"Okay, let's go see Marcus."
William Black and Director Oliver went to the office next door to Marcus Reed, a member of the jury.
"Mr. Reed, we've invited a
"Attacked a bank ATM?" Marcus immediately became interested. He looked at it carefully and then said, "This
"Little Boy," Director Oliver said.
"Who is Little Boy?" Marcus asked, puzzled.
"Mr. Reed, you haven't heard of Little Boy?" Director Oliver asked with some surprise.
Marcus shook his head.
As the technical advisor of the Crimson Hacker Base, he is very familiar with the situation of the domestic
"Mr. Reed, he's a TrendTok streamer. You should know about yesterday's news, right? Little Boy, in conjunction with the Oasis Embassy, dismantled a fraud ring..."
Marcus still looked bewildered; he rarely paid attention to the news.
"You said he's a TrendTok streamer, what's his TrendTok ID?" Marcus asked, taking out his phone.
"You can just search for Little Boy."
Marcus opened TrendTok and searched for "Little Boy".
Is this it?
"Yes, this is it." Director Oliver glanced at Mr. Reed's phone and nodded.
Marcus clicked into "Little Boy's" TrendTok account, which has 3 million followers but has not posted a single video.
Elliot has indeed not posted any content on TrendTok. The videos that netizens see about him are all "slices" made by other streamers.
To suggest attacking an ATM machine is something only a typical
Who exactly is this expert in the industry?
Needless to say, 'Little Boy' is definitely a pseudonym.
In the era of short videos, it's nothing new for
He guessed that this "Little Boy" was probably in the same situation, and perhaps it was a friend he knew.
With that thought in mind, Marcus clicked "follow".
"Mr. Reed, is this performance plan feasible?" William Black asked.
"It's feasible, absolutely feasible." Marcus nodded.
"Then it's decided," William Black said happily.
If the experts say it's feasible, then there's no problem.
Director Oliver returned to his office and sent a message to Elliot: "Little Boy, the expert judging panel has approved your proposal. What preparations do you need our production team to make?"
"I need on-site operators, and I also need the cooperation of the bank," Elliot replied.
"Okay, we'll leave all of that to our production team," Director Oliver said.
Next, the two discussed some details of the show.
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At 10 p.m. that night, Elliot had just finished a live broadcast and received the program script from Director Oliver.
The show will be recorded at 6 PM the day after tomorrow. All the guests participating in the challenge need to arrive at the TV station's program team in advance to prepare. Of course, Elliot doesn't need to be there in person; he will participate remotely.
The script details the program's process. The first challenge is to crack the phone lock screen password. The production team prepared the latest models from more than a dozen mainstream mobile phone brands.
Cracking a phone's lock screen password was too easy for Elliot.
The simplest method is to directly hack into the phone and disable the lock screen function or remove the password from within the phone.
However, Elliot came up with a better idea that would definitely make the show more entertaining.
Elliot once read a post that described how to crack a phone's lock screen password using an IC card.
Elliot tried hard to recall the specific content of the post, but after a long time, he couldn't remember it anymore.
He needed to find that post.
Elliot remembered that the post was saved to the D drive... Uh, ten minutes have passed, and he still can't find it.
There are too many files on the D drive.
Having too much data can also be a hassle.
He kept searching, and after a few more minutes, he finally found it.
Elliot clicked on the post and read it carefully.
The post explains the principle behind unlocking a phone screen using an IC card, primarily involving the SIM card's PUK code and security vulnerabilities in the phone's operating system. When the SIM card is locked, the user can use the PUK code to unlock it. However, in certain situations, if the phone's operating system has security vulnerabilities, this mechanism can be exploited to unlock the phone screen.
After reading it, Elliot roughly understood the principle.
The operation is very simple. Just use an IC card, stick it to the back of the phone, and you can unlock the phone's lock screen password in a few seconds.
The next step is testing and verification.
IC cards or community access cards are acceptable.
Elliot found the access card in the drawer and then tested it with his mobile phone.
He first locked his phone screen, then stuck his access card to the back of the phone. A few seconds later, he pressed his finger against the phone screen and then released it.
The first attempt failed.
Continue with the second test.
Wow~~
It was a success!
The phone screen was successfully unlocked.
This method really works.
Elliot is using a Nova phone; he's unsure if this method will work on other phones and needs to test them all.
He checked the time; it was already 10:30 PM.
Let's test again tomorrow morning.
Elliot got up to make himself a cup of milk, then returned to his computer to continue studying the program script.
The program list included more than a dozen mobile phone brands, and Elliot's eyes fell on the StarTech Note phone.
He suddenly realized that there was a major vulnerability in the
"How about we demonstrate this vulnerability live on the show?"
Imagine if a StarTech phone suddenly caught fire or even exploded on set – that would be a truly spectacular scene.
However, this will also have a significant negative impact on StarTech's brand image.
"StarTech, who cares!" Elliot muttered.
He had never been a fan of the brand's corporate practices to begin with, so he decided to make an example out of their phones.
"System, redeem the StarTech Note phone battery vulnerability."
[Host redeemed 'StarTech Note phone battery vulnerability', deducting 1 million points, leaving 56 million points.]
Elliot spent 1 million points to redeem a StarTech mobile phone battery vulnerability toolkit.
He's going to make a big splash with the show the day after tomorrow.
Next, Elliot optimized the code for attacking ATM machines.
This is the code he wrote last year. Looking at it now, there are some parts that could be improved.
Elliot also had some new ideas that could make the attack code more efficient and more covert.
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(End of this chapter)
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