I am weak and friendly

Chapter 116 This is bad, I'm really being watched by the big boss!
This time, the upgrade of the prosthetic body was completed faster than Tang Yiping had imagined.

Moreover, it actually upgraded directly from a [low-level incomplete prosthetic body] to a [supermodel incomplete prosthetic body], which made Tang Yiping have to complain.

Just how weak are prosthetic bodies?

My own [FORE] is actually supermodel-worthy for this thing.

Don't you know how rubbish your own writing is?
Consider Lola and Lux's daily behavior.

Tang Yiping felt that he might...

You can't rely too much on this; you still have to work hard yourself.

Before his prosthetic body awakened, Tang Yiping had considered writing something to search for LuoHan and related information.

The amount of information on the internet is enormous, and personal information is a sensitive topic, so most of it is hidden behind encryption and access restrictions.

Tang Yiping felt that he couldn't mindlessly traverse the entire network, because the internet generates massive amounts of data every second, and he needed a sophisticated algorithm to solve this problem.

Then he thought of the six degrees of separation theory.

According to the six degrees of separation theory, it takes an average of six steps to establish a connection between any two people.

This is also supported by mathematics. According to psychological research, on average each person maintains contact with 260 people. 260 to the power of 6 is 300 trillion, which is enough to cover the entire human population on Earth many times over. Statistically speaking, the number of people who cannot be contacted is already very small.

From an algorithmic perspective, finding any specific person, starting from the perspective of interpersonal relationships, can be seen as an optimal solution with only six steps.

Then Tang Yiping realized... Hey, theoretically speaking, isn't this just FORK?
No wonder the prosthetic body uses [FORK] as its pathfinding module.

Of course, this is the way of computing in the pre-internet era. Modern people's ways of contacting others are completely different. To some extent, computers and mobile phones have taken over and expanded a person's "contact list." Although the total number of stable social relationships for each person has not increased, and the excessive number of social relationships and the amplified social networks have drastically deepened human anxiety, the number of people that each person comes into contact with has indeed become ridiculously large.

This process may be shortened further.

Tang Yiping obtained the USB drive from Shushu, so it is highly likely that LuoHan appeared or even lived in Hailing or the software park area twelve years ago.

If we only consider people who have been to or lived in Hailing, the number might only be tens of millions; if they have appeared near the software park, the number might only be a few million.

More than a decade ago, people who were into cryptocurrency were usually tech-savvy individuals, surrounded by a group of tech people.

So maybe someone you know has had contact with him before.

In other words, it only takes two or three steps to connect yourself with Rohan.

The problem is that the two or three steps involved are like shooting an arrow before drawing the target; the optimal solution can only be determined when the result is known.

If you don't know the optimal path, how can you find it?
Tang Yiping remembers the "six degrees of separation" experiment. The person conducting the experiment sent a letter to the person they thought was most likely to contact someone, and then that person sent a letter to the person they thought was most likely to contact.

This is more like social engineering, treating humans themselves as nodes in an algorithm, with each node running a "guessing algorithm".

Then Tang Yiping began to think about how to use [FORK] to simulate each node, and how to concretize the abstract path into a path that FORK could understand...

Hey, isn't this just a prosthetic body and an information ocean?
Tang Yiping felt that writing a new program would be like reinventing the wheel, rediscovering the prosthetic body and the information ocean.

Putting aside the possibility of it being possible, the amount of work involved was also beyond his capabilities.

Of course, there's also a clumsy method.

That is to replicate the six degrees of separation experiment and consider someone you are most likely to know who understood and enjoyed playing with cryptocurrencies twelve years ago.

Which expert said that social engineering is the most powerful?

When asked about the most likely candidates, two people came to Tang Yiping's mind.

Ze Ge and 5090.

The former is a tech-savvy young woman, while the latter is an expert in the field of security.

Cryptocurrencies are actually closely related to the field of security.

Tang Yiping asked Brother Ze first.

“Twelve years ago, I was just starting high school…” Ze Ge frowned. “Back then, I wanted to get into cryptocurrency, but I was living in the dorms and didn’t have a chance to use a computer… I dreamed of secretly bringing a laptop to school, and I even secretly took odd jobs for it… Wait, Pingzi, how old do you think I am? Do you think I’m already an old auntie?!”

Emmmmm... She's old enough to call someone "Uncle-Master"!

But we absolutely cannot admit it!
Run!

"I should ask 5090," Tang Yiping thought for a moment, then opened the forum and sent a message to 5090.

……

Chen Yanxing scrambled to the door, unplugged the network cable, and then cut off the power with lightning speed.

The room went dark again, with only the light from the window remaining.

Wait, how do you say "again"?

When Chen Yanxing turned around again, he saw his friends, all of them pale-faced and trembling, almost scared to death.

Just now, in a mere five minutes, they experienced the most exhilarating, overwhelming, and unparalleled invasion they had ever witnessed in their lives.

They were the ones who were hacked.

The opponent's methods were like mercury spilling onto the ground, impossible to defend against.

The defenses they built, which they considered impregnable and unbreakable, were like a sieve to the enemy.

No, it's as if it never existed at all.

Fear and devastation left them all looking ashen-faced and lifeless.

It seems that they are all dead.

The old man in the wheelchair was swaying his limbs uncontrollably while watching himself like he was watching a monkey show.

Wait, why does this scene look so familiar?

Wait, why did I say "again" just now?
Wait a minute, I had that feeling before too.

Wait, last time it was a big shot!

Wait, could it be...

With his team, he disassembled countless hard drives, took his laptop, and went into the villa's specially reinforced electromagnetic shielding room, powered independently by a generator, where not a single bit could be transmitted. He spent several hours reviewing the situation.

They discovered that during this intrusion, the attackers were searching for information about "luohan".

"LuoHan? What is LuoHan?"

"It sounds like a name."

Why look for LuoHan?

His friends were all talking about it.

But he frowned deeply.

After reconnecting to the network, it seemed that no one in the L forum, except him, had discovered that they had been hacked.

He then received a private message:
"Excuse me, do you know someone named LuoHan?"

The information was sent by the expert 0xT1P.

At that moment, Chen Yanxing felt both grief and relief.

The big shot has revealed their hand! The big shot is no longer pretending! The big shot has personally sent a warning!
"What a fool!" He slapped himself hard. "Why did you have to use social engineering on the big boss!"

He felt he should carefully consider how to reply, but he was also afraid that the big boss would get impatient and angry. In a fierce internal struggle, he typed a few words:

"Boss, please have mercy! Just ask me whatever you want to know!"

Even if you want to know how many times I wet the bed as a child, I will answer truthfully. Please stop messing with me! It's too much of a headache!

The big shot: "???"

So you're going to pretend, huh? Fine, then you'll pretend!

Okay, go ahead and pretend if you want, I'll play along.

Chen Yanxing quickly changed the subject, saying, "I've heard of LuoHan many years ago. He's an algorithm guru, practically a legend in our industry..."

(End of this chapter)