Chapter 1108: Clues

"If I win, he must destroy all the data stolen from us and ensure that no byte will be leaked."
"Huh? What if he won?" Tan Zhenhua was not surprised by the conditions McGregor put forward. He was interested in what conditions the hacker would put forward.
"I lost him 40,000 US dollars, oh, to be precise, it was 39,998 US dollars. I have to pay within a week. If I pay the money in time, he will also promise to destroy the data. Otherwise, he will selectively Disclosing our information will also launch a larger-scale attack on the computer system of our "Matrix" laboratory."
"Isn't this kidnapping? Our data and computers are just a ticket, and he is the kidnapper. If we can't agree, he will tear the ticket." Guo Zhaode said dissatisfiedly: "And what kind of kidnapper? Whole?"
"He said, he wants to buy a new computer. SGI just launched this year. It is equipped with a top-of-the-line version with 4 MIPSR3-100CPUs, 16MB of memory and 100MB of hard drives. The retail price of that computer is $39,998." Mike Greg said frustratedly, "That's a lot of money, boss, can I apply for reimbursement?"
"No!" Tan Zhenhua replied categorically, "Mike, in fact, you have completed your duties after you saw all the computers offline the first time you noticed him peeping, and everything that happened afterwards, including your and his betting , It’s entirely out of your personal eagerness to compete, and it has nothing to do with your own job. Therefore, I will not agree to reimburse you for this money, um, or you can discuss it directly with the hacker He is the real thing, so you can save a lot of money."
A gleam of light flashed in McGregor's eyes, and then quickly dimmed, and continued to cry with a sad face: "I know that if I give the real thing, I can save half, and Jim can definitely give me five at the "internal transfer price." Discounted price calculation, but the most taboo of hackers is to expose their personal information, and something as big as an SGI graphics workstation, no matter how it is given to him, may expose him, so he will definitely not agree to this condition. If it were me, I would rather ask for money and then buy it myself."
"It might be exposed with money?" Guo Zhaode, who had been in the audience for a long time, asked puzzledly: "If it is a bank transfer, it will leave a trace. It is easy to find out from the bank's system. If it is cash, it will be more important. It's simple, just send someone to stare at it."
"He asked me to use bank transfers." McGregor replied: "He also gave me a bank account, which is from Citibank, but I think we may not find any valuable information from this clue. I am afraid that even the FBI may not be able to call the user information of banks like Citi, because Citi will definitely not take the risk of being infamy for leaking user information, and I seriously suspect that at this level of hackers, He may have invaded the Citibank system long ago and left a secret door there, and he has a way to erase his traces."
Tan Zhenhua thought for a while and said: "Maybe you don't need to find the FBI... Regardless of whether it is useful or not, we still have to take some monitoring measures for this account. Well, leave this to me. Also Mike, you and this person After the contest for so long, have you found anything?"
McGregor’s face suddenly collapsed, and he replied in frustration: "Eric, although I don’t want to admit it, it’s the truth-my understanding of the network and application skills of assembly language are much worse than this person. So, only at the beginning, I tried to attack him a few times, but he was quickly beaten back. In the following time, he was always attacking, and I could only passively defend. Eric, you can see that, none of the three of us were able to defend this man’s offense. So, I hardly got any useful information about him."
"That's it..." Tan Zhenhua was disappointed, and then asked a little unwillingly: "Is there really no useful information at all?"
McGregor held his head and carefully recalled the experience of his fight against the opponent for a while, before hesitatingly said: "There is a little bit of information, but I'm not sure it's useful."
"What is it?" Tan Zhenhua and Guo Zhaode asked almost in unison.
"The IP address of the computer used by the attacker has been technically processed and switched between multiple pseudo-addresses. I guess it is likely that this person controlled multiple computers to fight me, and this, I am afraid that he can overcome One of my reasons—for security reasons, I cannot use more than one central server, especially the central server with the strongest computing power, to fight against him, because that is too dangerous and it is equivalent to owning our "Matrix" laboratory. His core secrets are exposed to him, and although he is a person, he can unscrupulously mobilize all the computers that have been invaded and controlled by him to attack me. I can clearly feel that at least one of them has very powerful computing power. , It should be a high-end minicomputer or even a supercomputing level computer."
"Supercomputing?!" Guo Zhaode exaggeratedly exaggerated--As a financial expert, he knew the power of supercomputing too much, because such a huge machine was installed in the nest of "Red Flag Capital", IBM Produced, the computing power of billions per second is the upper limit of computer performance approved by the United States for export to units related to China.
Although Guo Zhaode doesn't know how this computer works, at least he knows that without it, the vast array of data gathered from all over the world every day cannot be processed at all.
"Yes, I think it might be a supercomputer, and I know the approximate deployment location of that computer, because I parsed out its first few address codes. This is probably the only result I have achieved."
"where is it?"
"In California, Los Angeles, there is no more specific location. I'm sorry, Eric, I only know this."
Guo Zhaode shook his head and sighed: "In a city as big as Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 4 million, there are so many banks, universities, government agencies, public utilities, and large enterprises. Almost every such unit has minicomputers in service, even if it is super There may be a lot. How can I find this? So this is almost meaningless information."
McGregor also sighed: "Yes, and I only know that the other party controls such a computer, but it is entirely possible that he is controlling it through the network, but he is thousands of miles away, so I just said , I’m not sure if this information is useful."
"it works."
Tan Zhenhua, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "Mike, are you interested in earning a sum of $39,998 in extra money?"