Chapter 360
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How was it exposed?
“Lin Xian?”
Suddenly.
A call from Chu Shanhe across from him snapped Lin Xian back to reality.
Chu Shanhe looked at Lin Xian:
“What’s wrong, Lin Xian?
You look preoccupied.
Did meeting Dean Gao Yan shake you up?”
“No, no.”
Lin Xian smiled:
“I was thinking about something else, about personal privacy…
It feels like nowadays, with all the high-tech and big data, everyone doesn’t seem to have any privacy or secrets.
It’s like we’re transparent, with no sense of security.”
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“I see.”Chu Shanhe gave a slight smile:
“You’re worried about the ‘World Hacker Competition,’ aren’t you?”
Lin Xian was taken aback:
“No, that’s not what I’m talking about.
But…”
Suddenly, he became interested:
“But what’s this ‘World Hacker Competition’ you’re talking about?
Does it have any relation to what I was just mentioning about personal privacy and secrets?”
“Isn’t it?” Chu Shanhe was also surprised as he looked at Lin Xian:
“I thought that’s what you were worried about.
It’s been causing quite a stir online recently and has even alerted national security.”
As he spoke, he picked up a tablet computer from the bar on the private plane.
This private plane was equipped with a satellite network system, so even at high altitudes in the stratosphere, it could still connect to network signals.
After some operations, Chu Shanhe handed over the tablet computer:
“It’s this year’s ‘World Hacker Competition.’ It’s making a lot of noise this year, unlike in previous years when few paid attention.”
Lin Xian took the tablet and looked at the news on it.
“The 2023 World Hacker Competition is about to kick off!”
The news read that this year’s World Hacker Competition Pwn2Own would take place in New York, Mi Country, in ten plus days, on September 17th.
At the mention, Lin Xian remembered.
Although he didn’t pay much attention to the hacker domain, he had heard of the famous competition Pwn2Own.
Pwn2Own, commonly known as the World Hacker Competition, is the most famous and richest hacker competition in the world.
Organized by a network security service provider of the Pentagon in Mi Country, it’s an annual event, and could be considered a festival for computer technology enthusiasts worldwide.
In this competition, teams from various countries show their skills in attacking security organizations and internet companies worldwide, aiming to gain control as the criterion for victory.
For years now, tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe have been sponsoring this event annually, with the goal of having hackers exploit vulnerabilities in their products and thereby further improve their products and advance network security.
In general, it is a competition with a very positive significance that promotes global network security awareness and technology advancement.
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It’s not the kind of game where a bunch of hackers gather to cause destruction and play pranks, as people might intuitively think.
At the same time, the performance of each competing team in Pwn2Own also represents the cyber attack and defense capabilities of their respective countries.
Both on a national level and among computer enthusiasts, this annual event garners a lot of attention.
Having read this far, Lin Xian looked up at Chu Shanhe:
“I am aware of this competition.
In previous years, the champions hacked Google’s vulnerabilities, Microsoft’s systems, cracked Apple’s iPhones; China’s Tencent Team, and 360 Team seem to have won the championship for two years…
Is there anything special this year?”
Chu Shanhe pointed at the screen:
“Swipe your finger down, check the next news item.”
Lin Xian lowered his head and, following Chu Shanhe’s gesture, slid to the next news item—
“World Hacker Competition Tense as Mi Country Prodigy Targets Dragon Nation’s Skynet!”
?
Lin Xian, intrigued by the sensational news headline, couldn’t help but continue reading.
Skynet, as the name implies, definitely refers to China’s well-known ‘Skynet System.’
As the saying goes, a heaven-reaching net catches everything.
With the existence of the Dragon Nation Skynet System, criminals have nowhere to hide.
In its early days, Skynet was merely about surveillance over public areas through cameras and sensors.
With the maturity of computer and big data technologies in recent years, the Skynet System has been constantly innovating and upgrading.
The current Skynet System is now powerful enough.
Features such as facial recognition, gait recognition, fuzzy identification, and movement tracking have become very basic; the most powerful function of Skynet lies in resource gathering and information analysis.
Within the whole of China, at least billions of various devices are connected to the Skynet System, not just the most basic cameras but also recording systems, sensors, and home appliances, among others.
The Skynet System of today has formed a complete and complex data ecosystem, encapsulating the whereabouts, information, preferences, history, and daily lives of over a billion Chinese people.
If this system were to be breached by hackers…
The consequences would be unimaginable.
Confidential information for all countries and citizens would be exposed, not just the past, but even every minute and second of the future.
The Skynet System could change from China’s guardian god into a deadly weapon in the hands of enemies, monitoring the actions of over a billion people.
It was then that Lin Xian understood why the previously scarcely noticed World Hacker Competition was being discussed so extensively this year.
The news continued, stating that in Mi Country an ingenious young hacker named Kevin Walker had emerged.
He was only sixteen years old, yet he was already “distinguished in service” within the hacker domain, having not only hacked into the Pentagon’s network security system but also infiltrated many countries’ defense systems.