"Alice, welcome you."

When the car stopped at the entrance of the Pentagon, then-F-Chief William Webster and NSA Director Dominic Fleirre welcomed Alice at the door.

The breeze came out, and Alice put on her long hair: "Gentlemen, what's going on when she's so anxious to come to me? The phone just said to come as soon as possible."

Today, Alice was wearing a decent and lively outfit, a white lace-edged shirt and a red short skirt, plus a pair of low-heeled high-heeled shoes, and a Louis Vuitton handbag, which was as formal as possible.

"A big thing, Alice, let's talk about it later."

The speaker was Director NSA Dominic. He patted Alice's back and led her into the Pentagon. The three of them walked quickly in the corridor. During the process, staff in a hurry could be seen everywhere. Seeing a high school girl actually walking parallel to these two figures, many people couldn't help but stop for a moment.

“This is the basic situation.”

While walking, Dominic explained: "You know that computer networks were first used for military use in the Pentagon. They were established in the 1960s. It was in recent years that we have lifted the military-specific restrictions on the Internet and opened them to civilian use.

"uh-huh."

"In the past few months, the incident of ibm invading the Nasdaq Exchange was a cybersecurity threat that caused a sensation around the world, and it was a business crime with companies as the main body. So shortly after it happened, we invited you to the Pentagon..."

Alice's pace slowed down because the office ahead was the one leading to the Pentagon Network Management Center.

She looked at Dominic with a strange look: "You... shouldn't be invaded?"

Sure enough, the director nsa and the f-fid on the side showed an embarrassing expression.

"You guessed it, Alice, we..."

"Normal, there must be many experts among the people. Now your network is just maintained by a group of programmers, and it is normal that you will be compromised."

Alice directly interrupted Dominic and said on her own: "For the firewall, our company is currently developing, and it will take a while."

Talking to smart people is easy, but Dominic asked: "How long will it take?"

The three of them started chatting in the corridor, but fortunately there was no one around.

"Well..."

Alice pursed her lips.

In fact, after receiving $30 million in research and development funds from the Ministry of Defense, Alice directly stuffed it into her small vault - although the books were Cisco's corporate funds.

After all, for her who is currently laying the talent tree in the computer field, whether it is software programming or hardware design drawings, it can be completed in just one day. The reason why she did not deliver the goods to the Pentagon immediately was just to give a normal "R&D cycle".

"It will take about a month!"

After thinking about it carefully, Alice gave the exact answer: "It's June now, I'm going to go to the UK to go to high school in September. I can almost give you something before that. If I'm gone, the Cisco team wants to develop that thing...at least it will be December."

Alice is still extremely retained in the total time of six months and the difference between three months. God knows that because of the limited office building area, Cisco has not recruited new employees for a while, and everyone is almost busy. After all, there are not many orders coming during this period.

If she really proposes a firewall project immediately, she may not be able to complete it in June next year before recruiting new employees!

"A month? That's great, I'm really looking forward to the launch of this product soon."

After sighing, Dominic pushed open the office door.

The room is not small in size, and it is full of computer equipment everywhere, and many programmers are busy with dizziness.

"Remus!"

Dominic waved and shouted, "Let me introduce it, Remus, Director of the Network Management Office, Remus, and Alice, the owner of Cisco Systems."

"Oh my God, finally, finally!"

Remus was a short man with a little bald face. When he saw Alice coming, he shook hands with her excitedly: "The master is finally here!"

"Is it the director of the network, management office?"

With accents on the word “management”, Alice said: “I thought it would be the cybersecurity office.”

Remus's face turned a little red. Being sarcastic to such a little girl is not a good experience, even though she is now highly valued by all director-level figures.

William Webster, who hadn't spoken for a long time, spoke: "Remus, let me introduce Alice to the situation. I don't want that when I have picked up the pen to sign the arrest warrant, the little ghost will slip away immediately."

“Yes, yes, no problem.”

Remus acted and wiped the sweat from his forehead, not knowing whether it was true that he was nervous.

This is the basic situation.

Just three days ago, the Pentagon's military website was invaded, and the visitors were very rampant to browse many core confidential documents of the Ministry of Defense. When people from the Network Management Center discovered traces of invasion, they immediately tracked them. However, because the other party's skill was too superb, the programmers in the Lead Management Center disappeared directly after wandering around hundreds of broilers on most of the earth.

"So, you are indeed hacked by civilian hackers."

Alice looked gloating and said with a smile: "And there were cases, right? After all, the computer network has existed for many years, and it is impossible that no one has ever had the idea of ​​invading other networks."

William Webster smiled bitterly and patted Alice on the shoulder: "It's true. Many people who learn computers are young men. Anyone who masters the technology of invading the network, it's not an easy task to stop them."

"But most of them are pranks, and some people even patch the hacked website, right?"

Alice nodded and said, "Real malicious invasions are rare, and this thing has too high technical content, so the current situation is that there are few cases and the legislation is not sound. Unless it is a big deal, it will basically be...huhhhhh."

With a cough, Director Dominic interrupted Alice's chatter: "I can't tell you what he has browsed, but I can tell you who he is."

Dominic said: "His name is Kevin Mitnik. He is now in his early twenties, but he is a habitual offender. As early as three or four years ago, we caught him because of his invasion. But at that time, let alone the ibm incident, cybercrime itself is very rare and there is no law to follow, so we can only simply lock him up in the juvenile discipline office for two days."

"But this kid never ends!"

William Webster interrupted: "Alice, I'm not afraid of you making jokes. This kid invaded North American air protection command system as early as 15 years old! We have been investigating him and arrested him, but he just never ends..."

"Let me tell you what you have lost."

Alice waved her hand to stop Webster's words: "If I were to call me from the West Coast just for an ordinary invasion, I would have to double the labor fee."

Webster looked at Dominic.

Among them, the staff of the Cybersecurity Center had no room for interruption, only Remus was by their side.

After a moment of silence, the National Security Director spoke: "What he saw was the contract orders between the Ministry of National Defense and several arms contractors, which involved absolute state secrets. Although the technicians did not find any traces of the copying of the information, it is not guaranteed that he had erased the operation records. I need you to help us find the boy's IP address. The stationed F-force will act immediately and capture him!"

The action begins soon.

Alice is indeed interested in the identity of the invader.

Kevin Mitnik, she had never heard of this kid's name, but anyone who could become a top hacker in the 1980s was undoubtedly the most talented person. After all, the popularity of online teaching at this time was far less than that of the 21st century. The big guys who were born in such a small base and simple environment were definitely the top terrifying guys after growing up over time!

She waved her little hand: "Give me three best-configured computers, and then, match me with three keyboards and a cup of black tea."

Remus, who was in charge of the execution, was stunned: "I can understand the black tea, three computers, three keyboards?"

Alice glanced at him with a slanted eyes: "I'm very fast, do you have a problem?"

Dominic laughed: "Get ready now, Alice is not an ordinary programmer!"

This is the network management center, and computers are everywhere. It is not difficult to find the three with the highest configurations, but it will take a little effort to place them.

At the same time, Alice complained: "One unit faces me, two units are placed on the left and right, and the keyboard is placed on the table. Well... it's a bit crowded. I said, sir, have you not ordered a bigger table?"

And Remus' helplessness: "Child, this is the government office, we can't buy large desks like the bosses of private enterprises."

Then Alice glanced at her eyes again: "I just complain, what can you explain?"

Then, she hugged her arms with a smile and looked at Remus sly: "It's said that explanation is just a cover-up. Is there anyone in your Pentagon that was wasting extravagantly? There should be procurement records in your computer, so can I see it?"

After saying this, the two big guys who were standing by the side all turned blue.

"Alice, we asked you to catch the hacker, don't be addicted too!"
Chapter completed!