The National Security Agency (NSA) is located in a forest at Fort Meade. As the most secretive intelligence organization in the United States, the NSA has always hired the best mathematicians, computer scientists and linguists in the world to work for it.
The NSA has thousands of listening stations around the world. They monitor the entire earth from every corner of the earth, ocean, sky and even the universe. This information provides important reference for the United States' decision-making to control the world.
Fukuyama, a Japanese American, is an excellent communications and computer expert. His job is to work with hundreds of colleagues to ensure that the NSA's huge satellite monitoring network can operate normally. But today he suddenly discovered that there was a problem with a defense communications satellite.
, a transponder on this satellite is not working.
"Hi..., a DSCS-3 satellite has failed, and one of its transponders no longer responds to our commands." Fukuyama said to the white colleagues next to him. As a Japanese, he habitually reported to his superiors
Discuss it with your colleagues before reporting.
Fukuyama's white colleague frowned. He confirmed the situation on his monitoring station, "You are right, there is indeed a problem with one of the transponders. But maybe we should consult NASA first and ask them
Views."
The transponder is a key component of the communication satellite, which is responsible for transmitting radio information. NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and if there is a problem with the satellite, it must be solved by experts.
So Fukuyama sent an inquiry to NASA's ground control station, and was told that the DSCS-3 had been in use for more than ten years and was approaching its lifespan. Problems may indeed occur. However, the specific situation required some testing.
This test lasted only one day, but when Fukuyama came back to work the next day, he received a reply from NASA's ground control station: everything was normal with the satellite and there was no problem with the transponder.
How is this possible? It's obviously not working anymore.
The Japanese became more serious, and Fukuyama began to dig deep into the source of the problem. He found that the transponder was indeed working normally, and it was still working at full capacity, and it refused other commands.
It's so weird, a lot of data is being transmitted from the geostationary satellite's transponder, which means it has been working for at least a full day. This is wrong, who user will monopolize a transponder for a whole day? And by then
The data transfer is not finished yet.
Fukuyama immediately reported the situation to his supervisor, and several National Security Bureau employees began to come to analyze the problem. They first discovered that the transponder was contacting the supercomputing host of the Ministry of Justice and had been reading from the host's database.
A lot of information.
"Damn, this is not normal. Turn off this transponder immediately. Hackers must have invaded us." The supervisor became anxious on the spot. As an organization that specializes in monitoring others, it was hacked. This was a major leak, enough to make someone
A hapless guy goes to jail to spend the rest of his life.
"We can't turn it off." Fukuyama was sweating profusely. When he tried to control the satellite from the ground, he found that the satellite refused to accept instructions. "The hacker has higher control authority than me."
This news is even more shocking than a hacker intrusion. Usually hackers can only take advantage of some vulnerabilities, but now that high-level control rights are actually in the hands of others, the trouble is even greater.
Fukuyama's authority was not enough, so he went to the supervisor; the supervisor's authority was not enough, so a higher-level supervisor was called over. In the end, even the NASA engineers who controlled the satellite on the ground were dumbfounded - the person who controls the satellite now is the one who left the lowest level when it was manufactured.
Control authority is exclusive.
what to do?
This matter was reported to all levels, and the director of the National Security Bureau was called over, but everyone was a little helpless. A satellite tens of thousands of kilometers away from the ground was disobedient, what could they do?
It seems that they have realized that they have been discovered. Originally, there was only one transponder in the dscs-3 that was secretly stealing data. Now, all eight transponders are out of control and transmitting data like crazy.
"Notify the Ministry of Justice immediately and ask them to disconnect the host from the outside world." The director could only think of an impossible solution.
When the Ministry of Justice heard this suggestion, they almost went crazy. Since receiving the notice from the National Security Agency, their mainframe operation and maintenance personnel found that their data in the past two years had been turned upside down, and no secrets were lost!
Even the Minister of Justice cannot handle such a catastrophic event!
Do you want me to disconnect the host from the outside world? This is even more of a joke. This disconnection will shut down government systems across the United States, because the official document transmission channel of everyone at the top of the U.S. government relies on the host of the Department of Justice.
If this is disconnected, all civil servants will be off work, and they won't be able to do their work anyway.
Just when this incident alarmed the president, the National Security Agency sent another alert - the Ministry of Finance quickly disconnected the satellite communication interface. Now hackers have invaded your central host.
Damn..., this is a big deal!
The Ministry of Finance was much happier than the Ministry of Justice. The Minister of Finance did not want to end up in the same embarrassing situation as the Ministry of Justice, so he quickly disconnected the physical connection. Now it was fun, the national financial system was paralyzed in minutes.
This scene made Americans collectively stunned, especially the Ministry of Finance host was disconnected, and the IRS, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Finance, also stopped. The IRS, which claims to be able to run rampant in the United States, finally discovered that it had always been frightened and was actually disconnected from the Internet.
It was ruined.
But the Treasury Department was not the first to be unlucky. Next, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy, and other important U.S. departments began to disconnect themselves from satellite communications. The usually convenient network was over.
That's it.
In the end, Americans found themselves saying goodbye to the Internet age in the blink of an eye. Only wired telephones and faxes were the most reliable. Although this situation only lasted a few hours before returning to normal, it was enough to make people feel extremely frightened.
This is the second fucking 911!
Hey..., have we said this before?
Of course, Americans feel that it is better for the IRS to continue to disconnect. They do not want this agency to restart work at all.
In the White House, President Yingjiang was furious, "This is a terrorist attack. Who did it? Is there any organization claiming to be involved in this matter? We must catch this terrorist who dares to provoke the United States."
However, the director of the National Security Agency who first reported the incident lowered his head and said: "Due to major loopholes in the existing secure communication mechanism, we are busy replacing all satellite communication hardware throughout the government. As for the attacker of this incident,
We are still investigating."
To put it bluntly, it’s because the opponent’s level is extraordinary and I haven’t caught him yet!
The president felt that he was completely useless.
In the library of the University of Chicago, when Fukuyama wanted to regain control of the satellite transponder, the highly intelligent black box sounded an alarm. Zhou Qingfeng and others were trying to extend their black hands to the U.S. Treasury Department, but found that the Treasury Department
Simply disconnected.
As soon as the Ministry of Finance was disconnected, all other US government departments were disconnected without Zhou Qingfeng's action. Damn it, the Americans have already discovered it, so run away! He yelled, "The wind is tight, pull it!" and ran away with the black box.
The Americans' quick response and extravagant actions were even more eye-catching. They directly used their strategic reserves to deal with a nuclear war and launched dozens of backup communication satellites of various types into the sky at one go.
And the communication mechanism and protocol have been completely revised.
The strength of the great power behind this was astonishing, and the U.S. government quickly returned to normal. The investigation was fully launched, and the black box brought by Zhou Qingfeng was naturally temporarily unusable.
Yingjiang, you are so cruel!
Fortunately, I already have all the data and information I want.