Morris seemed a little uneasy. He was in a cabin below deck, which was actually a sailor's room.
The tonnage of the cargo ship is very large, in the 10,000-ton level, so although the facilities in the crew's room are not high-end, they are still better than those on ordinary small ships. They are at least spacious, with beds, desks, and separate toilets.
Morris couldn't remember how many times he went to the bathroom. Besides himself, there was another person in his room, a guy named Eric, nicknamed Thor.
In fact, he didn't drink much water, but he had some urgency to urinate.
Every time he goes in and out of the bathroom, Thor, who is reclining on the small sofa at the door with a magazine, will reveal his unique Nordic deep eyes from the top edge of the book, and his blue pupils are like sharp arrows.
Morris felt a sense of being pierced.
The look in this guy's eyes was indeed unsettling, and it always made Morris feel like he had a ray of light on his back.
But in Thor's eyes, Morris is simply a freak.
After entering the room, I didn't see how much water the guy drank, but he did go to the toilet at least ten times.
"Maurice, is there something wrong with your kidneys? Do you want me to find a doctor?"
For the last time, Eric the God of Thunder couldn't help it anymore. He was annoyed that the fat man was walking around in front of him, as annoying as a fly.
After being ridiculed by Eric, Maurice finally sat down by his bed, just like a embezzlement criminal in China who was waiting for interrogators to come and question him. He just sat there and played with his fingers.
.
That sad face and expression was like a little white rabbit thrown into a pack of big bad wolves.
For Morris, what he is most worried about now is what purpose these people who brought him to this ship have for him.
Although Qin Fei repeatedly emphasized that he would not kill himself, he just wanted to unlock the damn hard drive by himself.
However, Morris knew his weight on the CIA's internal wanted list. As long as someone took his head to find the CIA, he would definitely receive a generous bounty.
No one can say whether Qin Fei will use it after letting him unlock the protection program of the hard drive, shoot himself in the head, take a picture and send it to the CIA to collect the reward.
There are too many people who want to kill me.
"Eric." Qin Fei pushed open the door and said to Eric, "Where is that boy?"
"Inside." Eric mouthed toward the bed in the room.
Qin Fei walked in and saw Morris who was embarrassed.
He walked to the bed, pulled a chair, placed it in front of Morris and sat down.
"Professor, I think you should know why I am looking for you without me repeating it."
"I know... it's that hard drive... Fake... What I regret most in my life is that I designed the protection program for that hard drive for CIA... But I really don't know what they are used for, let alone that hard drive.
What's inside? I'm just a programmer who designs programs, a coder..."
Maurice was talking like a machine gun in his mouth. He kept explaining to Qin Fei how his original intention of making this software was out of his own control, and how he had no idea about the purpose of the program.
Qin Fei raised his hand and interrupted Morris.
"What I want to know is not this. What I want to know is, can you unlock that program?"
"Yes...not necessarily...maybe..."
Morris lowered his head, and his voice was like a humming mosquito, and even he couldn't hear clearly.
Qin Fei couldn't laugh or cry, this guy looked frightened.
So he smiled and said: "Hey! You'd better think clearly before answering me. You must know that your only value in my eyes is to decrypt the hard drive. If you can't even do this, I will regret risking your life to remove you from the cornerstone project."
If you were rescued from the hands of others, I might as well throw you into the sea right now and let you feed the sharks."
This sentence completely frightened Maurice to the point where he stood up from the bed.
"No, no, no, I know how to decrypt it. I designed the program. No one in the world can decrypt this program except the CIA holder of the key."
Qin Fei motioned for Morris to sit down: "Don't be nervous, I was just joking."
After looking at Morris for a while, he said: "You, Yuri, and Xiaolin are all top hackers on the dark web. They have tried various methods and spent a whole month without unlocking your program. Could it be?
Are you much more skilled than both of them?"
The mention of procedures touched upon Morris's old profession, which immediately made him energetic.
"No, if we just talk about their level, they are indeed a little bit behind me, but they are not that far behind."
Morris said: "They just didn't understand my skills in designing this program. Of course, even if they knew it, they couldn't solve it, because the reason why they can't solve it is not the skill of the programmer who decrypted it, but the program itself.
Design issues.”
Qin Fei became even more confused after hearing this roundabout explanation.
"make it clear."
"Actually, it's very simple. There are no passwords or programs in this world that cannot be cracked. We just haven't found the right method. When I committed a crime and was recruited by the CIA, they asked me to create such a program.
It is a program that no one can decrypt except those who have the key, and the program is required to be like a lock. Everyone’s door lock is different and cannot be opened with the same key..."
"You know..." Morris said with a slightly embarrassed expression, "I originally didn't have much interest in working for CIA, but they can help me get rid of the crime of illegally intruding servers and databases, so I
I just agreed, not to mention that this job is indeed very challenging..."
Qin Fei interrupted him and said: "Wait a minute, you said that Achilles' heel is like the lock on everyone's door. There is no universal key, and each lock only has one key?"
"You can understand it that way." Morris spread his hands.
Qin Fei had an idea in his mind.
cia's requirements are very useful.
Because even if you are a designer, if you design a security program, and every security device of the same type used by different equipment manufacturers has a specific key, that is to say, even the designer himself may not be able to determine which one to use.
Only the key can be unlocked.
This is equivalent to greatly reducing the harm of future designers to this confidential software.
But this gave Qin Fei new doubts.
So he asked: "If every Achilles' Heel in use has a different key, why do the people in the Cornerstone Project want to get rid of you?"
Morris said: "Because I only designed four programs in total, each of which was equipped with a separate key device, and then I found a way to fake death to escape from CIA surveillance, so they knew that I had the ability to unlock four programs.
Because I was extra careful during the design and left a fatal backdoor, which is why I named the program Achilles' Heel."
"So, can you decrypt it now? I have a laptop here." Qin Fei said, "I also have the hard drive. If you can, you can start working now."
"No, it can't be decrypted now." After Morris finished speaking, he felt that he had offended Qin Fei by saying this, so he added: "It's not that I can't decrypt it for you, it's because the conditions here are limited and it's impossible to decrypt it. The decryption process requires
Special equipment, and as I said just now, the reason why others cannot crack this program is not because their skills are low, but because they simply don’t know the techniques I used to design this confidential software."
"What do you mean?" Qin Fei thought this matter sounded interesting.
"It's very simple, because the Achilles Heel installed on every hard disk is not a complete program, it is just a defective product, understand? A defective product."
"What do you mean? The program is defective?" Qin Fei was really confused.
Morris became proud again, feeling as if everyone was drunk but I was alone.
"That's right, every Achilles' heel is like a puzzle, and it's a puzzle that's missing one piece. It's incomplete. It may seem complete, but in fact, no matter how you put it together, you feel like something is missing. That's right.
Because of this, the security program will be locked and cannot be opened. Every time you open a hard drive that uses Achilles' Heel, you need to use a unique physical key to connect to the hard drive's interface, and then enter the specified digital password to open it.
The reason for this is that there is actually a memory chip inside the physical key, which is the missing piece of the puzzle in the program. It is a piece of program code. When the hard disk is running, the code will automatically fill in the Achilles' heel flaw.
, and then you can enter the decryption mode, do you understand?"
Qin Fei asked: "What equipment do you want?"
Morris said: "Specialized satellite link equipment, military-grade computers with extremely high computing speeds, these are not comparable to ordinary retail computers."
Then, he suddenly added: "By the way, a sealed black room that blocks signals."
Qin Fei immediately remembered the sealed operation room that Yuri and Xiaolin had built in the Comoro Palace before, but unfortunately it was later blown up by the mi17 agent, the multi-faceted Red.
In this case, we can only go back to the contract and find a way to get these equipment.
"Okay, you will make a list of the equipment you need. I will have someone fax it over immediately and prepare everything for you. This time we go back to Africa. There is one of my military training bases there. You will be safe there.
, when the time comes, we will be able to decipher Achilles’ heel.”
"That's no problem, but after decrypting it, can you let me go?" Morris asked.
Qin Fei nodded and said: "Yes, as long as you open the hard drive and I get the information inside, I can personally guarantee your safety, provide you with a new identity, and give you freedom."
Morris shook his head and said: "No, I need two people's identities, two people's new identities. I don't want a reward, I just need you to help me arrange the two people's new identities."
"Two people?" Qin Fei was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "You and your girlfriend? Do you have a girlfriend?"
"It's not my girlfriend, it's my mother!" Morris said. (To be continued)