Villain’s Programming - Chapter 228



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Episode 228: I have to go back to my previous life

Snowden called Eric. It was past 2 a.m., but fortunately Eric answered the phone right away.

“Eric, accept your offer. But not just that. Show me at least part of the source first. “I will look at it and make a final decision.”

– No problem. I’ll send it to you right away.

In less than 10 minutes, an email arrived from Eric.

Snowden immediately opened the email. The email contained a compressed source file.

‘really? The US and Israel have already perfected the virus? ‘It’s hard to believe.’

Snowden did not give up his last patriotism for the United States.

‘I’ll know when I see it. If it’s really made by the NSA, it can’t escape my eyes.’

When I unzipped and opened the source file, a lot of code unfolded before my eyes. Snowden frantically analyzed the source material.

“what’s this? “You combined all the types of viruses that have existed so far into one, right?”

I didn’t understand why they combined it like this, but it was clear that it was a very powerful virus.

“America really made this? “If this gets released on the Internet, there will be countless victims.”

When I thought about the ‘damage’, I suddenly remembered ‘log4j’ that I saw during the day.

Considering only the damage, ‘log4j’ was more serious than this virus code. Because it was already widespread.

‘What happened to that? Shouldn’t we take action quickly for that too? Should I tell the production company as soon as possible to avoid further damage? Wait a minute, wasn’t it Director Keith who cut off the conversation when this topic came up?’

Director Keith was someone I always trusted and followed. But as things turned out like this, everything became suspicious.

“no. “The director can’t do that.”

Snowden shook his head and looked at the code again.

‘But the more I look at this code, the more familiar it seems? ‘Why?’

In some ways, it was like a code written by Jackson, and in other ways, it was like a code written by himself. But he also had some very unfamiliar code.

‘The coding convention is similar to what we use, but different.’

Just by looking at the code, it was difficult to tell whether the source code was created by the NSA.

Snowden tilted his head and looked at the code, and suddenly found a comment.

‘Siemen? ‘This is code targeting Siemens products, right?’

Snowden was a top operative who worked for the CIA and the NSA. Of course, just by looking at the flow of the code, he could guess what purpose the code was written for. But I wasn’t sure.

‘If you look at the rest of the sources, you’ll be more confident.’

Snowden was madly curious about the rest of the sources. But if he wanted to see the source, he had to accept Eric’s terms.

‘Yeah, this isn’t a bad thing.’

Snowden sent an email to Eric confirming his final participation.

“And what time is it?”

I sent the email and looked at the wall clock. It was 8 am.

“Damn it! “You’re late!”

Considering it was rush hour, I had to run out right away. Snowden only washed his face, wore the same clothes he wore yesterday, and drove to the NSA.

As I parked and entered the entrance of the NSA building, I met Tommy, who was just getting off work.

Snowden suddenly remembered the hacking he had done last night.

“Tommy! Are you leaving work?”

“uh. I’m a little late due to handover. By the way, Snowden, couldn’t you sleep? “You look worse than me?”

“Well, it’s always like that.”

“ha. Think about your body. And then I was hooked.”

“okay. Be careful. “By the way, did anything happen last night?”

Tommy said with a shrug.

“Nothing. Even if I sleep, I make sure to check. “I checked all system access in the morning, and there were no problems.”

“Tommy, is that why I asked you? You often fall off while sleeping on the sofa, right? “I asked if it had fallen again this time.”

“haha. It didn’t fall this time! “After all, Snowden is the only one who worries me.”

Snowden broke up with Tommy and went inside. Snowden was greeted by numerous of his colleagues, all of whom were concerned about Snowden’s appearance.

‘I didn’t live in vain.’

Snowden smiled and went to his office. Everyone in the office had already gone to work. Dojun was also at work.

Snowden spent the morning dozing like a wilted chicken. It was in the afternoon when something happened. Director Keith came into his office and said:

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

I came to my senses. They were naturally nervous when they saw the people of Israel’s Unit 8200, who had humiliated them.

Besides, another thought occurred to me.

‘Perhaps we can find out America’s intentions regarding this project here.’

Snowden recalled the source he had seen in the morning.

‘Trojan horses, worms, and even viruses. ‘Whoever speaks of this concept is a culprit.’

Snowden entered the conference room with his eyes shining.

* * *

The meeting was a voice chat. There was a voice chat speaker in the middle of the table, and attendees were sitting around it.

Dojun was nervous at his first NSA meeting. But that was useless.

This is because during the self-introduction session, a story that everyone would enjoy was told.

“I am Peter Parker.”

Lt. Israel Munas said during Dojun’s introduction.

– Peter Parker? Were you Spider-Man?

Dojun tried to say his real name like everyone else, but Director Keith stopped him. I was worried that the identity of Dojun, a civilian, might be revealed to Iran.

“Because I’m a passionate fan.”

– I’m a fan of Iron Man, so can I play Tony Stark?

Everyone was able to have fun talking about the protagonist of a hero movie.

“haha. In a way, isn’t what we do also the work of heroes? So let’s get to the point. “Does Israel have any ideas about this hacking operation?”

In response to Director Keith’s words, Israel made several suggestions. Dojun heard that and tilted his head.

‘huh? ‘It’s all normal, right?’

Dojun knew that the virus he had heard about in his past life would come up during the meeting with Israel. But he was only talking about ordinary hacking methods.

‘Why is this happening?’

Dojun was worried.

‘Has history changed again because of me?’

Dojun’s expression became serious. If you think about it, the fact that you are here is proof that history has changed.

‘Is it possible that the person who should attend this event has changed because of me? ‘What if the hacking doesn’t succeed?’

That shouldn’t have happened. This was because I didn’t know what kind of butterfly effect it would manifest later at this point.

‘no! ‘We must make it follow its original history as much as possible.’

Dojun said, recalling as much as he could an article about the hacking of Iranian nuclear facilities that he had read in his past life.

“Well, I don’t think it matters now which hacking method is powerful. The important thing is, what hacking method is most effective in infiltrating Iranian nuclear facilities? Company Commander Sheran, isn’t the network of Iranian nuclear facilities independent?”

All companies that valued security operated separate networks. Many Korean game companies were also using separate networks.

This was to prevent physical contact from external hacking.

– yes. you’re right.

“So, how were you trying to access there?”

For a moment, the surroundings became quiet. It seemed like no one had thought of it.

Dojun was strange.

‘Strange. Anyone would have guessed this much, right? ‘Neither the NSA nor Unit 8200 took any measures to deal with this?’

When Dojun was thinking that, Director Keith said.

“Regarding this, we have established a response plan in cooperation with Israel.”

Dojun thought, ‘That’s right then!’

Director Keith continued.

“But it’s confidential, so it’s hard to talk about it here.”

“If you don’t know that, you can’t decide exactly what hacking technique to use.”

Director Keith responded to Dojun’s words.

“That’s why we prepared this place. I can’t tell you everything, but we have obtained a list of nuclear facility workers. “The Israeli Mossad obtained it and informed us.”

At that moment, the eyes of everyone here lit up.

Snowden asked.

“Are you planning on recruiting them?”

“no. It’s impossible to access. “Everything is under control, whether it’s phones or people.”

“So how do you approach it?”

“That’s what you have to do.”

Dojun responded to Director Keith’s words.

“You mean hacking the computers they use?”

“yes. But the next step is difficult. Hacking is possible, but the problem is how to connect the hacking to the nuclear facility computers.”

Everyone was silent. Infiltrating an independent network was impossible no matter how great a genius hacker was.

‘no. There must have been a way.’

Dojun recalled his past life. It’s an old article, so I don’t remember everything clearly. However, I remembered one word clearly.

“Those people… “Why not use USB?”

“USB?”

“yes. Doesn’t the NSA also use USB? “Don’t you store data externally and copy it to your company computer?”

Director Keith looked serious. Originally, this wasn’t supposed to work. But human work always had loopholes.

“Surely, if you put your mind to it, it won’t be difficult to sneak in with a USB. Especially when it comes to Iran.”

There was a response from the Israeli side who heard the conversation between Director Keys and Do-jun.

– Wow, it’s a USB… Is there a way to do that?

Dojun responded to Lieutenant Munas’ words.

“To be successful, you would have to hack every worker’s computer and wait until they all use USB. It’s not easy. “You may fail.”

– Leave that to us. That’s normal to that extent. By the way, Peter Parker, I thought you gave it that name for fun, but is it really Spider-Man? Iranian workers will never be able to escape the web you created.

Dojun responded to Lieutenant Munas’ words.

“Then there is only one thing for us to do now. You have to hack into that computer and plant a virus on it. A virus that will never be discovered.”

All the agents’ eyes lit up when they finally got what they had to do.

– A normal virus probably won’t work.

“yes. You need to be able to copy yourself from your computer to a USB, and then move from the USB back to the nuclear facility’s computer. “At nuclear facility computers, you have to know how to do things that are completely different from what you were doing before.”

– Just listening to it makes me dizzy. Is there such a virus?

“All you have to do is create a new virus that combines everything from worm viruses, Trojan horses, and self-propagating viruses.”

Everyone in the United States and Israel’s eyes lit up at Dojun’s words.

But only one person was different. He was looking at Dojun with an astonished expression.

At the same time, a message appeared in front of Dojun.

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

‘Snowden… Is this it? ‘Why does Snowden have evil intentions towards me?’

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason. However, I did not feel that the message in front of me was wrong.

‘what? ‘What did I do that you have evil intentions towards me?’

Dojun thought about what happened with Snowden yesterday, but nothing special happened.

Just yesterday, Snowden only thanked Do-jun and praised him for his great skills.

‘Are you really jealous? no. If you look at Snowden’s appearance in articles and movies in his past life, he was a very just person.’

Unable to understand, Dojun looked at Snowden again. Snowden was still looking at himself.

Dojun wanted to turn his head again, but he held back.

‘Nothing can happen like this. In this case, it is a straight method.’

Dojun actually smiled brightly and said.

“What do you think of me, Snowden?”

Snowden was taken aback for a moment before answering.

“good… Yes. “That sounds like a good idea, Peter Parker.”

“Do you have any other suggestions?”

“Not right now. “If anything comes to mind, I’ll tell you.”

After that, it was all smooth sailing. The United States and Israel each divided up their areas of expertise.

The source created and managed a file server and allowed everyone to access it.

“Okay, see you next time.”

The long meeting ended with Director Keith’s words. Everyone woke up. Dojun also stood up and Snowden also stood up.

Dojun looked at Snowden’s back as he went ahead.

Above his head was a red circle, darker than before.

* * *

“OMG! “I finally finished it.”

Dojun uploaded the code he wrote to the server and stretched himself.

I looked around and saw that everyone was frantically looking at the monitor. It was the same with Snowden.

‘It’s already been a week.’

Dojun worked on the project for a week. But even after a week, Snowden’s malice did not disappear.

During working hours, Snowden did not show any ill will toward Do-jun. But he didn’t even come close to Dojun.

‘It can’t go on like this.’

The project was going well, but Do-Jun felt like Snowden was a bomb.

‘It’s unlikely, but if Snowden writes the code in a strange way, this project will definitely fail.’

Dojun tilted his head and looked at the ceiling.

‘I need to know why Snowden had evil intentions toward me.’

But there was no suitable way.

‘I can’t ask you why you have evil intentions towards me. Is there anything Snowden might be interested in?’

Dojun, who was worried, suddenly got up from his seat.

‘that’s right. ‘There it was!’

Dojun, who remembered the incident from his previous life, waited until work time.

After a while, Snowden got up to leave work. Dojun followed him, pretending to leave work himself.

As Snowden passed through the large parking lot and was about to get into his car, Dojun grabbed his shoulder and said,