Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

Microsoft senior researcher Parker had a bit of a meltdown.

Because he received three more vulnerability reports marked as "extremely high threat", the coffee he often drank suddenly lost its aroma.

I subconsciously looked at the author and it turned out to be him! Hu!

Reproduce, verify, and make patches. No, refer to the "solution" to make patches.

Why don't you just write a patch and forget it?

Parker felt very uncomfortable. Just submit the vulnerability. Why would you write a solution?

This makes him seem useless and like a tool.

The key is that he must hand in this report. By then, both his superiors and boss will know that the patch he made is based on the solution.

How can I withdraw my value?

Parker felt aggrieved. He felt that his skills were very good and he could solve the loopholes independently, but it just took time.

However, according to company regulations, it is impossible to give him too much time for "ultra-high threat" level vulnerabilities.

In this case, it is obvious that the optimal solution to solve the problem is to choose the optimal solution of Hu.

So, in the email he sent to his boss, he wrote: After careful review and experimentation, the solution provided by Hu is very effective. It is recommended to adopt it directly and launch the patch as soon as possible to avoid customers suffering losses and threats due to vulnerabilities.

Then, he sent this email for four days in a row.

Huorong submitted three vulnerabilities every day, all of which were of ultra-high threat level. There was only one on the last day, but it was the highest-level security vulnerability.

As a result, Microsoft's press conference was held for four consecutive days.

On the fifth day, Gates, the richest man, had to stand up personally.

Microsoft is a big company. It has announced extremely high threat level vulnerabilities for four consecutive days. Although it has simultaneously provided solutions, this is enough to cause some confusion among customers.

What's going on? Can you guys do it? I'm patching it every day. Is it rock solid as promised?

So Gates had to come forward in person. At the meeting, he personally admitted that there was a super loophole in the window system that was left in the design from the beginning, and thanked Mr. "Huo Rong" from Daxia for providing the perfect solution.

At the same time, he expressed his appreciation for Huo Rong's behavior and called him "the hacker with the most Internet spirit." Since Huo Rong was unwilling to reveal his identity and was unwilling to work at Microsoft, Gates said he would go to Daxia at the right time. I hope to meet with Huo Rong to discuss Internet security issues together.

Gates later also stated that Microsoft will award Huo Rong a permanent MVP, which is the Microsoft Most Valuable Expert Award, and will regard Huo Rong as a permanent partner.

This award is selected once a year, and the selection mechanism is quite strict. Few people in China have won this award. Although this award does not cost much, it still has many benefits.

For example, reputation, such as a technical website dedicated to MVP and free use of all Microsoft Windows systems, the biggest benefit should be access to the Microsoft knowledge base.

Except for reputation, everything else was of little use to Wang Zheng, and he didn't understand it.

But this is the first time Microsoft has issued a permanent MVP to someone, and it was issued by the world's richest man himself.

Therefore, even though the Internet in Daxia has been blowing up for several days, it can only blow up again today - I have never seen anything so awesome.

There were three vulnerabilities in one day for four consecutive days. Although there was only one vulnerability on the fifth day, it was so serious that even Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, revealed it and even admitted the design error himself.

And this Huo Rong is from Daxia. This is very important. What is this called? This is called promoting the prestige of our country!

It made the front page of the Great Summer Newspaper, and it was also talked about for two minutes in the news time.

To be honest, Wang Zheng is a bit numb.

He couldn't understand the technical content in the vulnerability report. His original purpose was just to solve these vulnerabilities in advance and make a name for himself, so that he could successfully launch "Huo Rong" and make money.

I never thought it would have such a big impact.

There are still emails in my mailbox from Microsoft Asia, Microsoft headquarters and the richest man Gates.

There were a total of 13 vulnerabilities, and Microsoft Asia paid 1.5 million.

The email from Microsoft headquarters was to inform him that he had won a useless award.

Gates invited him to the American League, hoping to have dinner together to discuss Internet security technology.

Wang Zheng curled his lips, "It's impossible to go, it must be unrealistic!"

Am I not seeking death by discussing security technology with a technical guru like you? Are you going to collapse just by changing the interface without looking at me?

In the process of struggling with the UI interface of "Huo Rong", Wang Zheng has made a lot of progress. At least he knows which characters can be changed and which cannot...

The result is good, at least the company name, time, and version number displayed on the software are gone.

The time is no longer displayed in the vulnerability repair tool, and the 13 vulnerability files in the vulnerability library have been directly replaced by Wang Zheng with the latest ones released by Microsoft. Therefore, there is only one final step left before "Huo Rong" is officially ready for release. .

He was thinking about how to make a profit.

There is no doubt that "Huo Rong" must be free - it has no charging function.

Of course, you still have to register an account, otherwise you won't be able to connect to the server and you won't be able to use the cloud anti-virus and patch download functions. This is a big difference between the professional version and the personal version.

So how to make a profit? By the way, how did 365 do it before?

Wang Zheng thought about it for a long time, analyzed it bit by bit, and finally found a "reasonable" way to make money.

He decided to make a guide (fishing) navigation (fishing) website.

Even if you have never been exposed to web page production, there is still no problem in making a simple navigation website.

DW, I learned it in high school computer class.

Just look at hao123 to find out what the navigation website is for. That crap can be sold for tens of millions, it makes no sense and I can’t do it.

So after two hours of hard work (chao) and battle (xi), he made a super simplified version of hao123.

This webpage is so simple that even elementary school students can make it in the future.

It is a simple static page divided into several squares of different colors. In the long orange square at the top, there is a line of bold words: The best security management software, and then there is the download link for "Huo Rong" , followed by the words "completely free".

There is a row of square color blocks below, with titles such as search, shopping, games, movies, music, community, etc., and then several commonly used hyperlinks are placed inside the blocks.

In the search, there is even only one link called Qiandu, which is very large.

In fact, he also wanted to put a Qiandu search bar, but it was a bit difficult and he gave up.

It doesn’t matter, it’s just a phishing website anyway.

Because he had already registered a domain name before, he temporarily used hu. This domain name is used to mount this minimalist version of the navigation web page.

I have my own server and IP dedicated line. After publishing the web page using DW, my work computer will be able to access the web page soon.

Of course, I will have to file it another day.

Seeing that the webpage he made was officially launched, Wang Zheng didn't feel any sense of accomplishment, but rather felt ashamed - it was too crude.

I have to quickly register a company, recruit some siege lions and programmers, and also register for an ICP certificate.

Wang Zheng was busy with "Huo Rong" this week, and all the sales of the Internet cafe billing system were passed on to Wang Dalong. Even the two customers introduced by Chen Ran were handed over to Wang Dalong for docking.

Wang Dalong has already secured three customers, and the related servers and other equipment are ready, and he is just waiting for him to go over and install the system.

According to what I communicated with Wang Dalong a few days ago, Internet cafes that want to install a billing system must have certificates and cannot be black Internet cafes.

There must be an escape route and enough fire extinguishers.

The most important thing is to accept the rule of not accepting minors.

Originally, Wang Zheng should not be responsible for this, but the situation in the government is more complicated now, so he should do more if he has the opportunity.

Moreover, the Internet cafe billing system will be included in the government supervision sooner or later. When the second-generation ID card becomes popular, ID cards will no longer be used, but the second-generation ID card will be used directly to access the Internet.

Wang Zheng’s regulation can be regarded as an early response to national regulations.

Now that the matter of "Huo Rong" was finally settled, I had to hurry up and install the system. So I simply made an appointment with Wang Dalong, took a taxi and went straight to the client's Internet cafe.

On the way, I was still thinking that now that I have money, it’s time to buy a vehicle.