Recently, a piece of software has caught everyone’s attention and aroused public outrage. What is going on? Let's take a look~
Currently, foreign epidemics continue to spread, and domestic epidemics are spreading sporadically. As the Spring Festival approaches, epidemic prevention and control has become a top priority.
In order to ensure the health and safety of the people, strict prevention and control regulations have also been introduced across the country. Going in and out of public places to take temperature measurements, check health codes, and wear masks have become essential procedures for our daily travel.
However, a Weibo blogger found an app called "Health Code Demo" in the Google App Store. The app can simulate the different display styles of health codes/resumption codes/pass codes in various regions, and can also switch regions. , Custom display data.
At this time last year, due to negligence of prevention, the epidemic worsened, and everyone was in panic and anxiety every day. In order to avoid a recurrence of the epidemic, the country began to take measures at this time of this year, and each of us actively cooperated.
But at this time, this kind of software appeared, and thousands of people downloaded it. What are the developers' intentions?
According to the developer, this app can "simulate different display styles of health codes, resumption codes, and pass codes in various regions".
In its function description column, it is also written that the APP can not only display different health codes, but also display green code, yellow code, orange code, and red code status.
Moreover, users can also customize the display data, such as location, city, name, etc.
In short, basically the display status of the official health code can be faked by this APP.
The APP also marked "Precautions" in the details, saying that it is only for demonstration purposes and the QR code is not the actual health code or resumption code.
But if it is not used to forge the health code, what use is it for others to download it? What is the purpose of the developer developing this?
From the screenshot, we can see that the app has a score of 3.1 and has been downloaded more than 1,000 times.
In the comments, users also reported after use, "I hope the author can do more areas."
It is conceivable that this APP can easily be abused to fish in troubled waters during serious epidemic prevention, causing extremely serious consequences.
After the unremitting efforts of netizens, I found more information about this development project.
It is reported that this developer named Morrowind Xie uploaded the code repository of the APP on Github to open source it as early as July last year, and also put a link to the Google store.
This person's information on Github also shows that he is located in Hangzhou, China, and uses "artificial intelligence disguised as a human" as his signature.
According to the screenshot of the Github warehouse in October 2020 found by netizens, Morrowind Xie opened the APP to allow more people to develop more health code styles.
Sure enough, a new developer has developed the "Fujian version of the pseudo-health code", and "encourage" others to continue to modify it, and let more people know! And the speech is accompanied by radical speech.
Of course, you don’t have to panic. Currently, the above APP and Github warehouse links have been removed.
This is not just a spoof, but someone deliberately used technology to do evil.
In the afternoon when the incident was exposed, countless netizens contacted the police to report the incident. At the same time, some local reporters rushed to the above address registered on the APP to find out the situation. However, according to the information learned by the reporter, there is a tenant at this address who has been renting here for four or five years, but it is definitely not a company. In addition, a staff member of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Shangcheng District, Hangzhou said that the company could not be queried through this address, and it was preliminarily inferred that it may be an individual act or a forged address.
Such incidents have caused great interference in the prevention and control of the epidemic, and the police have already intervened.
The health codes implemented throughout the country originally provided brand-new technical means for epidemic prevention and control and the restoration of normal social order. Now the fake health code has become a tool for some people to fish in troubled waters, causing a burden on epidemic prevention personnel and medical staff, and can also harm everyone around them. If this APP spreads, the consequences can be imagined.
For this app, some developers analyzed, "It feels intentional to post to Google Store, to foreign websites, fake addresses, and no specific contacts."
And this kind of behavior is a scum among programmers! "This kind of person is a shame for android development."
Others suggested, "Developers and users of this product are offended and punished severely."
At present, the country has made strict regulations on behaviors that affect the prevention and control of the epidemic.
If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law; if a crime is not constituted, a public security punishment shall be imposed in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments.
Among them, the second paragraph of Article 291-1 of the Criminal Law stipulates: “Making up false dangers, epidemics, disasters, and police information, spreading them on information networks or other media, or knowing that it is the above-mentioned false information, deliberately Anyone spreading on information networks or other media that seriously disrupts social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance; where serious consequences are caused, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years."
Skynet is magnificent, careless but not leaking, I hope the wicked will settle down soon!
In addition, if this is a conspiracy, there will be more counterfeit software, and the developers are taking advantage of people's selfishness. But please trust the medical staff and the country. If you refuse to download, this software will not spread again!