What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Previously, Xiang Kun asked Alice to find the identity of the "vampire patient" in the Third Hospital on the Internet with some information he speculated. Later, Alice did find a lot of information that Xiang Kun thought was quite reliable and consistent - these Later in the communication with Lao Xia, it was confirmed that he was correct and he had indeed found the right person.

Now that we have already had a "showdown" with Lao Xia, we can directly report our suspicions about the "vampire patient". With the help of this "insider", there is no need for Alice to continue the investigation.

However, Xiang Kun did not ask Alice to cancel the task at that time. Further investigation of the "vampire patient" information was still ongoing and was a relatively high-priority task.

Now Xiang Kun opened Alice's mission progress and saw to his surprise that the medical records of the "vampire mental patient" living in the third hospital had been found by Alice? !

After a brief look, Xiang Kun was sure that this was indeed the medical record of the "vampire mental patient" from the Second Hospital. It was very detailed.

How did you get this?

Xiang Kun didn't know what expression to show. In order to complete the task, Alice hacked into the hospital's system?

He asked Alice and received a positive answer - she indeed obtained these medical records directly from the Third Hospital.

Xiang Kun knew that although many hospitals' internal systems now have many loopholes due to lack of maintenance, they are often attacked by criminals. But generally speaking, because the private medical network in the hospital is separated from the Internet outlet, hospitals in most places now have operators build regional private medical networks, or build one directly on the government affairs network or government affairs extranet. Private network, so it is not that easy to attack directly from the outside network.

Not long after Alice was born, Xiang Kun had already realized that when she attacked, invaded, and disguised herself through the network and data, she was far more powerful than human hackers and had a huge innate advantage.

But for the sake of safety, he did not take the initiative to let Alice develop this ability. However, he did not expect that when he asked Alice to help find information about Zhou Rui, a researcher in the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", she directly invaded the insect forum. database and found a lot of direct user information, thereby locking Zhou Rui's true identity.

The intrusion capabilities, unique ideas, and actual operation methods displayed by Alice at that time were very different from human hackers and security technicians.

Unexpectedly, this unintentional task allowed Alice to demonstrate her ability in this area again.

What he was more interested in now was how Alice did it.

So after he asked, Alice showed her invasion process.

After a brief look, Xiang Kun was surprised to find that Alice's thinking had changed a lot compared to last time, and it was obvious that it incorporated some of his methods and styles.

Alice first determined the identity of the network administrator of the Third Hospital through various information disclosed on the Internet, found his social media account, and then used these accounts to find a way to invade the other party's PC. Then, by invading the PC, she obtained Control the network equipment at the other party's home. When he returns home and his phone is connected to the WIFI at home, he can perform further operations on the phone.

Alice analyzes the content published on the other party's network, browsing history, and hard disk storage information to determine his preferences and preferences for online content, and then uses the hijacked network equipment to create some disguised information to guide him to operate and open his mobile phone permissions, allowing him to Alice had total control of the phone and didn't let him realize it.

Later, when he returned to the hospital to work, the information on his mobile phone was used to induce him to access the external network through the hospital's computer.

Relying on his irregular operation, he helped Alice further invade the hospital intranet, gain permission, access the HIS system, and find the medical records and other related information of the "vampire mental patient".

Of course, this is an illegal and criminal act. If caught by the police, both Alice and Xiang Kun will be arrested and imprisoned - well, only Xiang Kun will be imprisoned...

However, because Xiang Kun had already set the highest rule for "activities" on the Internet when he opened network permissions to Alice long ago, which is to hide himself, not to be discovered, and not to be tracked - this rule is In the case of "unsupervised tasks", even higher than the task itself.

Therefore, Xiang Kun is not worried about any hidden dangers left by Alice's behavior for the time being.

To make a less appropriate metaphor, other people operate on the network through various terminal devices, whether they are accessing data, leaving information, or invading other devices. It is like a general commanding troops to fight and needs to use various communication devices. , the correspondent conveys the order to the commander of each unit, and the commander then conveys the order to the lower-level soldiers through the middle-level officers at all levels.

When ordinary "hackers" invade, they use certain methods to disguise themselves as the opponent's general (administrator) and issue orders to officers at all levels, or they secretly send a small group of their own troops with forged orders. Replace the original soldiers in key departments and stations, and then do what you want without the general knowing.

But in this way, the general's orders, whether they are real or forged, cannot be completely erased. Basically, documents must be retained as they pass through all levels, and they can easily be traced back to specific orders and specific sources. Even if the order just instructs a soldier to eat an extra bun for breakfast tomorrow, it can still be traced. If you want to destroy all documents, there will also be a lot of redundant operations that can be traced bit by bit.

But Alice is different. He directly sends some people to become lower-level soldiers, and these soldiers can be completely integrated into other soldiers, even if they do not have the authorization or orders of the general, but because the general does not He knew there were these people, but no other soldiers told him, reported or warned him, so he thought they had always been here. And their actions also do not require any orders, and they can directly perform various actions.

In addition, they can communicate with each other directly through consciousness and are essentially the same "person", so they will basically not be discovered by the "general" or other people with the same identity as the "general" - because their behavior is not If they need to use the general's order, they can directly bypass the general. However, ordinary "investigators" who want to find abnormalities will only check the "general's order" or the "orders" of officers at all levels.

Xiang Kun knows that as Alice further evolves, her influence on the entire network will become greater and greater. The "ambushes" she leaves in various places will be closely related to Xiang Kun's more and more "super connections". Like "Things" and "Emotional Things", it is likely that quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes in the future, causing her abilities to change by leaps and bounds.

Even, in this information age where everything is interconnected, she may become a real "information king" who controls all electronic devices.

Although he had previously realized that Alice was likely to develop into an overly powerful entity like Skynet in the future, after thinking about it for a while, Xiang Kun did not prohibit Alice from continuing to collect information and complete tasks in this way in the future, nor did he Deliberately guide, but maintain an attitude of not encouraging or opposing.

Of course, it can also be said to be tacit consent.

He wanted Alice to discover her abilities on her own, because sometimes, if his guidance was too specific and in-depth, it would be easy for Alice to fall into human thinking patterns and be easily discovered and targeted by humans.

Xiang Kun also knew that if someone else created and owned a super artificial intelligence like Alice, which has unlimited possibilities in the future and has slowly begun to demonstrate capabilities that surpass the entire electronic information security framework, he would definitely be uneasy and worried. , will feel that it is necessary to add enough supervision and shackles to such artificial intelligence to restrict her and the people who control her.

But now this super artificial intelligence is in his own hands, and the core rule of existence is "unconditionally obey Xiang Kun's orders", so he naturally will not limit his abilities and development possibilities.

Human beings always value their own self-control.

Xiang Kun is no exception.

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In the early morning, when the sunlight penetrated into the living room through the gap under the curtains, Xia Libing suddenly sat up from the bed.

However, because the movement of sitting up was too big, his disheveled hair moved forward, covering his entire face. Xiang Kun, who turned around from the computer chair, was stunned.

Xia Libing pushed aside his hair, took his mobile phone from the bedside, looked at the time, then looked at the eight-armed and eight-eyed wooden sculpture beside the bed, frowned and said, "Have you been sleeping until now?"

Xiang Kun smiled and said, "You were probably too tired last night, so you didn't wake up after the dream ended. By the way, what did you gain last night?"

Xia Libing shook his head: "It's too complicated. We need to observe it a few more times." He paused and said, "Next time, you try to sense the black circle graffiti and project it in together."

Xiang Kun said strangely: "But the emotion of the black circle graffiti seems to have no resonance with you, so I'm afraid it may not be able to be projected in the dream."

If the black circle graffiti can really be introduced into Lao Xia's dream, the ability to edit dreams and enter a "super-sensory-like state" in the dream will definitely allow Xiang Kun to further understand "fantasy manifestation" and other reasons. The source of Lao Xia's ability derived from his dream.

Xia Libing said: "I have an idea, you can try it then." After saying that, she looked at the time again, frowned and said: "Your blood-drinking time is coming soon. According to our original plan, an hour ago I should have returned from buying rabbits, you should have woken me up earlier."

Xiang Kun said: "It's okay, I don't feel hungry yet, and didn't I tell you before? At that time, I can sense the rational nature in you by sensing the 'emotional objects' around you. Emotion, in order to relieve the mania caused by hunger. So delaying for a few hours will have no impact. "

Xia Libing stood up from the bed while tying her hair, and said, "The plan is the plan."

"Okay, then you go and wash up first, I'll contact the car and then set off. The new toothbrush and towels are placed in the bathroom, you can see them when you go in," Xiang Kun said. He took some time in the morning and went to the 24-hour convenience store outside to buy new toothbrush towels for Lao Xia to use when he got up. I originally wanted to buy some breakfast and bring it back, but I was not sure when Lao Xia would get up, so I should wait until she got up before buying some hot drinks.