"Hmm, I don't know the password for the surveillance room's main computer. But you could try 12345678, or eight zeroes."
The first idiot password unlocked the surveillance host, leaving Henry speechless. It was no wonder that a social outcast who had been locked up for thirty years had learned to hack and operate modern computers so quickly after getting out.
So all the institute's cybersecurity measures were in the most basic idiot mode, only slightly better than having no protection at all.
But that did not mean the computers here could become a hacker's paradise, because none of them were connected to the internet. With that kind of physical isolation, even the god of hackers would be helpless.
As for transferring large amounts of data, DVD burners were still not exactly affordable in 2003. CD burners remained the mainstream, while floppy disks were already on the verge of being phased out. The 5.25-inch disks were dead, leaving only the 3.5-inch ones barely hanging on.
But this was a research institute at one of the world's top universities. When demand was low, they could make do with old equipment. When demand was high, they would buy the newest and best no matter how expensive it was. So every computer here was equipped with a DVD burner.
Although USB flash drives, commonly known as thumb drives, already existed in this era, their mainstream capacity was still measured in MB, making them impossible to compare with a DVD's 4.7 GB. So the ideal way to transfer data was to burn it onto a DVD and carry it away.
The academic network's transfer efficiency, however, was rather mystical. Internally, network administrators placed no limits on professor-level scholars, and data could indeed be transferred at blazing speeds. But once it connected to the internet, it