Chapter 20: The Old Bookworm, a City Pawn
It was Mitnik, and as soon as he entered, he said as if he had nothing to do, as if he had finished eating.
Therefore, Shen Jiannan was stunned.
He knew that Mitnik was very talented in computers, and he also knew that Mitnik was very powerful, but the computers in Italy were only the usual configuration on the market, and it was not so easy to design a complicated program trading system.
"Kevin. Are you sure? Don't worry, we've got time. ”
"Shen. No, boss. Do you have some misunderstanding?"
"Walter?"
"It's just a program, I have ready-made code, and I just need to put in the input command. ”
"Wait. You just said you have ready-made code?"
Shen Jiannan asked with puzzled writing on his face.
Suddenly, Mitnick glanced at the boss he had just recognized as if he were an idiot.
"Not really. How do I get into the Pentagon's defense system? The procedure you need is very simple, if the price reaches 10, then open 10 lots, if the price reaches 10.1, then open 100 lots, I just need to reprogram the offensive code, and it will completely meet your requirements. ”
“......”
This Nima, can it be the same thing?
Shen Jiannan was speechless, he found that discussing this kind of issue with Mitnick would make him seem mentally retarded.
"Are you sure there are no problems?"
"Of course. We can connect on the phone first try. ”
“......”
Shen Jiannan looked confused.
With the level of a computer that he can only turn on and turn off, and he can't even install the system, this kind of thing beyond his comprehension is really incomprehensible.
But thankfully, Mitnik is a man of action.
The two of them walked out of the room and went to the makeshift design room on the second floor dedicated to Mitnik.
A disassembled Nintendo game console was messed up with a computer and a telephone, and Mitnik picked up the gamepad and pressed a button.
Bell Bell Bell –
Something magical happened, and the phone in Shen Jiannan's pocket suddenly rang.
This thing was almost not scared, he didn't even tell Mitnick his phone number, and no one else would be able to tell him about it.
"How do you know my number?"
Mitnik shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "This is a game I've been playing since I was fifteen. I can make any call for free and naturally know your phone number. ”
“......”
Nima.
When encountering this kind of real genius, what can Shen Jiannan do.
He can only rejoice that Mitnik is still a fugitive in the rebellious period of his youth, otherwise one day he will be recruited by the US government, and God knows if he will come to attack the firewall of Capital One and steal the core position data, which will be a nightmare for capital.
"Kevin. I'm curious, since you have easy access to any financial system, you have never been tempted?"
"Your question is stupid. ”
"Kevin. Please respect me a little, anyway, I'm your boss too. Right. ”
“ok。 Whether it is entering the banking system to obtain wealth or looking for information to sell, we don't talk about moral issues, it is a very serious violation of the law, and if I am caught, those capitalists will probably put me in prison. But I just invaded, and the law doesn't explicitly state that it's illegal. ”
"That's why you're a pauper?"
"Now, it's time for me to ask questions. ”
“ok。 You ask. ”
"How much are you going to pay me? ”
“......”
Shen Jiannan didn't speak, and stretched out a slap.
Mitnick was stunned, his eyes were open to the limit through the lenses, and his young face was full of disbelief.
"Five thousand dollars?"
“......”
Does this guy really have no idea about money? Or does he not know his worth at all?
Shen Jiannan didn't know what to say, his original intention was to give Mitnik an annual salary of five million US dollars, but now, this annual salary seems to be saved a lot.
"If you like the number, then it's the number. ”
"Boss. You are so generous. ”
Isn't this thing mocking me?
“......”
Autumn is a season full of gloom.
The arrival of cold air has gradually turned many hardwood trees in Italy, and as the autumn wind sweeps through the yellow, red, and dry leaves, one can instinctively feel that a bitter cold is coming.
On the fourth floor of the Ministry of Finance Building, Jovari Goria's face was blue, and his eyes were full of anger and helplessness.
There was a newspaper on the table.
[Wall Street Journal]
The front page of the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Bundesbank President Schlesinger, in which he said: "The problem of instability in the European monetary system can only be solved by the depreciation of some national currencies......"
Although Schlesinger does not directly mention which countries are "some countries", this hint is sufficient.
Schlesinger's public lack of confidence in the Eurotonic monetary system, and singled out the lira's weak foundation, has put the lira in a very precarious position. It is conceivable that by the time the forex market opens, there will be a lot of selling of lira in the market and a lack of buyers.
Retaliation, this is retaliation from Germany.
Revenge for Italy's dragging back that year, revenge for the demands he made earlier when he was in Bath.
Damn the Germans, it's always so nasty.
Finland's crisis is still vivid, and if it fails to hold the lira, Italy's forty years of wealth will be plundered by the damned international speculators, just like Finland.
Monti district, central bank.
Carlo Azerio Ciampi looked at the huge LCD screen not far away, nervous like never before, as the president of the Bank of Italy, he knew better than Goria what challenges the lira would face.
In recent years, with the wide range of applications of computers and the introduction of information from the Internet, the new generation of capital has been able to conduct foreign exchange transactions through the Internet. Carlo Azerio Ciampi has given the capital that uses the Internet to conduct cross-border transactions a name: the e-nomads.
For a long time, Cimpi noticed the growth of the electronic nomads, and wherever these guys went, the volume of any target would be abnormally multiplied, and the amount of volume represented by that volume, even as the head of a country's central bank, would make Cipi feel terrified.
On several occasions, Champi has submitted his views on e-nomads to the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet, arguing that the foreign exchange reserves of the central bank in the past should be changed in the wake of the changes brought about by modern information transmission, as evidenced by the collapse of the Finnish mark.
You know, before this, no one dared to imagine that international capital would dare to attack the central bank of a country.
However, no one cared about Champi's advice.
Even if the Finnish mark collapsed and Ciampi submitted his opinion on the electronic nomad again, no one cared.
This is because the need to add more foreign exchange reserves will put more pressure on Italy's already declining economy, and the addition of new trading systems will also require new capital to invest.
Bell Bell Bell –
The hurried telephone ringing was extremely harsh in the trading room, and the head of the trading department paused for a moment, and hurriedly handed the silent phone to Qian Pi.
"Carlo. It's me, and you're going to have to hold on at all costs, and I think you know what that means to us. ”
"Goria. I have no faith, no faith. You don't know the horrors of the electronic nomads, and now the eyes of all the capital in the world are focused on the lira by Schlesinger's talk, and our seven billion reserves are simply not enough to see. ”
"Listen, Carlo. I know you're under a lot of pressure, but we're going to win. We can raise the current interest rate to 15 percent, so that the capital that wants to flee can be saved. ”
"But Finland ......"
"Finland is different from us, they are not members of the Community, and if we can't hold it, the Bundesbank will definitely help. I'll talk to Schlesinger again and ask them to lend us a lot of money. ”
“.......”