Chapter 252: It's all high-tech
As soon as Liu Xiao returned to his office and sat down, Shang Yue followed.
Liu Xiaoqiang cheered up, "Shang Yue, something?"
"It's nothing!" Shang Yue walked up to Liu Xiao's desk, stretched out his hand, and said, "What do you see what this is?"
"What?" Liu Xiao glanced at Shang Yue's hand, but saw nothing, so he wondered: "Do you look at palmistry?
"Look carefully!" Shang Yue stretched his hand in front of Liu Xiaoyan again, "In the palm of his hand!"
"Still nothing......" After Liu Xiao finished speaking, he suddenly found that Shang Yue really had something in his palm, a small black dot, Liu Xiao took a closer look, and then he was happy: "What is this, the mosquito of country F? What are you doing with this thing, throw it away!", Liu Xiao finished speaking, and handed over the ashtray on the table.
"This doesn't look like a mosquito!" Shang Yue was anxious, "Take a closer look!"
"What is not a mosquito?" Liu Xiao smiled, but seeing that Shang Yue was so serious, he reached out and pinched the mosquito over, as soon as he started it, Liu Xiao found that something was wrong, this mosquito seemed to have some weight, rubbed his fingers, and the mosquito not only fell apart, but also had a texture. Liu Xiao brought the mosquito to his eyes and took a closer look, and found that this thing was no different from a real mosquito, the appearance was a mosquito, but the texture was obviously not a mosquito, if a mosquito could be so tough, would it still be called a mosquito? Liu Xiao suddenly had a word in his mind at this time, this should not be the legendary "mutant mosquito"!
"I'll go find a magnifying glass!" Shang Yue finished speaking, turning around and about to go out.
"No, I have it here!" Liu Xiao carefully put the mosquito on a blank piece of paper, then opened the drawer and pulled out a magnifying glass, which was the guy he usually used to look at the globe, which happened to come in handy at this time.
After looking at it with a magnifying glass for a long time, and didn't find anything wrong, Liu Xiao was confused, and handed the magnifying glass to Shang Yue, "This seems to be a mosquito, strange, how can this mosquito skin be tougher than cowhide!"
"What's more!" Shang Yue took the magnifying glass, "This mosquito straw is harder than a steel needle, just now in the laboratory, I pressed it with my fingers, and I didn't have much idea at the time, but after they moved the computer, I found that the mosquito straw actually pierced my skin!" Shang Yue took the magnifying glass and carefully looked at the mosquito's straw, "Look at it, the color of this straw is wrong, it is obviously the luster of metal!", Shang Yue said very mysteriously.
"I'll take a look!" Liu Xiao took the magnifying glass again, stared at the mosquito's straw for a long time, and there was indeed something wrong with the color, Liu Xiao took out his nail clippers and twisted them vigorously at the mosquito's straw, but the straw was as thin as a hair was not damaged at all, Liu Xiao's color suddenly changed greatly, what kind of monster is this, not to mention human skin, it is a cement wall, I'm afraid it can also pierce.
"Why don't you find an expert to take a look?" Shang Yue asked.
Liu Xiao frowned, thinking that it was indeed a bit nonsense for two computer geniuses to lie here to study mosquitoes, so he said: "Okay, let's find an expert to take a look!", after speaking, Liu Xiao realized that something was wrong again, and said: "What kind of expert are you looking for, mosquito expert? Forget it, I don't think anyone will specialize in mosquitoes, just put this thing here for me, and I'll deal with it!"
Shang Yue looked at Liu Xiao in confusion, then frowned, and said, "Okay, if you figure out what this thing is, remember to tell me!", the girl's curiosity is always strong.
"I know!" As soon as Shang Yue left, Liu Xiao turned his eyes to the mosquito again, this mosquito is too small, especially the mosquito legs, you must have a magnifying glass to see clearly, but after this half a day of tossing, it has not lost a leg, intact, no matter how stupid Liu Xiao is, he also understands that this is not a mosquito.
"Strange!" Liu Xiao put down the magnifying glass and stared at the mosquito in a daze, "What the hell is this thing, and how can it appear in the case of that computer?"
As the business director summarized Liu Xiao, "out of nothing, there is something new", Liu Xiao is this kind of person, at this moment, Liu Xiao linked the mosquito and the computer to the hack, although it is a bit absurd, but Liu Xiao dares to think. If this mosquito is really man-made, it has all kinds of electronic components in it, and it carries commands to invade the computer, it is not impossible, but Liu Xiao can't figure it out, is it possible for this thing to exist? This is just a story in science fiction movies!
"Is it really the era of nanotechnology?" Liu Xiao asked himself, now the particles of CPUs are getting smaller and smaller, only a few tens of nanometers, but the real nanotechnology is far from mature enough. It's much harder to make a microcomputer the size of a mosquito than it is to embroider on a mosquito's legs, because all the electronic components have to be completely redesigned and tailor-made, and every part of it is a cutting-edge scientific problem. Besides, how powerful it must be to be able to build such a super microcomputer, whose level of technology has surpassed that of all existing institutions, even Intel and the like, are beyond the reach of the dust!
Liu Xiao didn't believe that there would be such a powerful person in the world, "But what is this thing?", Liu Xiao looked at the mosquito and was worried, and finally sighed, "Let's find an expert to take a look!" After speaking, Liu Xiao took out a glass bottle from the drawer, carefully packed the "mosquito" into it, and temporarily locked it in the bottom drawer.
Langdon has moved to the office of the previous person in charge and started working, and the big desk is full of all kinds of materials at this time, all about Liu Xiao. After Langdon and Liu Xiao came into contact, he realized that he didn't understand this person at all, this person was too elusive. Liu Xiao is a cautious person, he clearly knows that the purpose of arranging this summit is to provoke the soft alliance and the ind to fight each other, but he actually agreed, and he is going to fight the ind exclusively; he is obviously a person who will repay him, but the words that scolded him at the summit were said from the perspective of country F, and they hit the nail on the head.
Langdon couldn't figure it all out, so he had to dig out all Liu Xiao's information, and he had to have a new understanding of Liu Xiao.
After reading the information, Langdon still couldn't figure out the truth, so he had to blame everything on one point: "Liu Xiao is a real safe person!" Langdon sighed and closed the information, this one seemed to be full of ambition, The Chinese who only stared at money in his eyes is actually a truly respectable industry model, everything he has done is indeed a threat to the interests and status of many people, but if you put aside the inherent position and look at it purely from the perspective of the security industry, then everything Liu Xiao did was a big purge and purge of the entire security industry, he let those rotten industry scum tumors, quickly float and die, let the advanced eliminate the backward, let the alliance of interests that block themselves, become a loyal promoter of advanced technology, and the rapid promotion of strategic-level products has greatly improved the security of the Internet。
Langdon finally understood why he was always unsure of Liu Xiao's pulse before, because when he was thinking about things, he preconceived to make a qualitative of Liu Xiao, and he only regarded Liu Xiao as a super hacker and a saboteur, and forgot that Liu Xiao had another identity, and he was still a thorough security person.
"Smack!" Langdon slammed his fist on the table, if he had thought through this earlier, maybe there would not have been this cyber crisis in country F at all, maybe there would not have been this shameful fraud, and he wouldn't have to bother to organize this summit.
"Report!", at this time, the voice of the report was heard outside the door.
Langdon had to calm down for a moment, and then said, "Come in!"
The door was pushed open, and a signal soldier entered, "General, Colonel Webb of the Cyber Security Department, and the commissioner of the Ministry of Defense have arrived, and they want to talk to you about solving the cyber security crisis!"
"Okay, I see!" Langdon waved off the signal soldiers, got up, straightened his clothes, put on his general's hat, and went out.
Walking into the conference room, Webb and a Department of Defense commissioner were already waiting. "You've been waiting for a long time!", Langdon said politely, and sat down as well.
Webb cleared his throat, "General Langdon, we are here today mainly for two things, first, to summarize the information of the three parties, verify the progress of the investigation of the IND agency, and see if there is any hope for the recovery of 2.1 billion; second, the three of us will discuss a practical plan to prevent the cyber security crisis from further deteriorating." ”
Langdon bowed slightly, "There is no new progress on our side of the Intelligence Department for the time being, and the IND agency is out of nowhere, and it can't catch a clue, and it seems a little slim to recover the 2.1 billion! I wonder if there are any new discoveries on both of you?"
When Webb and the Commissioner of Defense heard this, they both frowned and shook their heads, and it seemed that they had also made no progress.
Langdon sighed, "Then let's start discussing the second question, you guys talk about your opinions first!"
The commissioner of the Ministry of Defense glanced at the other two and said: "The opinion of the Ministry of Defense is still the same as before, first, hire an experienced security expert as soon as possible to take charge of the current cyber security situation, and second, in order to avoid the recurrence of the previous fraud, this security plan must rely on our own domestic security products." ”
Webb frowned, seeming to disapprove, and said, " I don't think this plan is very feasible, first, the process of finding and screening experts, is very cumbersome, and time-consuming, what we need now is an emergency measure, we can't wait to find out this expert; second, if we are not careful, it is very likely to lure the wolf into the house again, we have seen the means of IND, it is impossible to prevent it, it is difficult to ensure that they will not set us for the second time; third, domestic security products, technical standards have far lagged behind the world standards, which is also the most fundamental reason for the outbreak of network security crisis in China, if we go to purchase these products, the money spent is no different from being defrauded by INDand nothing will improve our cybersecurity performance in the slightest!"
The commissioner of the Ministry of Defense was a little breathless by Weber, but fortunately he could still hold on and not get angry, so he said: "Then according to your Cyber Security Department, what should I do?"
Webber was speechless, because he didn't have any real plans, although the Cyber Security Department was an independent department, it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Defense, and he had no independent rights, even if he proposed any plan, it had to be approved by the Ministry of Defense before it could be done, so Weber didn't bother to put forward his plan.
Langdon coughed, "Then I'll give you my opinion!"
The two men stopped confronting each other and looked at Langdon to see what he could do.
"In my opinion, we should also buy the strategic products of the soft alliance!" Langdon said very clearly.
"No!" the commissioner of the Ministry of National Defense immediately objected, "We can't use any foreign security products, and we can't do the same twice!"
"This is the wisest choice we can make at the moment!" Langdon stared at the commissioner, refusing to budge at all, "You have all seen clearly what happened at the summit two days ago, after seeing the methods of the IND, all the security agencies are silent, they dare not pursue the IND, and they dare not even mention it. Let's ask, who of you dares to use the security products of these institutions with confidence?"
The Commissioner of the Ministry of Defense also shut up, as a security agency, when encountering a security threat, he was like an ostrich, pretending not to see or hear, covering his ears and stealing the bell to such an extent, who would dare to buy their products.
"Only the soft alliance has publicly stated that it wants to pursue the IND, no matter what their intentions are, but if we want to support it, we must also support this kind of moral and responsible security agency. Langdon paused, "Our intelligence department has done a thorough study of Liu Xiao and the soft alliance, Liu Xiao has never been in the limelight, since he dares to say that he will pursue IND, then naturally there will be some means and techniques." We may not be familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the products of the SoftAlliance, but we know very well how powerful the IND is, and if the SoftAlliance can really be on a par with the IND in terms of technology, then why don't we use their products?"
Neither Webber nor the commissioner spoke, frowning at Langdon's words.
"That's just one thing!" Langdon looked at the two of them, "Second, I've done a follow-up and analysis of all the countries that have purchased and assembled strategically sized products, and I have a comparison of the numbers here, you can take a look!", Langdon pulled an icon from his folder and handed it to the two.
"Whether it is the scale or the previous level of security, the network of country G is very similar to the situation in our country F. After they configured a large number of SBUN's strategic-level products, the hacking incidents of their key networks dropped by 90% compared with before, and for this alone, they could save more than 7 billion yuan per year on network security, while they only used more than 2 billion yuan to purchase strategic-level products. Also, within a month after the strategic level was assembled, there was not a single incident of espionage theft in their critical network, whereas in the past, there were no less than 200 incidents of theft per month!" Langdon sighed, "On the contrary, we have more than twice as many hacker attacks and spy thefts as usual. In the past month, we've spent more than half of last year's total on cybersecurity!"
"In terms of cost performance, the strategic product is definitely the most cost-effective!" Langdon looked at the commissioner, "In terms of security performance, the strategic product is also the most secure in the global security market." At the beginning of the promotion of strategic-level products, SoftAlliance has formulated a high-end route, and their products are only sold to large customers such as key government networks and telecom operators, so that the products will not easily fall into the hands of ordinary users, and those civilian hackers are difficult to access high-end strategic-level products, so as to ensure that for a period of time, strategic-level products will not be found loopholes. ”
At this point, Langdon stopped, picked up his cup and drank from his glass, he had to give the two of them time to think, to digest his point.
Looking at the almost, Langdon continued: "I remember that the year before last, when our country F was the rotating presidency of the European Union, it proposed to include cyber attacks in the scope of war and legislate, but two years have passed, and we are still worried about the fire in our backyard. Looking at country G, they hesitated and hesitated on this issue before, but since they assembled strategic products, they have become die-hard supporters and promoters of this decision. The same performance, as well as Estonia and Russia, they also want iron-hearted legislation to combat cyber warfare, where is their confidence and confidence?" Langdon "snapped" and put down the cup, "It is the strategic products of the soft alliance that give them such confidence!"
Webb finally spoke, "That'...... , I heard about F? SK has tripled the price of its strategic-level products?
"Yes!" Langdon laughed.
"Wouldn't it be a loss for us to buy their products now?" asked Webb.
"We're going to have to lose somewhat, but it's not going to be huge!" Langdon looked at Webb, "F? SK has privately increased the price of its products, which is equivalent to deliberately raising the threshold for strategic product promotion, which is not in line with the interests of the soft alliance, and the soft alliance will not sit idly by!"
"I don't understand!" Webb didn't understand.
"It was also when I re-studied Liu Xiao today that I thought through some of the previous questions!" What Langdon was referring to was Hua Wei's strange 5%, the timing of the appearance of this 5% product in country F was too strange, Langdon had doubts before, but he never figured it out, but now he understands, that is, the soft alliance sanctions F? SK's means, "If we can reach a consensus and decide to buy a strategic-level product, we can simply start from F? SK can buy a small part of it, and the rest of the products will naturally be offered, and the price is even lower than the standard price!"
"Since General Langdon said so, then I'll take your meaning back to the Department of Defense to study it!" When the commissioner listened to Weber's question, he knew that Weber had agreed to Langdon's plan, and two of the three parties agreed, and he couldn't object again, "I will also take this chart back!"
"Okay!" Langdon nodded happily, but he didn't forget to advise, "but this matter must be decided quickly, our network is already overwhelmed!"
When he got off work, Liu Xiao took out the glass bottle from the drawer, put it in his pocket, and then went downstairs to go home. As soon as he arrived downstairs, a shiny car was inserted in front of Liu Xiao, which startled Liu Xiao a lot, and when he looked up, he saw an African man jumping on the car, and he opened the car door with a "bang", revealing Qian Wann's round face.
"Liu Xiao, come, get in the car!" Qian Wanneng beckoned to Liu Xiao.
Liu Xiao was a little surprised, then he was overjoyed and got into the car, "Old Qian, when did you come to Haicheng, why didn't you tell me!"
"Give your kid an unexpected surprise!" Qian Wanneng smiled, and then instructed the driver to drive, "I shipped a shipload of goods to Xiaohua, and by the way, I came to Haicheng to see you, and I also gave you a gift!"
"What gift?" Liu Xiao laughed, "You and I don't have to be so polite, and bring gifts, it's really, funny!"
"This gift is different!" Qian Wanneng's eyes were only a slit when he laughed, "You know all about the 2.1 billion defrauded of country F!"
Liu Xiao nodded, not knowing what this had to do with the gift, "I just came back from country F today!"
"This is your share!" Qian Wanneng took out a card from his pocket, as well as a document, "400 million!"
"What 400 million?" Liu Xiao felt that something was wrong after Liu Xiao finished speaking, and exclaimed: "How can there be my share here!"
"Hey, hey, hey!" Qian Wanneng laughed darkly, "That *** Wallis old thief, I can't get used to him for a long time, I didn't think he would dare to send someone to kidnap you, I was angry, so I asked IND to help me teach the old thief a lesson." A total of 2.1 billion profits were obtained, IND took 1.1 billion, and gave me 1 billion, excluding the cost, there is still 800 million left, and you and I are half of us!"
Liu Xiao's eyes widened suddenly, he knew that IND was hired to defraud country F, but he didn't expect that the employer was Qian Almighty.
"What are you kid stunned about!" Qian Wanneng stuffed the card and documents into Liu Xiao's arms, "Put it away!", and then laughed, "Wallis, the old thief has finally fallen, and as soon as I am happy, I came to Haicheng, and I have a good drink tonight!"
Liu Xiao came back to his senses and stuffed the card and documents to Qian Wanneng again, "I can't ask for this money!"
"Why?" Qian Wanneng was stunned, "why can't you take it!"
"Old Qian, you help me get angry, I, Liu Xiao, will be grateful to you for the rest of my life!" Liu Xiao looked at Qian Wanneng and sighed, "You can ask for this money, but I can't ask for it, because I am a safe person! If I take this money, when I stand in the company and talk in the future, I will be weak-hearted, and even go to the prison cell to see Wu Feifei, I can't straighten my waist, I can't stand up!"
Qian Wanneng didn't expect Liu Xiao to say this, thought for a moment, and said: "You kid is too serious, okay, I know that your kid has a high heart, and he will do great things in the future, don't want it!", Qian Wanneng was not embarrassed Liu Xiao, he knew that Liu Xiao's words did not mean anything else, it was a matter of personal principles, "I will look at your money, if I donate it for you, don't feel distressed!"
Liu Xiao smiled and shook his head, "You just deal with it." We've got to celebrate for Wallis and I know there's a great restaurant, so let's go there and have a few drinks!"
"Okay, you are the landlord, you have the final say!" Qian Wanneng patted his belly, "I haven't been so happy for a long time!"
Liu Xiao pointed out the way to the driver, and suddenly remembered one more thing, "If you can invite IND, then you must know the contact information of IND, right?"
"That's natural!" Qian Wanneng looked at Liu Xiao, "You want to contact them?"
"Yes!" Liu Xiao gritted his teeth, "Our corporate secrets have been exposed by them, and we want to find them to theorize!"
"Oh?" Qian Wanneng was greatly surprised, "How can there be such a thing!", after pondering for a moment, Qian Wanneng said again: "I think this matter is just settled, you may not know much about this IND, with the current strength of the Soft Alliance, it is not their opponent at all!"
"You just need to tell me their contact information!" Liu Xiao smiled, "It's going to be fine, I have an idea!"
Qian Wanneng frowned, thought for a long time, and then said, "Okay, I'll tell you about it when we get to the hotel later!"
The two soon arrived downstairs in a restaurant, came in and booked a secluded private room, and when the waiter left, Qian Wanneng said: "The IND agency has an electronic bulletin board on the Internet, and every other week, a batch of catalogs of sales materials will be released." The address of this electronic bulletin board is rarely known, only the senior heads of the intelligence ministries of various countries can know, and no search engine can search for this bulletin board, IND distributes an account number and password to everyone who knows, only with the account number and password can you see the content of the bulletin board, if anyone is interested in one of the materials, you can go and take a picture, and IND will then send you the information!"
"If you don't have an account number and password, won't you be able to contact them?" asked Liu Xiao.
"What I just said is an ordinary way!" Qian Wanneng still had some doubts, as if he didn't want Liu Xiao to contact IND, "But they contacted me in another way!"
"Then tell me!" Liu Xiao hurriedly asked.
Qian Wanneng thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth, "About a year and a half ago, IND took the initiative to contact me, they wanted to order some strange things from me, and only our Qian family in the world can find these things, and then the number of orders increased, and we established a long-term cooperative relationship between us, and we have a fixed contact information!"
"Strange thing?" Liu Xiao quickly took out the glass bottle from his pocket when he heard this, "You can see what this thing is!" Liu Xiao dragged a piece of napkins and poured out the mosquitoes in the bottle, "The appearance looks like mosquitoes, but the texture is extremely tough, the mosquito legs are thinner than the hair, I use nail clippers to cut constantly!", Liu Xiao took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and handed it to Qian Magnum.
When Qian Wanneng heard this, he quickly picked up the magnifying glass, stared at the mosquito for a long time, and then sat there in a daze with a pensive face.
"Old money!" Liu Xiao saw that Qian Wanneng didn't move for a long time, and was a little anxious, "What the hell is this?"
Qian Wanneng shook his head, looking incredulous, "Where did you get this thing?"
"Let's talk about what this thing is!" Liu Xiao also wanted to know the answer.
"It's not a mosquito, this layer on the outside is a biomimetic material, I've seen this material, and only one biological research institute in the United States can produce this kind of thing in the world, but it has never been used in any way. Look at this again, the place where you have twisted with a nail clipper has a metallic luster at the fracture, which proves that there is a lot of things inside! This kind of metal should be a nano synthetic metal, which is harder than diamond, but more tough than cowhide, and of course it is impossible for your nail clippers to twist it! It is said that a research institute in Australia has made great achievements in the field of nano metal research! Qian Wanneng still shook his head after speaking, "Strange, how can you have such a thing!"
"Have you seen this thing before?" asked Liu Xiao.
"I've seen it, but it's much better than this!" Qian Wanneng stared at the mosquito again, "I saw it at a microrobot research institute in Japan last year, it's about the size of a cicada, it has no specific function, it just can move, and it can only fly out about 10 meters at a time due to the power supply! This thing is so small, can it fly?"
"I don't know either!" Liu Xiao smiled, "When I saw it, I couldn't move." Now that you know these materials, then this thing will be given to you, and you can see what this thing is for!"
"It's okay!" Qian Wanneng put the mosquito back into the glass bottle, "I'll find someone to study it, and I'll tell you the results when I have them!"
"Okay! Then let's move on to the topic, IND's contact information!" Liu Xiao smiled.
As soon as Liu Xiao finished speaking, the door of the private room was pushed open, and the waiter walked in with a plate, "Excuse me, this is the dish you ordered!"
Qian Wanneng saw it, so he had to put away the bottle and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, eat first, and I'll tell you after eating!", after speaking, he quickly raised his chopsticks.
Liu Xiao arrived at the company the next morning, and as soon as he entered the door, he found a foreigner standing there, who was the head of the Skiko company in China, who was standing there and looking at the staff area of the soft alliance.
"Hello!" Liu Xiao walked over.
When the foreigner heard the voice, he hurriedly turned around, "Mr. Liu, hello!"
"I'm sorry, I've kept you waiting!" Liu Xiao raised his hand, "Come, let's talk about something in the office!"
"Don't sit down!" The foreigner smiled and took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, "I don't have anything important to do today, I was just entrusted by someone to introduce a business to Mr. Liu, all the relevant documents are here, Mr. Liu can look at it first, and I will listen to it in two days!", the foreigner handed the document to Liu Xiao, and bowed slightly, "Then I won't disturb Mr. Liu's time, I will leave first!"
Liu Xiao watched the old foreigner hurrying back and forth, and couldn't help but wonder a little, and only after sending him into the elevator did he turn his attention to the document in his hand.