The Goddess Shines on America

"Very good, then sign this document." Seeing little Ada nod, as if by magic, Alice took out a set of documents from behind in an instant!

So, Billy Horn whispered to Bob behind him: "Boss is already ready."

The interaction of the employees was not noticed by Ada, she just took the file seriously and read it. Of course, this is just a very formal confidentiality agreement, exactly the same as any agreement that any company requires its employees to sign, except that it will stipulate specific confidentiality content, which is nothing unusual in itself.

Therefore, after satisfying the initial curiosity, Ada quickly signed her name on this document.

"Ada... Wang?" Looking at the girl's last name, Alice's smiling expression became more and more interesting: "It seems that we are really destined, okay, yes, Ada, do you want to leave it to me later?" Test you personally? If IQ is qualified, maybe I will hire you as my personal secretary."

"If you want to violate the child labor law," Ada's voice was immature, but she spoke unambiguously: "Then Miss Alice, you can tell me now, what interesting experiments are being carried out in your laboratory right?"

"That's right, but don't forget, you have already signed a contract with me." Alice, who had been biting the word "contract" from the very beginning, was like an old witch who abducted children. Under the silent and strange laughter of several other colleagues, he walked out of here holding Ada's hand: "So, if you dare to tell the secret here, MI6 will take you to the FBI for you..."

After all, a child who has not graduated from elementary school is so ignorant. Holding Ada's hand, Alice walked towards the elevator triumphantly.

Then, go straight to the second basement floor.

"There's still an underground," Ada said in a low voice as she stood in the elevator and watched the indicator light decrease rapidly, "I didn't notice it last night."

Alice smiled silently, her eyes swept all the way from floor button five to B2.

With a ding, the door opened.

"As a local, if you come to think of it, you also know this, when the laboratory started." It was still a familiar road, and it was still a familiar way to open the door. Alice was doing what she should do without listening: "But what is more important to understand is that, after all, the laboratory is different from the school, and it does not have to start working after everything is ready. Therefore, despite the fact that the overall building was finally completed in April, it is just coming to May, but the research itself is very important. It started early."

Listening to the completely understandable explanation, Ada's eyes widened immediately after the metal door opened after undergoing fingerprint verification.

The brand-new supercomputer array is located here, and the size of each chassis is no less than that of the largest refrigerator, and the number is as high as dozens or more. This is the computer room, Ada immediately realized it, and what made her feel even more excited was that this huge set of machinery was obviously working, and the sound of humming fans filled the space, and the stuffy heat was the absolute main theme. Even though there must be a ventilation system here.

"Supercomputer..." She looked at one of the chassis in amazement and said, "Miss Alice, what you said is indeed reasonable. Just this big guy, it must not be casually disclosed to outsiders, right?"

"Well...it depends on the angle of consideration. From the perspective of promoting the strength of the research institute to the outside world, and then recruiting more research institutes and funding consortiums, we still need to make its existence public."

Alice was explaining, but Ada, who had just signed the non-disclosure agreement, had a completely different brain operation mode than ordinary people: "Then what if a competitor sneaks in here and steals information from the computer?"

The little girl brought more and more surprises. Alice really felt that she didn't get to know her in vain: "Hey, that's a good idea. How about I test you with a question now?"

Ada looked left and right, the huge computer room was full of chassis, but she didn't see anyone else: "Well, come on!"

"Okay, please listen to the question." Alice walked the girl by the hand: "If this institute undertakes some high-end computing tasks of IBM, or Cisco, or Microsoft, or NASA, or Lockheed, then their Competitors got the news and wanted to come to my research institute to make trouble. It is known that their means of making trouble are to terminate the calculation and steal the calculation data, ask, how should we defend?"

This test question is tailor-made for the two of Ada. Although they have only known each other for more than a day, Alice really wants to cultivate this magical girl of the same race. After all, it's not some ten-year-old kid who can drive a stolen car for several kilometers in the middle of the night to play stealth. Now that she has encountered such a little wonder, of course she will not let it go easily.

"Well, this..." So, standing in the computer room on the second basement floor, Ada began to think seriously. This short-haired girl folded her arms and lowered her head. While thinking, she kept moaning. At first glance, she looked pretty good.

Then, she quickly gave the answer.

"The most violent way to terminate the operation of the computer is to directly shoot the chassis with a machine gun, or use RPG to bombard the basement indiscriminately."

Alice: "..."

"Of course, this is the most unpopular method. So the second violent method is to cut off the power directly. There are two ways to cut off the power. One is to sneak into the second floor of the basement and directly perform a forced shutdown of the computer; the other It is to find out the power supply system of the research institute, and realize remote power-off by pulling the switch.”

Alice: "If it were you, what would you do?"

Ada recalled the process of walking into the computer room, nodded vigorously and said: "I must first know the structural diagram of the research institute, otherwise I will definitely not be able to do it anywhere with the computer. Then, since I know the structural diagram, I know the power supply system. It's very simple, compared to going through the anti-theft door and facing the computer host, it is obviously more feasible to remotely power off the switch****** Lise: "Very good. So the second question, what if you want to steal computing data? "

Ada began to think seriously again, paused for half a minute, and then she said: "I will consider network intrusion first. If this computer is connected to an external network, whether it is the internal LAN of the research institute or the wider outside world, I will directly select the target. Computer, implement network intrusion on this supercomputer to obtain data..."

Alice couldn't help but interjected, "Is the 'Exchange Gate' incident the inspiration for you?"

"Yes," Ada nodded seriously, "Miss Alice, even though I'm young, this incident didn't just happen in my previous life."

Alice chuckled: "Indeed, indeed, you were eight years old at the time, and you can remember this if you want to. What if you don't have an internet connection?"

This is the most difficult problem. No internet connection means that the intruder may really need to use various means to personally come to this computer room on the second basement floor to carry out the closest physical intrusion.

"There is no internet connection..." So, Ada was not stumped immediately, and frowned and thought hard. Alice watched from the side, of course she wouldn't intervene casually, just waiting to see what Ada could say.

"Impossible!" However, a moment later, Ada directly vetoed this situation.

"It is impossible not to connect to the Internet, at least this one is absolutely impossible. If you do not connect to the Internet, your employees must always stay in the computer room and in front of the main console when using it. But it is obviously a kind of Unrealistic situation, at least in this research institute, need to enter more than a dozen passwords and match the anti-theft door with fingerprint verification, it is clear that people are not allowed to enter and exit casually!"

Ada spoke to each other in an imposing manner, and at the end, she raised her head vigorously to look at Alice: "This is my answer!"

What an answer, what an analysis, Alice was really pleasantly surprised. She simply asked a technical question, and Ada responded with behavioral psychology. It is not simply considering how to "invade", but field investigations and specific analysis of specific issues. It is not uncommon to apply it to older people, but this girl is only ten years old after all.

"Very good." But seeing Ada clearly wanting to ask for praise, Alice simply praised her.

"So as you can see, Ada, this ETA10-G/8 is the world's first supercomputer with a calculation speed exceeding 10 billion times per second. In order to buy the first test machine back to my research institute, I But it took a very high cost, and the advance payment was tens of millions. Then guess what it is calculating now?"

A supercomputer in operation, Ada had already seen its flashing lights everywhere. God knows when this calculation started, and God knows what it is calculating, so Ada guessed right away that there must be a next step in Alice's question.

"The name you named for the research institute is just 'Computer Research Center'." She said, "But the development of computers only depends on the improvement of hardware functions, and the focus is on basic technology. In terms of software, you have already been able to develop that... ...the Microsoft operating system, there is definitely no need to set up a special research center for this, so it is definitely not the software aspect."

Ada carefully and step-by-step analyzed the information she currently has. During the whole process, what Alice did was to watch. It is impossible for a little girl to think so far in the development of a ternary computer, so what answer can she come up with?

If this girl can really come up with the answer she wants, then maybe I can really reuse this potential...

"In the final analysis, the name of the Computer Research Center is very vague." I only heard Ada say: "So, this institution is actually just a cover-up, what kind of secret experiment are you really conducting that cannot be known to the outside world!? "

With her back to the busy supercomputer chassis array, Alice smiled with satisfaction.