Written by 丨 Zhang Yuan
Editor 丨 Mei Ji
Interpretation of the Entertainment Value Officer:
Nowadays, although domestic variety shows are emerging in an endless stream, it is difficult to have new genres that can make our eyes shine. However, a recent alternative variety show has attracted the attention of the entertainment value officer.
This variety show brings together a group of top geeks comparable to He Students, competing in the program, the contestants are geek gods who can't sing and dance, but write code like flying geek gods, package the duel of this group of masters into an entertainment variety show that young people like to hear, and the production team completed a seemingly impossible task, not only broadening our imagination space for the possibilities of variety shows, but also showing the social responsibility that mass entertainment can carry.
The first domestic "Geek Challenge Reality Show" "I Am a Geek", specially produced by GeekPwn, one of the world's three major security geek events, will be the previous network security circle offline carnival of the attack and defense show for the first time to the screen, presented in the style of reality show variety show, through the on-site challenge of 20 technical teams, the security risks in daily life scenes are presented one by one - remotely hijacked cameras, Bluetooth headsets that are remotely cracked to achieve tracking and positioning, and mobile phones that are easily intercepted to transmit files to each other - Thus sounding the safety alarm for the public's intelligent life.
Refuse to "self-deprecating" in the circle,
What to watch in the first "Geek Reality Show"?
Compared with previous competitions, GeekPwn is more focused on the life scene of the general public this time, and the challenge projects of 20 technical teams are all about the security vulnerabilities that ordinary people may encounter, and the technical topics that young people are most concerned about at present are not "self-hi" in the technical circle, but are closely related to the lives of each of us.
When the entertainment value officer saw the second episode of the program, he found that the team focused on the ubiquitous risk of candid shooting in the living place, although there are already many products on the market that use the infrared principle to detect cameras, but we still can't find hidden cameras.
To this end, the "Legal Pioneer" team has developed a mobile phone application, hoping that users no longer need to bring special anti-stealing equipment when going out, and only need to bring a mobile phone to find out the surrounding cameras one by one. This challenge is also a perfect demonstration of the geek community's technical concept - someone uses technical means to secretly shoot, can we use technical means to combat sneak peeks? In the geek world, confrontation is exactly what they are good at.
In the third phase of the challenge project "Home of Defense", the value officer saw that two groups of players tried to crack the intelligent community security system at the same time. When the guests saw that both teams could crack the intelligent gateway within 30 minutes, so as to eavesdrop on the owner's home, disguise the property and open the access control of the unit building, they could not help but sigh: It really feels too close to our lives!
In the eyes of the guests, this show is the "315" of the smart circle. Through such a challenge project, GeekPwn aims to help manufacturers identify and resolve potential technology flaws and make smart lives safer. As Geek Pwn founder Wang Qi said in "I Am a Geek": "Unknown attack, know the defense? If we don't know where the security risks are hidden, how can we do better protection? This kind of safety problem is better to be found early than later, and it is better to be discovered by our players than to be discovered by bad people. ”
Dig out the great gods of the people,
Show the charm of the "white hat" group
Not long ago, a self-made smart charging table video of the star UP master "He Classmate" triggered a discussion on the whole network, indicating that the public has a high enthusiasm for such a "genius geek". In fact, there are many more young people who dare to explore and open their minds to challenge the "impossible task" lurk in universities, technology companies and research institutions. The reason why "I Am a Geek" chose the format of reality TV is to dig out these hidden technology experts and let young people with "special skills" have a stage to show themselves.
In these young players, the geek community's technical fanaticism and spirit of overcoming difficulties are vividly embodied. Because the laboratory is too far away, the NISL Internet Security Team of Tsinghua University has set up its own mini-laboratory in the dormitory, with all the equipment available, thus achieving 24-hour "research freedom".
In the project challenge of "Glasses Transfiguration", it was only three rounds of challenges to pass, but the participating teams resolutely decided to accept the fourth challenge, because "since they came, they must challenge to the end". In the face of the host's advice of "accepting when you see good", the contestant said: We are young and not suitable for this sentence. Such a confident attitude won the applause of the audience.
"I Am a Geek" is not only a concentrated display of the unique charm of the domestic geek group, but also a correct name for the "white hat" group, eliminating the general misunderstanding of the public about them - this is not a group of "bad boys" who will only mislead, but volunteers who are enthusiastic about "catching worms" for network security. Standing on this rare stage, many players have told their own journey in the security industry.
Wei Fan of the "just play" team will always be asked by friends "will you steal my QQ number" and "will you hack my computer" because of his study of the profession and related work, in the face of these ridiculous misunderstandings, he wants to tell everyone through the program: We do this work for research work, but also to help manufacturers improve security equipment and make life safer.
Contestant Zeng Yingtao was once an "Internet addict teenager" whose family did not want to see, and later he changed the eyes of those around him by engaging in safety work. In "I Am a Geek", he tries to "hijack" the insulin pump to make more researchers pay attention to the field of medical devices, thus benefiting 100 million diabetic patients across the country and eliminating the prejudice of "arrogant manufacturers" against geeks.
Variety effects are full!
A new way to play for the masses of niche shows
"Presenting a world-class geek competition in the form of a variety show, the challenge for the program production team is not lower than that of those projects challenged by the technical gods." However, some users Douban users said that the program is too much to restore the actual situation of the game, complex technical details are displayed too much, and there is still room for improvement. At the same time, because the contestants have been immersed in the study of technology, they are generally slightly restrained on the stage, and the show is slightly insufficient in terms of entertainment.
Different from the previous geek competition is basically just a team immersed in hard fighting, the challenge task of "I am a geek" will have the participation of guests (such as the live mobile phone mutual transfer photos for players to intercept), gameplay and viewability are greatly enhanced, and will go out of the live broadcast room to the real "cracking scene", such as the remote hijacking of intelligent service robots The "rampage robot" project is carried out in a chain hotel, the scene demonstrates how to control the food delivery robot without contact, and the familiar scene will make the audience have a sense of immersion. A real sense of danger may be all around us.
In addition to inviting Jiang Changjian, the host of "The Strongest Brain", to host the show, in the selection of on-site guests and expert judges, "I Am a Geek" also allows professionals and powerful idols to have more chemical reactions. For example: "Nine Ball Queen" Pan Xiaoting and "Water Brother" Wang Yuheng, two guests, are both specialized in the art industry, and have a strong appeal among young people, they express their intelligent safety anxiety from the perspective of the public, ask questions to experts on behalf of the audience, let the program attract more young audiences, you can see that such a choice has achieved the effect of "breaking the circle" at the mass level.
The two expert jury representatives", "Big Bullfrog" Wang Qi and "Godfather" Yu Yang, are both god-level figures in the Chinese geek circle, who are mainly responsible for revealing the "mystery" behind the god-like challenge project, explaining the technical steps in real time during the competition, so that the audience can know more about why it is so, not only to see a hilarity but also to see the doorway. They will also start from the challenge project to further popularize the development of network security and eliminate unnecessary panic and anxiety of the audience.
The entertainment value officer found that the "I Am a Geek" program group also invited the security technology leaders of Huawei, Tencent and other technology companies to participate in the discussion of technical details, which is also a collective appearance of the top domestic security practitioners, which is enough to set off the "star-chasing" enthusiasm of the national code farmers, and also let the "guards" who guard the information security of hundreds of millions of users come to the front of the stage from behind the scenes.
epilogue
Although there is no hot pre-publicity, "I Am a Geek", which has quietly launched, has attracted the attention of many keen audiences and triggered a new round of discussions about network security. Some viewers commented on Douban: I hope that more and more "I am geeks" will appear in the future, so that "niche" technology and technical people can be seen by the public. "I Am a Geek" program is being screened on platforms such as Tencent Video, and the annual 1024 Programmer's Day, this group of geeks will stage the ultimate brain showdown on the night of the pole.
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