Villain’s Programming - Chapter 227



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Episode 227: Doubt

[00:56:32]

Snowden rubbed his face with his hand as he looked at the remaining time on the monitor.

“Nonsense. How can it be less than 4 minutes? “Have you taken over the Israeli server?”

Jackson, a huge man next to Snowden, nodded repeatedly and said.

“It’s not like taking control. I made it into a zombie PC. “Now all Israel can do is unplug.”

NSA agents couldn’t believe it even though they were seeing it right in front of their eyes.

“But now Dojun is modifying the Israeli web page server source? “How on earth are you going to change it?”

I heard various things being said behind me, but Dojun didn’t pay any attention. What was important now was something else.

‘What do you say to the Israelis?’

I was modifying the server source to show them something, and I was worried about what I should show them.

‘Shall we raise the American flag? Or should I post a picture of the NSA building?’

Dojun, who was worried, was struck by the fact that the opponent was ‘Israel’.

‘If it’s Israel… After all, it’s the Bible, right?’

Dojun recalled a Bible verse he knew.

‘There isn’t any?’

Dojun, who is not religious, couldn’t think of anything even when he racked his brains.

‘Ha, but that doesn’t mean I can’t search and find it right now. ‘Really, is there anything plausible?’

At that moment, Dojun remembered the ‘Sangnoksu’ restaurant he went to not long ago. To be precise, he recalled the words hanging on the wall of the restaurant.

‘Was it faith, hope, love? This is a phrase from the Bible, right? The man at the restaurant went to church, so I’m sure it’s from the Bible.’

Dojun recalled the phrase.

‘But I don’t think it was just faith, hope, or love… ‘What was it?’

If it had been before, I wouldn’t have remembered it, but fortunately I had been to that restaurant not long ago, so after thinking about it a little, I immediately remembered everything.

[Therefore these three things will always remain: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.]

‘Yes, love is the best. Let’s stop doing things like this anymore and let’s all love together.’

After modifying the source code, Dojun controlled the system and reloaded the web page.

[00:55:01]

With exactly 55 minutes left, a phrase written by Dojun appeared on an Israeli web page.

* * *

The people of Israel’s Unit 8200 all gaped when they saw the phrase that appeared on the monitor.

[Therefore these three things will always remain: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.]

This phrase comes from 1 Corinthians 13:13 and is one of the most famous Bible phrases known throughout the world.

Normally, they were the people of Unit 8200 who would have simply taken this to mean that everyone should love each other. But that wasn’t the case now.

Company Commander Sheran said.

“This… “What does it mean?”

Lieutenant Munas answered with difficulty.

“Aren’t you saying that as allies we have no faith, hope, or love?”

Company Commander Sheran placed the back of his hand on his forehead.

“As expected, I wasn’t the only one who saw it that way. “Is this a big deal?”

The reason Israel was able to endure in the middle of enemy territory in the Middle East was because of the power of the United States.

“Surely, the relationship of trust with the United States will not be broken?”

Munas said in response to Sheran’s words.

“I hope not. But the more I look at this phrase, the creepier it becomes. “I think this should be interpreted the other way.”

“the opposite?”

“yes. “It seems to mean that since faith, or trust between allies, has been broken, we should not hope for hope or even Israel’s hope.”

Company Commander Sheran’s eyes wavered.

“hope? no way… “Are you saying you know about our plan to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities with missiles?”

“I think so.”

“ha. driving me crazy.”

Until now, Israel and the United States have had a honeymoon relationship. Even if Israel carried out kidnapping and sabotage, it was only able to do so because the United States turned a blind eye.

Munas said.

“Finally, love, this is the biggest problem. When love breaks… … .”

“It’s over. “Aren’t you talking about divorce?”

Dojun was just writing a phrase he saw at a restaurant, but the phrase was shaking Israel.

“Munas, is America testing us?”

“I can’t help but think so. Our web page was up and running in 5 minutes. “The United States already had a perfect understanding of us.”

As Sheran sat down on the chair, Lieutenant Munas approached.

“Company Commander, what do you plan to do?”

“What should I do? “I need to meet the director and wish him well.”

Sheran trembled as he remembered the Mossad director.

“Will the director stay still?”

“You probably aren’t there. I need some excuse. Munas! “Is this the person you were talking about, the incredibly talented person who hacked a web page in 5 minutes?”

Lieutenant Munas scratched the back of his neck.

“well. I’m not sure because it was a few years ago. “The person’s unique signature was not visible in this hack.”

“Then you’re saying it’s someone else?”

“I don’t know that either. “I can’t believe there’s someone else with this kind of talent besides him.”

“ha. Then there is nothing I can do. “I really need to grab the director’s pants and pray.”

“Cheer up, company commander. By the way, it’s the NSA after all. “I thought he caught up.”

All members of Unit 8200 nodded at Munas’ words.

“Mossad has grown so much, but does that mean it’s not enough for the NSA yet?”

Lieutenant Munas said with his eyes shining at Sheran’s words.

“Company Commander, I thought of a good excuse to tell the director.”

“What?”

“I see this as an opportunity to grow. “By forming a project team this time, we are going to extract all of the NSA’s know-how.”

Sheran straightened up from his half-lying position.

“That’s right, this is actually an opportunity. Maybe I can learn the NSA’s latest hacking techniques.”

The two people looked at each other, their eyes shining.

Sheran jumped up from the chair.

“Are you going to suggest forming a project team?”

“okay. I should suggest that we create a team with three people from our side and three from the United States. “Of course, after I empty it all.”

“Cheer up.”

* * *

Director Keith returned to the office with a bright smile.

“We received a call from Israel saying they would accept our offer. “They asked us to form a team of three of us and three of Israel.”

Snowden asked.

“What about the attack? “They have to target our website, right?”

“I decided not to do that either.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. This was because it would be a shame if a website was immediately breached after being created.

It was then. Snowden heard a ‘chop’ sound from behind. When she turned her head, Jun had a sad expression on his face.

“Mr. Dojun, are you… “Do you regret it?”

“Honestly, I had some expectations.”

Snowden said, tilting his head.

“What expectations?”

“I was curious about how Israel would attack. “I heard through rumor that it was very diverse, so I thought I would be able to see it this time.”

Director Keith responded to Dojun’s words.

“It’s diverse, but you probably haven’t had a chance to see it. If we had created a web page, it might have collapsed on the first attack. “I’m glad I stopped at this point.”

It was then. Snowden, who was looking at Dojun who continued to look regretful, blinked her eyes and said.

“uh? Director. “Maybe not?”

“What does that mean? We prioritize attack, not defense… … .”

“No, Mr. Dojun. We have Dojun, right? Don’t you all know what I’m talking about? The company owned by Dojun. “There is a GUARD CAT.”

“GUARD… CAT?”

“yes! “If the GUARD CAT defends it, will Israel be able to easily penetrate it?”

The agents blinked as they remembered GUARD CAT. I thought it would not be easily breached if there was a GUARD CAT.

“But that means using an external program that wasn’t created by the NSA… … .”

Snowden said with a frustrated expression on Director Keith’s words.

“If you think about it that way, the same goes for log4j. “It’s also an external program, right?”

“that… yes.”

“Maybe if we had actually confronted him, I might have been able to give him a hard hit.”

Director Keith quickly changed his mind, fearing that Snowden might ask for a rematch.

Director Keith asked Do-jun.

“Anyway, what the hell happened? “What did you do with log4j?”

Dojun grinned.

“I accidentally discovered a bug in log4j before I came here.”

Snowden asked urgently.

“A bug? “Did Dojun discover it?”

Dojun shook his head. I knew the truth from articles in my past life, but I couldn’t say it.

“It wasn’t me, it was found by GUARD CAT. I don’t know if everyone knows, but one of the tasks that GUARD CAT performs is discovering security vulnerabilities in companies commissioned by white hackers. “I discovered it by chance while working.”

Snowden looked shocked.

“Oh my god, if that’s true, it’s a big problem for websites all over the world. Almost everyone uses log4j, right?”

Even in my past life, this became a big problem.

This was because it was possible to hack all systems of Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.

“Yes. “It’s a big deal.”

“Then, shouldn’t we report this quickly? I’m sure there are hackers who know this. “They may be silently exploiting it.”

It was like that in my past life too.

‘Surely this man, Snowden, is just. This is why, after a few years, I give up everything and expose it.’

Of course, the price of exposure was miserable. There was no place that would accept Snowden, and he had no choice but to go into exile in Russia.

‘Is there no way to protect Snowden in this life?’

Dojun said while looking at Snowden.

“that… … .”

But that was then. Director Keith interjected:

“Hmm, let’s talk about that later. Isn’t that what’s important now? Thanks to Dojun, we won the match against Israel, so let’s celebrate. And shouldn’t we select three people? Snowden, please take charge of this matter.”

Snowden said with an uneasy look on his face.

“All right. “I will select a list and submit it.”

* * *

At 1 a.m., Snowden wrote down the names of three people in a document.

[Snowden, Jackson and Dojun.]

I wanted to include another colleague’s name instead of Dojun, but Dojun’s performance today was too great to leave it out.

‘I can’t help it. We’ll be together until this project is finished.’

Snowden sent the list by email to Director Keith and leaned heavily into his chair.

‘Now when the joint project begins, it will be connected to Israel’s system.’

That meant that from now on, Snowden could hack Israeli systems if he wanted to.

Snowden thought of ‘Eric’ who had contacted him not long ago.

‘Is what he said true? Really, have the United States and Israel already completed the hacking program?’

Snowden thought it made no sense. He had already completed the hacking program, so it made no sense to go through these steps.

‘no way… Is there a hidden reason? Like PRISM.’

Snowden recalled the PRISM project, which the NSA is secretly working on.

Snowden originally left the NSA, but returned to the NSA last year. The reason was the PRISM project.

‘At first, I thought it was a random information collection project. The name of the program is UTT (Unified Targeting Tool), right?

But the more I learned, the more I realized that wasn’t the case.

‘The UTT program was a tool that collected all information with an accurate target.’

Snowden, who returned to work as an NSA system administrator, has greater access to classified data than before. With that authority, Snowden checked many materials.

‘The NSA is looking at all of Americans’ data. Email, chat list, social media activity information, etc. But all of this is legal.’

Originally, it was a program created to catch terrorists after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Naturally, the UTT system, which was supposed to be used only to check information not domestically but also externally, especially hostile countries, was being applied to the country as well.

‘We use it for our own people, but wouldn’t we use it for our allies?’

When Snowden thought of that, he suddenly stood up.

‘Could it be that they are using this opportunity to eavesdrop on Israel?’

Then it all made sense.

‘I can’t do this. ‘I’ll have to check.’

Snowden thought of an area that was off-limits even to him.

Snowden left the office and moved to the server room. Inside the server room, a security officer looked at Snowden and said,

“Snowden, haven’t you gotten off work yet?”

“ha. If you don’t give them work, they either leave work or not. “Is Tommy on duty today?”

“yes. It wasn’t originally supposed to be, but Joseph asked me to stand in his place for one day because he said they were dating. But as I get older, being on duty becomes difficult.”

“Just do it roughly. Take a nap on the sofa. “I will be here.”

“lol. Thank you.”

With those words, Tommy went to the sofa, looked at his phone, and soon began snoring.

After confirming that Tommy was completely asleep, Snowden took out a USB stick from his pocket and plugged it into the server computer.

Snowden’s own hacking program was executed, and soon a large amount of data appeared.

Snowden accessed materials that had previously been off-limits. It was all top secret material.

‘crazy! Did you bug France? England too? No, we are allies!’

It wasn’t just England and France. The United States was hacking numerous countries.

‘But there is no Israel?’

Snowden was convinced.

‘It’s clear, the real purpose of this project is to wiretap Israel under the pretext of Iran’s nuclear facilities.’

I was sure, but there was no evidence. And I still wanted to trust America more.

Snowden thought of ‘Eric’ at that time.

‘Eric… He said he had the sauce already made in America.’

While Snowden was working on the project, it occurred to him that the source would be applied to the project in some form.

‘Who will apply it? director? Jackson?’

For a moment, Snowden thought of another person.

‘The person brought in by the Minister of National Defense and the CIA, Do Jun Hwang!’

The more I thought about it, the more I doubted it. However, suspicion was just suspicion and solid evidence was needed.

‘I can’t do this. I’ll have to get Eric’s sauce and compare it with the sauce Dojun makes.’

The problem was that there was a price to obtain the source.

‘Did you ask me to check the contract between the hacker organizations in Iran’s intelligence service?’

Snowden was hesitant about hacking another organization, but soon decided to do it.

‘There’s no way the contract with the hacker organization was normal, right? ‘I’m sure I signed up for something that would be detrimental to the world.’

Snowden woke Tommy up from his sleep and left the office, saying he had to get off work now.

After arriving home, Snowden picked up the cannon phone at home and called ‘Eric’.

* * *

The next day, Dojun went to work at NSA with a light heart.

Fortunately, perhaps because of what happened yesterday, everyone welcomed Dojun.

Dojun sat down in the office and checked the NSA encrypted data. As the morning passed and became afternoon, Director Keith came to the office and spoke.

“Snowden, Jackson and Dojun go to the B13 conference room. “We will have our first meeting with the Israeli project members.”

The meeting started with introducing ourselves. Of course, everyone used nicknames and pseudonyms.

The meeting started in a good mood, and when the main topic began, Dojun spoke.

“I hope to create a new virus that combines everything from worm viruses, Trojan horses, and self-propagating viruses.”

It was then. A message appeared in front of Dojun.

Dojun, surprised, turned his head. There was an unexpected person there, radiating malice.