Translator: VinceStar Editor: PrisMiko
âFortunately, it should be fine after a few days of rest.â w.a.n.g Zhitao said with fear and trepidation.
âWell, I have nothing to do for these few days, so Iâll just come over to accompany youâŚâ said Zhou Jiajia.
âWell⌠great! Thank you, Zhou Jiajia.â w.a.n.g Zhitao said, feeling moved, âTreat this as your own home. I just canât get up from the bed. My body is still weak, so I canât get up to receive you as a guestâŚâ
âItâs alright. You have a good rest.â Zhou Jiajia nodded. âDo you want to have some fruit? Can I get you one?â
âNo need⌠Thereâs a sedative in the injection that I received this morning which makes me a little sleepyâŚâ w.a.n.g Zhitao said as he yawned, âI have to sleep first⌠There is a TV in the living room. You can go and watch somethingâŚâ
âOkay then, you should rest.â Zhou Jiajia smiled sweetly. âIâve brought my notebook. You donât need to care about me.â
âGreatâŚâ w.a.n.g Zhitao nodded and closed his eyes.
Zhou Jiajia tiptoed out of w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs bedroom and closed the door for him. After waiting for a while, she heard the soft snoring in w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs room. Only then did she feel at ease.
Zhou Jiajia came to the living room. She first took out a small instrument from her computer bag. She adjusted the frequency and began to scan. Generally, many wealthy people like to install surveillance monitors and other similar things. Zhou Jiajia wasnât sure if there was such a thing in w.a.n.g Xifanâs home, so she had to be careful.
Fortunately, the result of the test was that w.a.n.g Xifan didnât have any monitoring systems installed at home. The reason might also because there was a maid at home. It wasnât easy to have a thief enter the house.
Zhou Jiajia breathed a sigh of relief and connected the computer to w.a.n.g Xifanâs network with a network cable. She looked at the IP address obtained by the computer. The IP network segment was local network X.
With the use of software to scan the computers on the current LAN, she didnât find other clients. It seemed that it wasnât booted up. So, Zhou Jiajia got up and went to the study upstairs. Fortunately, the door of the study wasnât locked. It seemed that w.a.n.g Xifan didnât guard himself.
Zhou Jiajia listened carefully to the movements in the corridor, then she quickly came to the desk to switch on the computer on the desk.
Following â Di ,â a crisp sound, the screen stayed on the BIOS boot up screen, âPLEASE ENTER Pa.s.sWORD!â
He actually set a BIOS pa.s.sword for the motherboard! This was the most difficult pa.s.sword for Zhou Jiajia. Zhou Jiajia just simply typed in the birthday of w.a.n.g Zhitao. It was incorrect. She also typed in the name of w.a.n.g Xifan, and it wasnât right. She tried a few more and it was still incorrect.
This kind of pa.s.sword wasnât like the pa.s.sword of the system. If it was the pa.s.sword of the operating system, it could be directly booted up by the PE system to bypa.s.s the original operating system. But, the BIOS pa.s.sword couldnât be dealt with as such. If the test wasnât pa.s.sed, the system wouldnât start up at all!
Zhou Jiajia was helpless. She probably had to take out the hard disk! Although the pa.s.sword could be cleared by removing the CMOS battery, that would be discovered by w.a.n.g Xifan.
Looking at the back of the computer case, Zhou Jiajia had another headache. It was a branded machine! The seams of the computer case were affixed with a pile of fragile seals with the glaring words, âInvalid After Tearing!â It seemed that the method of removing the hard disk from the computer casing couldnât be realized either. She could only find another way.
Zhou Jiajia sighed and left the study to come to the living room. Now, she could only try again from other places. Although she had to work harder, she still could achieve her goal.
She easily found the IP address of the LAN router. Zhou Jiajia used a browser to log in to the routerâs setting interface. However, it wasnât possible to display the page.
This router was either too high-end or too low-end. Zhou Jiajia could only log in via TELNET in the DOS window. It was a âFishman[1]â brand used in high-end internet cafes. Zhou Jiajia had also seen several units of this kind of router. The price was more than ten thousand yuan. All of them were for commercial usage. It was rarely used by the public. But, wealthy people like w.a.n.g Xifan might be an exception.
Unexpectedly, the routerâs pa.s.sword wasnât the default pa.s.sword because it had been altered. Zhou Jiajia had a greater headache. She didnât expect someone to change the access pa.s.sword of the router in their personal home. She didnât expect to get off on the wrong foot [2]!
However, Zhou Jiajia immediately figured it out. In retrospect, it was set up by the network engineer staff during the renovation period. There were two advantages to doing this. One of them was to prevent people who didnât understand computers from changing the settings casually. Second, once the network had a problem, customers could only find them. With that, they could earn an internet maintenance fee.
She walked around the house two times. Soon, Zhou Jiajia saw a router in the place where the network at the door was installed. At first glance, she couldnât help but become speechless. Sure enough, it was within her expectations. In order to prevent others from modifying the settings, there was no reset b.u.t.ton on the router. However, there was an advantage to it. Such high-end routers had a COM serial port for debugging.
As long as there was a serial port, it would be easy! Zhou Jiajia connected the serial port of the router with her laptop. Then, using the HyperTerminal, she easily obtained the pa.s.sword of the router.
As she entered the routerâs settings, Zhou Jiajia recorded the external network IP when there was internet input. Then, she looked at the internet records on the router.
She found out that only four computers in w.a.n.g Xifanâs home had been recorded on the router. One of them was a Mac which was the Mac notebook that she just used to surf the Internet. The other Mac was using the Macâs beginning format of the Intel wireless network card. So judging from this, it should be w.a.n.g Xifanâs notebook that surfed the internet.
As she checked out the connection method, it was indeed wireless access. The remaining two MACs should be the computer in w.a.n.g Xifanâs study and w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs computer.
It was much easier by process of elimination. After reading the timestamps for the IP addresses of the two MACs which had surfed the internet, Zhou Jiajia grasped the situation. One of the computersâ IPs accessed the internet during the day, and the other only occasionally accessed the internet at night.
w.a.n.g Zhitao went online at home during daytime recently. The computer that went online at night definitely was the computer in w.a.n.g Xifanâs study.
After grasping the situation, Zhou Jiajia set the IP of w.a.n.g Xifanâs computer into a âDMZâ in the router, and then she restarted the router. After the configuration had taken effect, the cable in the COM port on the router was removed. She carefully put the router back in its place.
As such, she only needed to monitor w.a.n.g Xifanâs computer every night. After her own setup, the computer in w.a.n.g Xifanâs study had been completely exposed to the external network from the original LAN.
Although it wasnât impossible for Zhou Jiajia to breach in without setting up the DMZ, it was relatively troublesome. The âFishmanâ brand router was a well-known hardware firewall router, which wasnât easily breached.
After getting all this done, Zhou Jiajia wiped the sweat from her face. A voice suddenly spoke behind her, âJiajia, what are you doing?â
Zhou Jiajiaâs hand was still on the router. It was an abrupt surprise as though her soul was going to escape her body. She turned around anxiously and saw w.a.n.g Zhitao standing not far away looking at her.
â Ugh ⌠this is the case. I think the speed is a bit slow. I wanted to see if there is any problem with the router hereâŚâ Zhou Jiajia quickly crafted an excuse.
â Oh , I see. I think this broken net is also slow. I must have been fooled by the people in charge of the renovation with this broken router. I have already wanted to replace it!â w.a.n.g Zhitao listened to Zhou Jiajiaâs words and went along with it. âI play games too. It makes me lag to death!â
âWhat game do you play? Which area?â Zhou Jiajia followed up with w.a.n.g Zhitao on the topic in order to escape from the awkwardness just now.
âLegend, I play Southern Telecom DistrictâŚâ said w.a.n.g Zhitao.
ââŚâ Zhou Jiajia was speechless. This w.a.n.g Zhitao really didnât understand even a small bit of professional knowledge. Y ouâre using Netcomâs network to play games in the telecommunications area. How could you suffer any lags?
âJiajia, after a few days, can you accompany me to buy a better router? Donât you understand this stuff better?â w.a.n.g Zhitao said, âIt always lags. When I PK [3] with the others, Iâm instantly deadâŚâ
âAlrightâŚâ Zhou Jiajia answered perfunctorily. She thought to herself, Your router is already good enough to open up an Internet cafe at home, but you still want to buy something better?
w.a.n.g Zhitao got up and went to the toilet. In fact, he also wanted to check if his hidden disease was better or not. After all, Zhou Jiajia was a beautiful woman and she was right in front of him. He could only appreciate her visually but not enjoy her. w.a.n.g Zhitao found it hard to endure.
However, the result was disappointing to w.a.n.g Zhitao. There was no reaction at all⌠So, w.a.n.g Zhitao still had to pretend to be a gentleman and keep a distance from Zhou Jiajia.
In fact, even if w.a.n.g Zhitao couldnât do that, he wanted to be more intimate with Zhou Jiajia. But, w.a.n.g Zhitao was terrified. He was afraid that when they became intimate if Zhou Jiajia couldnât control herself from doing it with him, then wouldnât he be done for?