There are really a lot of people coming from iDeface, six or seven came at once, and the moment Liu Xiao received them, he was more inclined to the speculation that iDeface intended to acquire the soft alliance, otherwise what would they do with so many people, and they wouldn't dare to be so blatant if they dug up the wall.

Since he didn't dig the foot of the wall, Liu Xiao's face eased a lot, and he took this group of people into the soft alliance and sat in the conference room, in order to show reciprocity and respect, Liu Xiao also called six or seven people from the company to sit in.

"iDeface is one of the most well-known security agencies in the world, and it is a great honor for us to come to our soft alliance this time!" Liu Xiao said politely.

iDeface took the lead in one of their vice presidents, and the vice president was also polite, "The influence of the soft alliance in the Asian security community is also extraordinary, and the first stop of our iDeface trip to Asia is the soft alliance." ”

"I don't know what iDeface is all about?" Liu Xiao smiled.

"There are two things!" the vice president smiled, took out a document from his briefcase, and handed it to Liu Xiao, "Two months later, it will be the annual Global Black Hat Conference, and this year's organizer is still our iDeface, and we very much hope that the soft alliance can participate in this conference!"

"Oh?" Liu Xiao picked it up and looked at it, a little surprised, it seemed that the conference had never invited the soft alliance before, "It is our honor for the conference to invite the soft alliance, but I am a little puzzled, the conference has been held so far, it seems that Chinese hackers are rarely invited, why did the soft alliance suddenly invite us this time!"

"This is the negligence and bias of the organizers of previous congresses. The vice president smiled, "You and I are very clear that European and American hackers and Chinese hackers have had several conflicts because of some different political positions, resulting in very antagonism between the two sides. This year, the conference was again organized by iDeface, and our president thought that since it was a global technology conference, it should only talk about technology and not involve other reasons. Chinese hackers have become more and more influential in the world in recent years, and if the conference is without Chinese hackers, it will be imperfect. SoftAlliance is the symbol and leader of Chinese hackers, and our special visit is to hand over the invitation, hoping to promote a perfect global black hat conference!"

"iDeface is really well-intentioned!" Liu Xiao smiled, "Okay, we accepted the invitation, and we will definitely send someone there at that time." ”

"Thank you for your support of iDeface and the Black Hat Conference!" thanked the vice president.

"What about the second thing?" Liu Xiao asked, this invitation is just a incidental thing, and he estimates that the other party's second thing is the main topic.

"What about these two things...... the vice president paused, "We at iDeface are specialized in security intelligence, and we work tirelessly for it." Recently, we launched a new program with dozens of software and security vendors around the world, and we at iDeface are ready to establish a long-term relationship with the world's top 100 security organizations. ”

"Cooperation?" Liu Xiao was a little surprised, "Although everyone is engaged in the field of security, the direction is very different, where does this cooperation start?"

The vice president took out a thick pile of documents and handed them to Liu Xiao, "This is about the specific content of cooperation, please take a look at it!"

Liu Xiao took it, opened it and looked at it, and said, "I will read this document carefully, but it will take a certain amount of time, so can you please give me a brief introduction to the key points of cooperation!"

"Of course you can!" the vice president paused and said, "This cooperation is simply to sell us the unknown vulnerabilities in your hands to iDeface!"

As soon as these words came out, several people present in the soft alliance couldn't sit still and talked in a low voice. As Da Fei said yesterday, many people want to rely on the few unknown loopholes in their hands to prove their strength and improve their status and value, and it is impossible to hand over these loopholes casually, even if they buy it, it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to accept it.

"We at iDeface have maintained in-depth cooperative relations with dozens of software and security vendors around the world, and security organizations such as iDeface have many of the most outstanding talented hackers with a large number of unknown vulnerabilities in their hands, and if we can reach a cooperation intention, it will be a win-win or even a win-win cooperation. The vice president continued to explain, "In terms of the overall environment, the global security technology is constantly upgrading, and our means of dealing with various security crises are more simple and effective, but on the other hand, various technologies for cracking and testing vulnerabilities are becoming more and more mature, and the discovery of vulnerabilities has become very easy." There is a proverb in our circle that hackers are always ahead of security, and these endless unknown vulnerabilities have seriously threatened the security of the network. We are both in the field of security, and we face the same problems as our enemies, and I don't think there is any principled problem with our cooperation. ”

Liu Xiao frowned and thought about iDeface's words, which is the reason, but when it comes to cooperation, Deface's bounties over the years have never stopped, they have clearly marked prices around the world, levying all kinds of unknown vulnerabilities, but they are involved in some hackers who fight alone, and formal security agencies generally do not interfere with this matter. After all, everyone is in the security business, selling security products, if you cooperate with iDeface, selling security suddenly becomes selling vulnerabilities, the image is not good, and the impact is not good!

Liu Xiao pondered for a while, and said: "I'm afraid we have to study this matter, and we can't give you an answer immediately, please forgive me." ”

The vice president of iDeface shrugged, "I can understand, but I hope you can give a time frame, we can't wait forever." ”

"Three days! Within three days, we will definitely give you an answer!" Liu Xiao held out three fingers.

"Alright, we'll wait for your news!" the vice president of iDeface had to nod.

"If there are no other arrangements, I will stay for a light meal at noon today, it is rare for you to come to China, by the way, learn about the soft alliance, and give us some advice!" Liu Xiao smiled.

"I don't dare to take my opinion, but understanding is a must, because there are many things that we iDeface can learn from SoftAlliance. As for the ...... of eating, the vice president was a little embarrassed by Liu Xiao's hospitality.

"What, do you have other arrangements?" asked Liu Xiao.

"To tell you the truth, in addition to these two things about the soft alliance, there is another thing when we come to China this time!" said the vice president smiled.

"That's it!" Liu Xiao paused, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"If SoftAlliance is willing to help, it will be great!" the vice president of iDeface was very surprised, "We came to China this time and wanted to learn about the situation of China's network underground industry chain. ”

Liu Xiao changed color when he heard this, this guy didn't know that something had happened to the Soft Alliance, so he deliberately came to humiliate the Soft Alliance, so he asked coldly: "How can iDeface care so much about China's affairs?"

"It's not just China!" the vice president of iDeface shook his head, "According to our iDeface monitoring, in recent years, the global network underground industry chain has gradually matured, and their tentacles are all over every corner of the network. We would like to take advantage of this trip to Asia to improve this information, get specific data, and then work with security vendors to come up with a countermeasure. In fact, the reason why we iDeface proposed this cooperation plan is precisely because the reason why these underground groups can develop and spread rapidly is mostly due to the unknown loopholes in their hands. ”

"Do you mean that iDeface launched this cooperation plan in order to curb the development of these underground groups?" asked Liu Xiao.

The vice president of iDeface nodded, "That's it, actually!"

"If that's the case!" Liu Xiao gritted his teeth, "I can give you an answer now, our soft alliance agrees to this cooperation, and we are willing to sell the unknown vulnerabilities in our hands!"

The vice president of iDeface obviously didn't expect Liu Xiao's attitude to change so quickly, and he was a little unacceptable for a while, and looked at Liu Xiao blankly, "This ......"

"What, do you guys have any questions?" Liu Xiao looked at the people in iDeface. Liu Xiao is the most aware of the harm of the underground group, so he feels that this reason is the most convincing for him.

"No, no!" iDeface's people shook their heads again and again, with a look of joy on their faces, after coming out for so long, the Soft Alliance was the first security agency to agree to cooperate.

Is there a problem with iDeface, but the people of the soft alliance have a big opinion, and they all open fire, "How can this work? Our soft alliance has never done such a thing!", "Besides, we sold to them, and they also sold it to those software companies, and they are the ones who eat meat, and we can only drink some soup, which is not fair!", "This matter must not be agreed, our soft alliance is based on this private goods, and if we sell it to them, what else can we do?"

Liu Xiao waved his hand to signal his people to calm down, "The contract is not signed now, I will give everyone a satisfactory explanation in a while!", the people of the soft alliance stopped making noise, Liu Xiao turned his head to look at the people of iDeface, "It's okay to cooperate, but I have a request!"

"Please just say it!" the vice president of iDeface nodded, "If it makes sense, we can accept it!"

"We can resell the unknown vulnerabilities we have to iDeface, but we ask to share other vulnerabilities that iDeface has!" Liu said.

"This!" said iDeface's vice president, a little excited.

Liu Xiao motioned for him to listen to himself first, "Of course, we don't want to share other vulnerability information for free, we will pay iDeface a sharing fee, but iDeface must guarantee us a very low price." Since everyone's purpose is to fight the underground group, then everyone chooses to cooperate, which means forming an alliance and sharing information between allies, which shouldn't be an excessive request, right?"

The vice president of iDeface nodded, "From this point of view, this request is very reasonable, but I can't call the shots, I need to ask the headquarters!"

"Okay, I can wait!" Liu Xiao smiled, "I'm sure iDeface's headquarters will agree!"

"What about the situation of China's underground industry chain...... "iDeface's vice president is still thinking about this.

"Don't worry, we'll compile this into a document, and I'll hand it over to you when we meet next time!" Liu Xiao still smiled.

"Thank you so much!" iDeface stood up, "We'll go and notify the headquarters now, and we'll let you know as soon as we have the results!"

The people who sent iDeface away, the people of the soft alliance surrounded Liu Xiao, and they still said that they must not agree to this cooperation.

Liu Xiao had no choice but to bring these people back to the conference room, and said: "I'll first state my reasons, if I finish speaking, everyone still opposes it, then let's have a collective vote, I respect everyone's choice!"

Everyone nodded their heads to indicate that it was possible!

"The first reason why I agree to this cooperation is because our soft alliance is also a victim of the underground group, this incident, the technical elite of the soft alliance is almost all planted in, as long as he iDeface acquisition loophole is to stifle these underground groups, our soft alliance has no reason not to support! Second, why do the technical elites of our soft alliance plant it?" Liu Xiao glanced at everyone, "It's because of money! It's because they feel that there is no hope of making a lot of money in technology, so they choose to take risks." I won't mention it in the past, as long as I, Liu Xiao, preside over the work of the Soft Alliance, then my first task is to increase the income of the employees of the Soft Alliance, so that all talented people can make a lot of money, and it is clean money. Why can't we sell the vulnerabilities in our hands to iDeface? We don't steal or rob them, we spend time, energy, and effort to find the vulnerabilities, and it is natural that we should be rewarded, and after iDeface acquires the vulnerabilities, it is not used for illegal purposes! What do we have to be ashamed of?"

"As for saying that selling vulnerabilities will reduce the strength of the soft alliance, I think this is excessive worry, can any of you tell me which security agency has survived by relying on one or two vulnerabilities to survive so far?" Liu Xiao smiled, "No, not a single one! Vulnerabilities will become obsolete sooner or later, there are no forever existing vulnerabilities, if a security company is forever intoxicated by a few unknown vulnerabilities that it knows, then the company will have to close its doors sooner or later!" Also, I promised to cooperate with iDeface, but the loophole is in your hands, and it is your right to sell it or not, and I can't force you. ”

"iDeface's visit today made me deeply feel the gap between the soft alliance and the world-class security agencies, when iDeface's strategic vision has been aimed at the world, we are still calculating the gains and losses of our own pair of chopsticks and bowls. Liu Xiao sighed, "iDeface's plan has given me a lot of inspiration, if it is placed on the global platform, any company has its own strength, and the real master can integrate other people's resources to serve themselves, iDeface is like this." If we don't change our thinking, then I can only regret to tell you that if others eat meat, we will never have to drink soup!"

"Whether to sell vulnerabilities or not, the rights are in your hands, the income belongs to the individual vulnerability holders, and the soft alliance will not deduct a penny from everyone, but there is one point, the sale of vulnerabilities must be handled by the company for filing, this is the first principle! Second, iDeface must agree to the conditions I put forward to share other unknown vulnerabilities. Liu Xiao looked at the crowd and waited, "If on the basis of these two principles, everyone is still opposed to cooperating with iDeface, then I can only express regret, but I will respect your choice!"

"Now everyone votes collectively! If you agree to cooperate with iDeface, please raise your hand!" Liu Xiao finished speaking, and he raised his right hand first.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally raised their hands, Liu Xiao really said it.

"Okay, since everyone has no opinions, this matter is settled!" Liu Xiao withdrew his hand, "In addition, I have other things to discuss with you." As you know, our soft alliance is now greatly damaged in technical strength, so the top priority is to cultivate a large number of technical elites, and the other is to improve the mechanism to prevent similar things from happening again. ”

"First, from now on, each branch of the soft alliance must have a technical discussion meeting every week, we can put forward the technical difficulties encountered in the usual time, discuss with each other, solve them collectively, and if they can't be solved, they can be reported to the headquarters; second, the headquarters takes the lead, and all the technical backbones of all branches conduct a remote video conference every week, the theme of the meeting is to carry out training and exchanges of new technologies and new methods; third, each branch uses the time on Saturday and Sunday to recruit a group of interns for training, who are willing to engage in network security careers, interested in network security, regardless of whether they have academic qualifications, whether they have graduated or not, we can consider it, so as to strengthen the hematopoietic ability of our soft allianceFourth, in the future, three tests must be arranged to strengthen supervision to prevent the occurrence of underreporting and private possession; fifth, the company's existing business should be classified and refined, the advantages and main businesses of the soft alliance must be determined, and a long-term development plan must be formulated!"

"Also, as we all know, the company may have a new consortium to take over in the near future, and it is important to stabilize people's minds, and the company needs to establish a new set of personnel and operation systems. This time, I hope that everyone can participate and work together to negotiate a system that is most feasible, fair, and efficient. ”

After Liu Xiao finished speaking, the conference room was suddenly surprisingly quiet, no one spoke, they all looked at Liu Xiao like that, which made Liu Xiao a little at a loss for a while, could it be that he said something wrong?

"Damn! This should have been done a long time ago!" Suddenly, one person slapped the table, "Our soft alliance is finally a little bit like when it was first founded! Mr. Liu, I support you, what you say, I will do it!"

Several other people were also excited, and they all slapped the table and jumped up, expressing their support for Liu Xiao. Anyway, Liu Xiao's words today made them see hope, in this young man, they felt the leakage and momentum that they did not have when the boss was in the past, which reminded them of the scene when the soft alliance was first founded, forcing Microsoft to issue 26 security patches in a row in January.

"Reshape the spirit of Chinese hackers and revitalize the former majesty of the soft alliance!" I don't know who shouted, this has become the consensus of everyone at this meeting, and it has also become the principle of practice of the soft alliance in the future!