The evolution of "Chinese hackers" in the past 10 years

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Six years ago, "China Eagle" was founded, the hacker WAN chant "We want to be the national elite, we will always fight forever", his classic lines are for bayonets fitted ideals, like Napoleon's army. Now, September 11, 2007, far away in Chengdu, middle-aged white-collar workers, thinking of night snack, and then sadly admitted that today's hacker circle is "Vanity Fair and dyeing", he would prefer to choose "Forever memory."

Gong, a decade ago set up China's first hacker organization-"Green Corps", now even do not want to talk about the past, "it is a history of growth", he said that he has reflected on, reviewed, no longer relive the passion, the lake is not Goodwell (net name). The only news he has now is to create a global Wow-level record-the world's first 23.5-hour-full man.

Despite the word "hacker" (Hacker) from the United States in the late 60, the initial meaning relates only to technology, to the computer elite, who have the greatest potential to tap into computer programs, but in China's short and tumultuous history of hacking, there has been almost no pure time, and it has been bundled and 裹胁, first and foremost patriotic. , and then commercial interests, now a synonym for crime.

"When you try to deconstruct technology with culture, it may develop into science and may develop into witchcraft." "Veteran hacker Alert7 said.

Ten years back, those who have openly patriotic, and in Indonesia, China and the Chinese-American collision in a series of historical events, such as the successful implementation of transnational cyber-attacks, such as the Green Corps, the Chinese Hacker Alliance, the Red-Guest alliance, most of the cloud, or in a non-existent.

The hacker godfather of the year, either mired in the mire of business, or had quietly retired, was replaced by a new generation of vengeance, hackers, and the growing number of cold data on hacker crime.

This is the cruel reality, as Wan said, the bayonet is still, the thought has slipped.

That green and peaceful home!

After two years in prison for hacking into government websites, the world's number one hacker Kevin Mittnick the first real hacker organization. 1997, Shanghai Hacker Gong (Goodwell) applied for a free space in a foreign website and made a mirror site in China for the exchange between hackers, set up "Green Corps". The initiator gong today's explanation is that all out of hobbies and interests, of course, and the same as the pleasure of competition. "Nothing to do with the interests of politics." The name of the Green Corps stems from his beautiful dream, "to build a green and peaceful network world with the discipline and rules of the Corps".

Only one year in 1998, the lineup was at its peak, Gong recalls that no fewer than 5000 registered people, the core team has more than 100 people, distributed in Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai, this includes now has been known as The Godfather class Rocky, solo, small fish, glaciers, banyan, Shei Chaxia and so on.

When the Chinese Internet is still in the beginning, for ordinary people or a strange noun, business interests can not talk about, this makes a bunch of indulge in the challenge technology network enthusiasts, pure habitat. Some of them are college students in their early 20, whose original intention was simple, even without their own computers, sometimes in order to compete for seats in the campus laboratory. They abide by their own hacking standards, and even worship Lei Feng, advocating network technology sharing, mutual assistance, shame on random attacks, not to mention profit?

Glacier, an early member of the Green Corps, said it was only by their own interests and netizens ' encouragement that they wrote the earliest Trojan horse program in China, and he initially just wanted to write a convenient remote control software. Never wanted to become China's most criticized hacker attack software.

Later, the hacker organization of the "Eighth Army" of the Chen Sanbao, was only a "rookie", he said, hackers have their own code of conduct, have their own moral norms, justice, equality, sharing, mutual assistance, "This is a pursuit of excellence and perfect spirit."

Red Guest, National Red!

Pure time is always fleeting, green Corps an early hacker now said, never come back.

The Chinese exclusion incident occurred in Indonesia in May 1998. Chinese hackers, who are toddlers, have decided to show their solidarity and launch an attack on Indonesia's website. This gave them their first public appearances and Youboy with patriotic charity. Organizers of the Green Corps famous, young hackers were first tasted as a national hero of pride. Gong, the organizer of the year, now admits that it is a national sentiment, and that it does not rule out the youth's passion for fame.

Today, Shei Chaxia even said that it had been instigated--that agitation was clearly not commendatory. He kept a low profile, refused to interview, and declined to discuss any personal situation. The original rules of the river, are still adhered to, "We leave the real name, only to show our attitude, not to steal information, do not maliciously damage the other equipment." "Gong said. The simple patriotic sentiment has created the Chinese hacker initial unity and the strong spirit, even appeared "The Chinese Hacker Emergency Conference Center", is responsible for the foreign website attack during the coordination work.

After the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy, the Chinese hackers again on a large scale to unite, have launched the attack on the U.S. website. The day after the Chinese embassy was bombed, the first Chinese red Guest website, "The Chinese Red Guest's Motherland Unity in 2001, the Sino-US hacker war, 80,000 Chinese hackers acted together, so that Chinese red flag in the U.S. White House website flying two hours." They call themselves "the Patriotic War".

China's Red-Guest alliance, the Chinese Hawks Alliance, and the three hacker organizations of the Chinese Hacker Alliance have become the main force of the Sino-US hacking war. For a time, the Red Lion, Hawks Wan become Chinese hacker hero.

The former advocates the spirit of Red Guest, gave himself a unique name-"Red guest"? (Honker), hoping to prove the legality of his attack by the justice of the political stance.

The speculation of true motives is no longer important, objectively speaking, the dependency of national sentiments and the soaring patriotic banner have contributed to the rapid growth of Chinese hackers. In the streets of the 2000, hacker technology is as popular as today's blog. "Serving the Motherland" has become the most habitual mantra of young net.

April 2002, China Internet Association announced the suppression of organized attacks. The red Union to this point, only reduced to less people's web page. And the surging of the network security industry, so that the former hackers race to transform, there is no other.

"In the fundamental sense, the means of cyber hackers and college students to the U.S. Embassy stone and ink bottles are no different, but a means of catharsis." Mindahong, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has sharply evaluated. "The Times changed, the environment changed, the network has changed," The Green Corps members of the year feeling red passion fleeting reason, "how can hackers do not change?" A large-scale attack on the name of nationalism is harder to carry out. On the last day of 2004, Lion, the head of China's Red-guest alliance, announced his closure, and Professor Mindahong wrote a farewell to the Chinese hackers ' passionate age.

Business Dream

Pure technical ideals or patriotic passion, the results show that in the dotcom bubble, the temptation to overlap in the 2000, Chinese hackers become vulnerable. Originally Hidden rivers and lakes, for the needs of business, but also inevitably sailed to glitz and show off.

"Back to reality, hackers are also ordinary people who need food, life and personal development." "Members of the early Green Corps Zhou Yi did not advocate moral evaluation.

And the organizers of the Eighth Legion, Chen Sanbao, have so far insisted that "the legitimate use of hacker technology to convert it into legitimate business value, I believe that this may be the number of hackers to reflect their value of the highest level." ”

A series of attacks that began in the 1998 have objectively reminded people of the network security, and the network security industry is in the ascendant.

1999, China was also the first of the most powerful hacker organization Green Corps into transformation, born into the Green Alliance, the July set up the Shanghai NSFocus Computer Network Security Technology Co.

Then, China's first generation of hackers threw away their swords, raised their shields and marched in droves to the cyber-security arena.

"At the time, China's top hacker, 90%, became a cyber-security expert. "Gong said.

These hackers were so easy to patriotic, national flag fame, but do not want to, in the mire of business, mud full of deep. The dream of business will end in a year. 2000, the Shanghai Green Union was dissolved.

Gong now seems to have some regrets, the green Corps clouds scattered, not only personal gains and losses, more important, he thought, opened the capital box, and finally eroded the pure hacker idea. And he was seen as the man who opened Pandora's box. Zhou Yi seems to have foreseen it earlier, saying he has never made a step toward cyber-security. The failure of the Green Union, is now interpreted by the parties, the principle of the concept of the hacker freedom and capital conflict, which may include "network security companies are eager to profit, known as defense, but it is inevitable to do some attacks, playing a legal edge, in order to promote business."

Those who cannot be tolerated choose to flee, while those who are captured by capital may be the majority.

Others, such as WAN, are looking for other possibilities, and in 2002 he responded to the Guangdong governor through the media and Chinese hackers were willing to serve the government. How solemnly he called the hacker's sense of responsibility, even the most popular "Chinese" prefix. Regrettably, there is no substantive response. "The era of the big League of Chinese hackers is over, and now it's disunity." "Zhou Yi said.

It's too hard to turn back

The speed of Internet popularization is faster than expected, and hackers may multiply faster than the speed of internet popularization. When hacking tools can bring commercial benefits so directly as to create economic data for a product, the veil of meritocracy will no longer exist. 2000 years later, China's so-called hacker team expands rapidly, many handy hacker tools and software make the threshold of hackers getting lower, the network is everywhere is hacker crash training course, when 300 yuan can break a mailbox, change back a set of fool Hacker tool, chaos already unavoidable.

Even the hacker of that year was afraid to avoid the appellation, "too complex" is closely followed by the sigh. Gong back to defend the purity of the hacker. Wan said that hackers should be a moral, conscientious technical master, he and the hacker is the difference is in access to someone else's computer, one is a well-meaning reminder or quietly leave, and the other is wantonly destroyed. "It's like a man learns Kung Fu, and you can't say he's a bad person before you hit him." If he's used to Chubaoanliang, he's a man, and if he's used to Dagujieshe, he's a thief. ”

There are people who occasionally speak of red guest, a once to national, patriotic body of the vocabulary, it is said that lion again opened the Red Guest Alliance, but quietly on the website, he himself has not landed one months. The friend who knew him said that he lived very well. Another example is the "Big Red" alliance, which is really just a code name, he worries about his more than 10-person security company, or even a hacker with the national interest, he instinctively asked, "not sensitive?"

More on the nationalist rendering, has quietly become a hacker's website to take money ads on a classic line, "one-month package will attack the Japanese computer."

Chen Sanbao says that only a handful of them are still sticking to the hacker's nature, silently focusing on technical research, and the other part of the uproar that is focused on business interests. He was also so well known. "They are not for the purpose of technology, but for the purpose of money, they distort the hacker, but also for the community to bury a lot of unsafe hidden dangers." "Wan said, watching a lot of patriotic fraud in the guise of hackers, his final conclusion is very sad," and the entertainment circle of stars, gossip is its trailer, attention, pleasure and wealth is its ultimate destination. ”

Gong thinks, the hacker dumbing, the Green Regiment even can not blame, because of their lost their virginity, only then caused the hacker spirit was cut. He sought to establish a large foundation, not related to the operation of the network, to return to the "Green and peaceful Internet World", "Goodwell, should not belong to only one person."

He himself did not know, who will give up fame and fortune, willing to return, and occasionally feel naïve, but "have to try it." (Zebian Admin01)