Genius Club-Chapter 1147 - 31 The Truth and the Loopholes_2

"The reason I didn’t cut it open but slowly ground it instead, was to ensure that the internal structure wasn’t damaged... However, if you plan to use this Golden Badge to replace Copernicus to attend the Genius Club meeting, that’s obviously not going to work. The entire system has an identity verification mechanism—if you’re interested, I can explain it to you in detail."

Lin Xian scanned over the disassembled parts on the table and also found the ground waste material that didn’t seem to be real gold.

He pinched a bit of the scrap and rubbed it:

"Plastic?"

"Not plastic either, it’s a rather complex material. It feels and weighs similar to metal, but it’s not metal and does not conduct electricity."

The tech-savvy Jask was very professional:

"That’s for sure, Lin Xian. The principle of NFC involves using an NFC coil to obtain current. If you encase the coil in a metallic shell, then you are creating a ’Faraday Cage,’ which makes it impossible to establish a potential difference and current inside."

"I see."

Lin Xian discarded the scraps in his hand:

"At first I was pretty astonished, thinking there might be some high-tech involved."

"Then tell me about the [identity verification mechanism] at Genius Club meetings, I’m quite interested."

Jask pulled up a chair for Lin Xian to sit down and began to explain:

"From what I’ve gathered, before 2004, the Genius Club always used an offline meeting model. During the last meeting in 2004, Einstein gave Golden Badges to five of them."

"Oh, that’s Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Da Vinci, Gauss... There were only these five people in the Genius Club in 2004."

"Einstein said that from then on, meetings would take place over the network using the Golden Badge, as it’s more conducive to members hiding their identities. I’m told that the early network architecture was very rudimentary, though I’ve never seen it and don’t know what it was like."

Lin Xian nodded:

"So it seems that the original invitations to the Genius Club didn’t have the Golden Badge, and Einstein must have replaced the remaining three invitations afterward... sealing the Golden Badge inside the wax seal, waiting for the other three geniuses to find it."

"At the beginning, it was there, actually."

Jask leaned back, resting on the chair:

"But the badge in the wax seal of the initial invitations was a genuine solid gold Golden Badge, with no NFC features, and naturally, no identity verification function."

"Frankly, many operations within the Genius Club are rigid ceremonies, traditions are valued, just like this Golden Badge... In fact, there’s no need to make an NFC device like this, and those unnecessary Masks on the VR virtual avatars... But enough of that, let me continue."

"The key inside this Golden Badge is unique, it represents the identity, but from the moment you use it for the first time to attend a meeting, the system in the back end starts collecting all your biometric characteristics, such as voice, face, fingerprints, etc..."

"Of course, this collection is done silently, without you noticing. It’s been accumulating over the years, and while not all data might be collected, voiceprints are certainly feasible, as a person’s voiceprint, like fingerprints, is unique and distinctive."

"But it could be hacked, right?"

Lin Xian replied:

"To forge a fake fingerprint and voiceprint is technically challenging, but it’s not impossible."

"Let me finish."

Jask smiled:

"I was just using voiceprints as an example, but in fact, the identity verification system is very comprehensive, intonation, face, accent, laughter... The more meetings you attend, the more feature codes get stored in the server."

"Every time you use the Golden Badge to attend a meeting, don’t you have to wait for a long time with a blinking screen? That’s the meeting program confirming your identity through various methods."

"If it was an early and more rudimentary system, I’d guess it might be possible to circumvent verification, but... ever since Kevin Walker joined the Genius Club, redesigning the whole program and encryption logic, hacking it has become nearly impossible."

"It’s not just about being unhackable, any member of the Genius Club has likely tried various ways to locate the server of the Genius Club meeting system in order to obtain information about other members."

"But without exception, they’ve all failed. Honestly, I really don’t like Kevin Walker, but personal feelings aside, Kevin Walker’s technical level is certainly far ahead of the times. The strongest hacker on Earth, he truly lives up to his reputation."

...

Listening silently was Lin Xian.

He agreed with this point.

After all, even the super Artificial Intelligence VV couldn’t find Kevin Walker’s address and identity. This guy was definitely a genius among geniuses in the field of computer network technology, perhaps one won’t appear for hundreds of years who is even more formidable than him.

After all...

He was the one who secretly developed digital life.

While he deserved to be punished, Lin Xian also genuinely admired Kevin Walker’s technical expertise, and that was an undeniable fact.

Lin Xian looked up at Jask:

"So, in your opinion, Genius Club members are absolutely not subject to impersonation."

"From a technological standpoint, I don’t think it’s possible."

Jask stated with certainty:

"Unless you can find a genius more formidable than Kevin Walker, but the thing is... I don’t know if Einstein would allow such a thing to happen, after all, he is omniscient, and if someone impersonated a member to attend a meeting, he would definitely know it."