The new generation of geeks, it’s time for you to play.
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CTF (Capture The Flag, Chinese: Capture the Flag) is a common form of competition in the field of cybersecurity. It originated from the 1996 famous American hacker conference DEFCON. The participating teams won the corresponding flags through offensive and defensive confrontation, program analysis and other forms, and submitted them to the organizer to score. Our protagonist today is related to such events.
Before seeing Li Changwei, Wen Qi, and Ma Huixin, three new champions who had just returned from the Plaid CTF victory, never thought that today’s safety geeks would be so young. However, in 1990, it has been regarded as the domestic Internet security circle of the predecessor of the CTF industry. The official appearance of the three young people does not seem to be abrupt.
To outsiders, a group of young people sitting around and facing a string of codes on a computer screen, it seems to be like a thousand yard farmers, uncommon, far from news or movie “hackers” The image is more impactful. But in fact, only when you are closer to them can you see their persistence and dreams, and see the rise of this young force in China’s cybersecurity cause.
1 Modern cybersecurity in the eyes of the new generation of geeks
In the summer of 2013, the Prism Gate incident broke out, and cyber security issues quickly became the focus of global attention. While most people are still unaware of this, Li Changwei, who is in the critical period of volunteering for the college entrance examination, was interested in this security incident that affected the nerves of China, the United States and Europe, and reported it in all the first volunteers. Information security major, and finally got his wish to enter Xi’an University of Electronic Science and Technology. In Shanghai, Wen Qi also successfully entered Fudan University, taking the first step in his network security career.
Before that, Li Changwei and Wen Qi never thought about the information security major they chose. In the future, they will accomplish what they are, or even find a suitable job. The curiosity about the “hacker” world and the sense of accomplishment obtained through simple vulnerability mining techniques have become their most original motivation for choosing a profession.
Most students who choose to major in information security have a “heroic” dream. The legend of “Chinese red guest” around the millennium is still talked about today. And it is precisely this dream that led a large number of post-90s. After 2013, they chose to study information security. If there is no such dream, as Wen Qi said, “On the future, the professional choice at that time is really not as good as other computer professional directions.”
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