In September 2014, a 13-year-old boy named Wang Zhengyang appeared at the China Internet Security Conference and became the smallest hacker recognized in my country.
Wang Zhengyang, 8-year-old self-taught programming, 10-year-old founded a website, 12-year-old because he did not want to learn, hacked into the school's answering system, he hopes to use his ability to become a white hat among hackers to maintain network security.
Wang Zhengyang's hacker journey officially set sail in 2012, and it has been 9 years now. Where is he now and how is he? Today's documentary will take everyone into the growth history of Wang Zhengyang, China's "smallest hacker".
Wang Zhengyang was born in 2001. He is a Beijing boy who was born and raised. Although we can’t know his family background from the information, from the perspective of his future development, his family conditions are not ordinary.
The year Wang Zhengyang was born was an era of rapid development of the Internet. Coupled with a computer at home, Wang Zhengyang has been exposed to online games when he was very young.
At that time, there was an explosive farm food stealing game, and Wang Zhengyang has been addicted to it for more than half a year. Unlike most parents, Wang Zhengyang's parents did not interfere too much with the matter of playing games. Instead, they were very open-minded to support their children.
Slowly, Wang Zhengyang became bored with the game of stealing vegetables. As a 00, he is at an age when he is interested in all new things.
In a coincidence, Wang Zhengyang discovered that as long as he pressed f12 on the computer keyboard, various codes would be displayed on the web page. At this moment, Wang Zhengyang was deeply attracted.
He asked his parents for advice, but their parents did not know the connection between these codes and the website. After all, this is not simple computer knowledge.
In order to solve these questions in the children's mind, his father bought Wang Zhengyang a lot of computer books, hoping that he could find the answers he wanted in the books.
Since then, Wang Zhengyang will spend a lot of time on computer knowledge learning every day,During this time, Wang Zhengyang not only mastered some programming knowledge, but also learned to write some simple small programs, demonstrating outstanding learning ability.
After seeing Wang Zhengyang’s love and talent for computers, his father also bought a top-of-the-line laptop for Wang Zhengyang. This computer has also become Wang Zhengyang’s closest "partner". As soon as school is over, Wang Zhengyang will Turn on the computer to study programming knowledge.
In the process of learning programming, Wang Zhengyang has accumulated a large amount of vocabulary because he needs to understand the meaning of the words that appear in the book, which has greatly improved his English proficiency.
At the age of 9, Wang Zhengyang, in order to facilitate the study of himself and his classmates, praised Haikou in front of his teachers and classmates: It takes one day to make a small program of "course reminder". But the result ended in failure, and he was ridiculed by his classmates.
This incident dealt a great blow to Wang Zhengyang, and even wanted to give up programming. Later, Wang Zhengyang found out the reason for his failure in the process of sorting out the computer just because he typed a wrong code.
After this incident, my father told Wang Zhengyang: You should understand that every step of programming is very important and you must be very focused, otherwise you will lose everything if you make a mistake.
These remarks benefited Wang Zhengyang a lot, and also helped him develop a rigorous habit of thinking.
In 2011, Wang Zhengyang, who was only 10 years old, began to try to create a website. He used the 400 yuan he saved to buy a ready-made website host, and put his own program on his own. .
In 2012, Wang Zhengyang devoted almost all of his time to the study of computer programming. At this time, Wang Zhengyang was in junior high school, and his learning tasks were also very stressful.
In order to prevent his after-school homework from occupying too much time, Wang Zhengyang hacked into the school's online answering system, and also cleared the results of all his classmates by the way.
In the eyes of the teacher, the usual Wang Zhengyang is a child of good character, so this incident makes the teacher and the school quite annoyed.After communication and understanding, the teacher discovered that hacking into the school system was entirely Wang Zhengyang's personal actions.
While marveling at Wang Zhengyang's super "hacking" ability, the teachers and school also gave him a profound education. I hope that he will make good use of his talent and not go down the wrong path.
Because of the correct attitude of admitting mistakes, the teacher and the school also expressed their willingness to give Wang Zhengyang another chance.
From this time on, Wang Zhengyang determined to become a white hat, that is, a good person among network hackers-an expert in maintaining network security.
The opposite of white hats is black hats, and "black hats" refer to those who specialize in illegal profit from black websites. In fact, Wang Zhengyang has always played "white hats" since he became a hacker. character of.
When he was 13 years old, Wang Zhengyang discovered that a certain sales platform had serious bugs, and he could buy 2,000 yuan products for just one penny.
Wang Zhengyang did not intend to profit from this, but promptly advised the platform to fix vulnerabilities as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary losses.
In addition, Wang Zhengyang also submitted a system vulnerability that may affect hundreds of educational websites to the 360 company's library belt plan, which surprised the engineer Ji Dong of the plan.
Ji Dong believes that: Although Wang Zhengyang's current level is fairly junior, he can have such awareness of cybersecurity at his age, which is far beyond his peers.
In November 2013, Wang Zhengyang established his first website. In addition to his previous hacking activities, Wang Zhengyang began to receive media attention.
In September 2014, Wang Zhengyang shared his hacking experience in the past few years at the China Internet Security Conference. His high talent and positive energy have been unanimously recognized by everyone.
Faced with interviews from major media,Wang Zhengyang said firmly that he is willing to become a white hat in the Internet. Just like a doctor, he will give advice to the website and help the website fix loopholes.
In 2017, Wang Zhengyang, who graduated from Tsinghua High School, went to Irvine, Orange County, California, to study. Irvine is known as the safest place in the United States, and many well-known companies are located here.
It is obvious that Wang Zhengyang has a clear plan for his future, and he will continue to pursue his dream of programming in Irvine. In fact, as early as the 2014 China Internet Security Conference closed, Wang Zhengyang began to settle himself.
He did not hype himself when the limelight was in full swing. Wang Zhengyang has always understood that the momentary enthusiasm will eventually be short-lived. Only by constantly enriching himself can he be responsible for his future life.
Finally, I also hope that Wang Zhengyang will be able to learn something in the computer field, return to the motherland as soon as possible, and contribute his own strength to the maintenance of the motherland's network security.
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