you may not understand it now, you must remember it well. If you want to become a qualified 'bureaucrat,' 'the courage to express one's inclinations' is more important than The 'ability to work' is even more important. This is a completely different place from the academic world you are familiar with."

"Then what? What's the point?"

"Even if this matter ends up being nothing, you will get a good impression that 'I am actively taking the blame for the organization.' This will also be good for you in the future. This is the worst case scenario. On the bright side, this matter is What broke out during your last term had nothing to do with you. And when it was resolved, you had something deeply to do with it."

"But this matter was finally resolved, right? It was also due to the efforts of professionals in the network security department, right?"

Jing Hongtu shrugged: "Yes. But under these easy-to-understand 'rules', there are also 'potential rules'. According to these 'potential rules', the resolution of the incident depends on your 'wise decision-making' Not open contact.”

"Only if you express interest in this matter while you have the authority, will you have the opportunity to interfere with it in the subsequent process."

"So, Xiaoxiang, remember, no matter what, you must express your concern for this matter."

"If you want to have the 'power' to change the world, you have to learn to use this disgusting reality."

Recalling Jing Hongtu's words, Xiang Shan still rubbed his forehead and said to Ingrid: "Yingjia, I understand your mood. But we must resolve this matter."

"So you just go and solve it?" Ingrid was very dissatisfied: "What can you change by chatting with me?"

Another UN official next to Xiang Shan shook his head: "Ms. Granat, I hope you can control your emotions. Now everyone is suspected..."

"They are all suspected? What do you mean? Who among us deliberately brought that virus in?" Ingrid raised her eyebrows: "How is it possible? Those hackers don't even know what that code does! Among us If there are people who have that tendency, then they are not speculating about what those codes are for, but they are raising the banner of 'opposing big powers secretly dissecting alien friends'!"

The UN official asked: "It is also possible that the intelligence personnel did not know how to deliver this code safely, so they put it online and then used private channels to tell its nature?"

Ingrid felt a little headache. She really doesn’t want to get entangled with these guys anymore: “I can’t imagine which intelligence agent they are from. ‘Freemasonry’ or ‘Jewish Capital Group’?”

The UN official knocked on the table: "Watch your words, Ms. Granat."

"And besides me, are there other more suspicious people?"

"Are you talking about Yawgmoth Voigt?" Xiangshan interrupted: "Because Yawgmoth is suspected of participating in the 'Open Access Movement' extremist faction, he has been controlled and is under investigation. . If he can't clear himself of suspicion, he may have to spend his whole life in a prison in the United States."

Sorry, I was too sleepy due to the exhaustion of traveling yesterday, so I couldn’t hold on any longer so I went to bed first...