According to news from the capital, some problems occurred in the software business department of the FN Club.

A programmer from FN company was bored and the recent piracy of Pili Beibei antivirus software was serious. When he saw Microsoft's heavy blow to protect his rights, he was inspired and wrote a logic bomb that loaded it into the Pili Beibei antivirus software beta version.

This beta version of the software is distributed to netizens for free through the online download link, and is used to solicit user opinions for later improvement, so as to launch the official version.

The problem is that every time the FN Club launches a new antivirus software version, it will be immediately acquired by several competitors, and then crack and analyze it to find their leading edge, and then give their own antivirus software improvements as an important reference.

This time, software personnel from several companies discovered that logic bombs were loaded in this beta software of FN Club!

Regarding the use of logic bombs, facts. There are past records among anti-virus software companies.

In the middle of 1997, five computer anti-virus manufacturers including Xinyuan, Rising, Jingwei held a joint press conference in Beijing, claiming that the anti-virus software launched by Jiangmin New Technology Co., Ltd. contains logic bombs, that is, under specific conditions, the software will damage the user's computer system, causing data loss and inability to guide.

Once the news was released, it immediately caused an uproar in the society. After the final identification, the Beijing Computer Security Supervision Department determined that Jiangmin Company had violated the Computer Information System Security Protection Regulations and deliberately entered harmful data, endangering the security of the information system, and punished Jiangmin Company in accordance with the law. Jiangmin Company's excessive defense measures have also made many software manufacturers choose legal and rational in combating piracy.

The crisis faced by the FN Club this time was exactly the same as that of Jiangmin Company at that time.

A logic bomb in a computer refers to a computer program that is destroyed when a specific logical condition is met. After the program is triggered, the computer data will be lost. The computer cannot boot from the hard disk or floppy disk, and it may even paralyze the entire system and cause physical damage to occur.

The symptoms when a logic bomb is triggered are similar to those of certain viruses and can cause joint disasters to society. Compared with viruses, it emphasizes the destruction effect itself, and the procedures for implementing destruction are not contagious.

In the words of Jiangmin Company, the reason for the use of logic bombs was that for several months, a self-proclaimed independent Internet poison island forum ignored the international standards for protecting intellectual property rights, and brutalized the world's most important thing to download the decryption tool software of major domestic antivirus software, including kv300, which made the once convergent piracy rekindled. In order to prevent the pirates from spreading, Jiangmin Company did not hesitate to fight with its weak force.

Since the Poison Island Forum is a free domain name built on Internet through the server of a US company, and then automatically connects to the free homepage of the other two companies through this domain name, the issues involved are quite complicated.

The practice of providing pirated tools by the Poison Island Forum does violate Chinese laws or international treaties concluded by China. However, judging from the objective effect of Jiangmin Company's actions in this case, Jiangmin Company failed to pursue the island owner and the pirated tool makers, but instead pursued the pirated tool users. Doing so may damage the end users of the pirated tool users, and may also damage the dealers who further produce and issue pirated software among the pirated tool users.

Under China's national conditions, if end users who use pirated software are targeted for attacks, software manufacturers need to be very cautious. Not to mention whether software manufacturers can act as law enforcement officers on their own, software manufacturers whose interests are infringed can take self-protection measures, but cannot play the role of law enforcement officers.

At that time, a debate about the installation of logic bombs by Jiangmin Company was whether Jiangmin Company's behavior was to set up logic bombs?

At that time, Jiangmin Company also explained why it needed to set up logic bombs, saying that it added a "logical lock" program with highly intelligent logical judgment in kv300. This program was run when the pirates used the decryption key provided by the Poison Island Forum to copy the pirated disk. When the machine was run, a strict logic judgment program with a "logical lock" could accurately identify the pirated disk, start it immediately, and lock the pirated's computer hard drive, forcing the computer to stop working, and the hard disk data could not be used for the time being.

Therefore, Jiangmin Company believes that this "logical lock" with high intelligent logical judgment conditions does not destroy the hard disk data. As long as pirated users admit piracy to the headquarters of Jiangmin New Technology Co., Ltd., and register with relevant departments after Jiangmin Company registers and files it with relevant departments, it is conducive to tracing the piracy den, and then they can obtain unlocking conditions and restore hard disk work.

At that time, Jiangmin Company also proposed the theory of "active logic lock" and "passive logic lock". The "active logic lock" was placed in the software, and after the software was stolen by the "thief", once the "thief" uses the software, the "active logic lock" locks the memory bank of the computer, just like the "thief" is locked in the house, and only the copyright owner can unlock it with the "key". If the "thief" loves face, he can only destroy the "door" to unlock it.

However, this made many users who regarded using pirated software as a matter of course felt extremely indignant. Some people suggested that every household had no problem installing anti-theft doors. However, if someone powered the anti-theft doors, or if the underlying residents installed anti-theft power grids on the walls of their home yards, they would have serious problems.

First, the installer of the powered anti-theft door or the installer of the wall grid has no right to commit such acts that may endanger public safety. Second, innocent people may be victimized. Third, even if a thief is killed by electric shock, on the one hand, the thief is improperly killed, and on the other hand, the "installer" himself has no right to enforce the law on behalf of the law enforcement agency. Fourth, if the person who is hit by electric shock does "deadly die" according to law, the installer has no right to lynch his death. This is the minimum requirement of the legal society.

Therefore, as the installer of logic bombs, Jiangmin Company should bear obvious legal responsibilities.

The reason for the disputes and differences among relevant domestic sectors in understanding the logic bomb case of Jiangmin Company is how to understand the conflict between social public order and the interests of copyright owners, and how to deal with these conflicts.

Generally speaking, the basic function of copyright law is to maintain a balance between the rights of authors and other copyright holders and the interests of the general public, especially the interests of education, research and information.

A society should maintain normal public order, which is an important part of public interests and the minimum condition for the healthy development of the country and the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Compared with the copyright rights and interests of a certain person or a certain unit, the former is a public interest, while the latter is a private interest. The problem is not whether to safeguard private interests, but the effect of safeguarding private interests should not and is not allowed to harm public interests.

Assuming that software copyright holders learn from Jiangmin Company's practices and set up logic bombs in their own software in order to maintain their copyright, then, what minimum security can be said for computer information systems? What normal public order can society be said? What normal social management order can the country be said?

This time, after the programmers of the FN Club were discovered by several anti-virus software companies because they added logic bombs to the beta version, they immediately caused a lot of discussion in the society. Several companies filed lawsuits, saying that the FN Club installed logic bombs in the beta version of the software, which posed a great threat to public information security.

Fan Ting has been very troubled by this matter recently, so she asked Fan Wubing how to resolve this matter?

After hearing this, Fan Wubing scratched his head a lot, but obviously this kind of thing couldn't cause trouble. At most, it was just to hype several companies. He would do whatever he should do, but logic bombs would definitely not be installed in the software.

"Where is that programmer now? I should ask about the specific situation first before making a decision." After thinking about it, Fan Wubing felt that the person who tied the bell still needs to solve it. It is difficult to deal with if he does not understand first-hand information.

"He is an employee of our company abroad and now lives in Malaysia. The programs are transmitted through the Internet, and then the programmers on the company follow the modules." Fan Ting explained to Fan Wubing.

"Oh, I'm abroad." Fan Wubing patted his head, and suddenly he had an idea, "Ha, I have a way to do this!"

"Is there a way so soon?" Fan Ting was shocked and thought to herself that Fan Wubing's head was too useful?

This matter has a greater impact on the FN club. As for the issue of economic compensation, it can be ignored. According to the current domestic laws, it is only a fine of several thousand yuan at most, which is irrelevant. The biggest problem is that the damage to reputation is the most critical.

FN Club has been so many years, but it has not happened such a disgusting thing. It was caught by its competitors and sued it in court. This is the most embarrassing thing. If it doesn't matter if it wins, it doesn't matter. If it loses and becomes fined, it would be embarrassing.

At least everyone will do this to make negative teaching materials. After meeting friends, I can’t avoid saying that, look, even the FN club is no longer reliable, logic bomb! In the future, everyone should use some foreign antivirus software, at least they pay more attention to professional ethics!
Chapter completed!