Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 161: No match at all

When Renren.com quickly became popular among college students, no one could have imagined that the founder of the website would set up his startup base on the second floor of a Sichuan restaurant.

When Tang Jiakai returned to his dormitory, he described the situation in detail to his five roommates. After listening, the five of them shouted excitedly.

When Chen Cheng returned to his dormitory, he immediately turned on his computer and began to observe the data in the backend.

That night, the number of users exploded, reaching 60,000 by the time the dormitory lights were turned off.

Among them, the number of registered users of Jiangnan University has exceeded 10,000.

This is mainly because the new user acquisition campaign is too attractive to Jiangnan University students. Without anyone's encouragement, a large number of students from the university are frantically recruiting new users.

Some of the users who were brought in also wanted to try the activity, so they were frantically recruiting new users.

The campus network has become a sensation on Jiangnan University campus in just two days since its launch.

As the number of users on the school's intranet increased, the popularity of the Galo Forum began to plummet.

Previously, the forum lost a large number of active users and its reputation was greatly affected by banning users who mentioned Renren.

Even after the new user acquisition campaign started today, a group of users who weren't afraid of being banned still went to the Galo forum to post, hoping to attract users to register accounts and follow them.

Yang Siqi was furious, but he dared not ban users anymore, so he had to change his strategy to delete posts and ban users from speaking.

He felt that banning users only prevented them from posting and replying, but at least users could still log in, browse, and continue using the service.

But he overestimated the appeal of the Galo Forum.

Almost without exception, those users who were banned immediately ceased all activity on the Galo forum, and even stopped browsing other posts.

Seeing the forum's popularity plummet, Yang Siqi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

He couldn't help but urge Chen Wei: "Why is the campus network still running stably? Aren't our accounts enough to bring down his server bandwidth?"

Chen Wei said, "There are already more than a thousand accounts, and the situation hasn't changed at all. When we ping their servers, the response speed is not affected at all."

At this point, Chen Wei admitted, "I suspect they have some way to directly determine that our accounts are problematic. With a little backend processing, they can block our attacks. And to be honest, I really don't understand hacking techniques, so I don't have any good solutions."

Yang Siqi had a sudden inspiration and immediately said, "Log in with any account and see if you can open Yan Ruoxuan's photo album. If you can, it proves there's no problem. If you can't open it, then they've done something sneaky!"

Chen Wei thought it made sense, so he immediately stopped the script and logged in on the school's intranet page using one of the usernames and passwords. To his surprise, after logging in, the page returned a 404 error code to him.

He exclaimed in surprise, "I can't even open the homepage of this account!"

Yang Siqi immediately refreshed her account.

His account was not involved in the attack, so it was not blocked by the school's backend. Therefore, he could easily access the homepage and Yan Ruoxuan's photo album.

Yang Siqi then realized that all the hard work he and his team had put into attacking the enemy for so long had been in vain, as the enemy had already blocked the attack.

It's like you're in a fog, setting up hundreds or thousands of catapults to throw stones at the enemy's city walls, thinking that all the stones you're throwing are hitting the walls. In reality, the enemy has already dug a bottomless pit, and all the stones you're throwing are like stones sinking into the sea, having no effect on the enemy at all.

He was furious and cursed, "This guy is too damn cunning! He's been cunning from the very beginning! No, we have to think of another way!"

After saying that, he asked Chen Wei, "Could you run a batch test of their website's login mechanism?"

"What do you mean?"

Chen Wei was completely confused.

Yang Siqi said, "It's just a matter of modifying the script to make these accounts and passwords log in repeatedly, generating a large number of login requests in a short period of time, and crashing the campus network's login mechanism!"

Chen Wei said awkwardly, "There's no way. They have a verification mechanism, which is an addition and subtraction problem within ten. Whether you register or log in, you have to fill in the answer to a math problem. Only if you fill it in correctly can you get in. This is specifically designed to distinguish between humans and bots. With this mechanism in place, we can't use scripts to run many accounts to log in at the same time."

Yang Siqi, somewhat losing his temper, blurted out, "Then how exactly do we get rid of him? If we don't think of a way soon, in less than three days, all the users on the Galo Forum who like to chat and post nonsense will be gone. The only users left will probably be those in the specialized sections, and those users won't even make up a quarter of the daily active users!" Chen Wei spread his hands: "President Yang, I'm really not good at this kind of technology. To put it bluntly, we're trying to drown someone with our spittle; the chances of success are too small. We still need to find professionals like Tang Jiakai. They have plenty of ways to find vulnerabilities on the front end of a website. Maybe there's a fatal vulnerability on some page on Renren.com, but I can't find it."

Yang Siqi's expression was grim as she gritted her teeth and said, "I'm going to find Tang Jiakai!"

After saying that, he slammed the door and went straight to his dormitory.
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At this moment, Tang Jiakai was having a meeting with his five roommates.

He's a smart man and knows that this is a rare opportunity, so he's eager to put in all his effort and achieve something.

Although the other five roommates were not very clear about the prospects of Renren.com, they were also attracted by the generous salary and benefits and wanted to seize this opportunity.

Actually, everyone here is a computer science student, and their main focus is on development. However, Tang Jiakai is more obsessed with network security, so he devotes most of his energy to security issues.

Therefore, he defined the role of the other five people in the dormitory as product development.

He told the five people, "Your first task after we start working will probably be to develop a BBS forum. I suggest you first learn about the BBS code and some key product functions. Once the site is ready, hurry up and develop the first function."

One of them asked curiously, "Jiakai, isn't Renren.com supposed to be a personal homepage? Are we going to turn it into a BBS too?"

"Correct."

Tang Jiakai said, "BBS is the next product feature, but how it will be implemented will depend on the boss's specific needs. It's always good to prepare in advance."

At this point, he added, "However, everyone must be careful to keep this a secret. Once you start working, you must not reveal what we are doing or who our boss is. I can tell you that the boss is very powerful and quite low-key. Our employment is a private matter and there are no labor laws to protect us. If you are fired for leaking information, you will only have yourself to regret it!"

The group immediately stated that even if Tang Jiakai told them not to keep it a secret, they wouldn't dare to publicize their high income.

Just as Tang Jiakai was giving a pep talk to his roommates, there was a sudden knock on the dormitory door.

Before Tang Jiakai could speak, the other person pushed the door open and entered.

When he saw that the person who came in was Yang Siqi, he couldn't help but frown and ask, "What brings Chairman Yang here?"

Yang Siqi chuckled twice and said, "Jiakai, I'd like to have a good talk with you. If it's convenient, let's talk outside for a while?"

Tang Jiakai stated directly, "President Yang, I have already withdrawn from the Galo Forum. If what you want to talk to me about is related to the Galo Forum, then I'm sorry, we can't talk."

Yang Siqi was surprised that he still wouldn't give her any face. Feeling embarrassed, she retorted with a hint of threat, "Tang Jiakai, what good will it do you to go against me?"

Tang Jiakai said seriously, "President Yang, I'm not going against you, I just don't want to work with you anymore."

Seeing that he wasn't afraid of turning against him, Yang Siqi changed tactics and said with a smile, "Jiakai, I've had a meeting with Chen Wei and the others. Creating Xiaonei.com is too easy for us. In a few days at most, we can develop an identical website, or even a website that's better than Xiaonei.com. If you can help everyone eliminate the competitors, when our Xiaonei.com goes live, it will definitely have a greater development prospect than Galo Forum. At that time, I can give you 10% of the shares."

Tang Jiakai shook his head and smiled, saying, "President Yang, as I said, I only do website security, not hacking. If you want to compete with Renren.com, then make a better product than them and compete with them openly. If you want to use attack methods, you can find other people to help you, but I definitely will not cooperate with you again."

Yang Siqi never expected that Tang Jiakai would so blatantly disregard her dignity.

He had considered developing a website with the same functions as Renren.com, but Chen Wei had said that the development time might be quite long. He was eager for revenge, so he told Chen Wei to focus his energy on how to destroy Renren.com.

If we can't take down Renren.com, it will take a long time for us to develop a similar product. By then, Renren.com will probably have already taken off, and our Galo Forum will definitely be stagnant.

He stared at Tang Jiakai with resentment in his eyes and said coldly, "Tang Jiakai, we're classmates, and you're not even willing to help with this little thing? Don't blame me for being ruthless if anything happens in the future."

Tang Jiakai wasn't worried at all. He just said seriously, "President Yang, to be honest, you've seen how Renren.com operates. Not only has it opened a printing shop, but it's also launching a new user acquisition campaign with prize money of several thousand yuan. Do you think it won't hire a security manager for Renren.com? Even if you find a way to attack it, it will probably be in vain. In this situation, it's more practical to focus on developing your own product."

Yang Siqi felt a surge of nervousness.

He understood the implication in Tang Jiakai's words: Tang Jiakai must have come prepared and was very wealthy, making him impossible to defeat in any aspect. In other words, he was no match for Tang Jiakai at all.

Continuing to try to attack the other party is probably pointless; they may have a professional security team supporting them.

My most important task right now is to maintain the popularity of the Galo forum. It would be even better if I could create a campus network based on the Galo forum!

(End of this chapter)