"What do you mean by Mr. Sidney?" asked Liu Xiao.

"Is that what happened?" Sidney stirred his coffee, "Hehe, I don't know if I should congratulate you on this, or worry about you!"

Liu Xiao became more and more puzzled, he still didn't understand what this Sidney was going to say.

However, Sidney himself continued: "Congratulations, because it proves that your products are very marketable, and in this regard, SoftAlliance is successful, and your products will soon be popularized all over the world and become the new safety standard, and I am worried because you will become a new safety target." Do you know how many people are working on your software and trying to find any vulnerabilities in it, Mr. Liu?"

Liu Xiao laughed, "If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Sidney is probably one of them, right?", Liu Xiao felt a little clue in his heart, Sidney may have been a shame today, he was defeated under the strategic product last time, and now that such a long time has passed, it may be that he found some loopholes, and then ran over to take revenge!

Sidney was also happy, bowed slightly, and said: "Since the Black Hat Conference, I have been paying attention to the soft alliance, and I have been researching and analyzing your products, but I am not here today to talk about my own business! I want to ask Mr. Liu, do you know why so many people are selling your products at low prices? Who are they? Who else is researching your products besides me?"

Liu Xiao was a little surprised that Sidney was not here to take revenge, but his question made Liu Xiao very interested, "So, Mr. Sidney knows?"

Sidney nodded, "Mr. Liu has personally experienced the events in Estonia, so you must know some inside stories about the events in Estonia!"

Liu Xiao was quite surprised at this time, why he went to Estonia, Sidney would also know.

Sidney saw the surprise in Liu Xiao's heart, and said: "Actually, it's not just that you went to Estonia, even the fact that you deliberately increased the overseas price of your products this time is also expected by many people." It is based on this judgment that they can quickly start various plans and purchase your products at low prices through other channels!"

Liu Xiao was surprised to the point of incomprehension at this time, it turned out that those people did not want to make money by selling the products of the soft alliance, but they wanted to get the products of the soft alliance at a low price.

"Since the soft alliance became famous at the Black Hat Conference, some people have begun to pay attention to Mr. Liu, your behavioral characteristics, psychological characteristics, including some of your work style, these are the content of their research. You announced that you would never attend the Black Hat Conference in the future, and your attitude towards overseas companies, especially after you held a press conference and announced your cooperation with Warwick, they have already judged that you need to increase the price of your products overseas!" Sidney took his coffee and sipped carefully.

"Who are these people you are talking about?" Liu Xiao was already surprised at this time.

"They play for the ZF of all countries, and they are always on the lookout for every event and person that can change the global network landscape!" Sidney smiled, "It's a great honor to be targeted by them, but it's not a good thing!"

Liu Xiao immediately remembered Fang Guokun, the last time he was monitored, could it be related to this, thinking about it carefully, Liu Xiao felt that it was wrong, at that time, the Soft Alliance was not famous at the Black Hat Conference. "Then how could Mr. Sidney know this?" Liu Xiao looked at Sidney, could this guy be this kind of person?

"Don't get me wrong!" Sidney understood the meaning of Liu Xiao's words, and said, "I don't work for anyone, it's just that I've done training for some ZFs before and taught these people, so I know these things!"

Liu Xiao said "oh", feeling that this thing was a little incredible, how did he inexplicably become the object of research for many people, he now understands why he can know everything without a trace of snow, it turns out that there are really no secrets in this world, you think it is very secret, but maybe there are many pairs of eyes on your head.

"Mr. Sidney, I'm a little puzzled, what is the use of them paying attention to our soft alliance, we are still just a small company!" Liu Xiao asked.

"Because your product can help them solve a big problem!" Sidney said, "and that's why I just mentioned the Estonian incident, which is the impact of this incident that many countries want to use to legislate against cyberattacks, do you know what is the biggest problem they are facing?"

"It's difficult to collect evidence!" Liu Xiao responded, "And even if you get the evidence, the other party only needs to make up a reason casually, and you can still escape the punishment of the law!"

"Actually, it's not a problem!" Sidney shook his head, "The biggest problem is that they don't have that much money and manpower to support this law. For example, the United States suffers more than 20,000 cyber attacks every year, and each time it resists, it costs at least $1.5 million, and the United States spends more than $30 billion a year on this alone. If you want to qualify these 20,000 cyber attacks and determine whether it is an act of cyber warfare, then this number will have to be at least doubled, and if you want to get further evidence, trace the source of the attacker, and finally try the attacker, then there is no end to the amount of money spent, and even if you have the money, you don't have so many people to do it. In other words, if it really has this money, the United States can completely fight a war with real guns, which is more deterrent than any law!"

Liu Xiaomao suddenly opened, he is also studying network warfare these days, but it is far from being as thorough as Sidney, he is to the point, hacker attack is originally a small fight for big things, a hacker can even disrupt a country, but if the defender wants to take the big from the small, it will often outweigh the losses, mobilize a country's resources to get an individual, a fool will not do this. I didn't think about this before, probably because I couldn't see things from a higher perspective like Sidney.

"Mr. Sidney, you have a very reasonable point, please continue!" Liu Xiao didn't dare to underestimate Sidney now.

"The national network, as well as ZF's website, are all resources of a country, which are inviolable, and any attack on these resources can be regarded as a provocation and invasion, which is not divided into individuals and non-individuals, so the characterization of cyber warfare is not as difficult as imagined. In this regard, even the founder of cyber warfare has been sanctioned!" Sidney looked at Liu Xiao.

Liu Xiao nodded in agreement, the founder of cyber warfare should be none other than Little Morris of the United States. Speaking of little Morris, we have to mention his old son - old Morris, old Morris was the chief scientist of the National Center for Computer Security in the United States, this agency is affiliated to the National Security Agency, it can be said that the old Morris's attainments in computer security are very deep, should be second to none in the United States, and his son has created a big trouble for him.

When Morris Jr. was in college, he had a whim one day to test how big the capacity of the Internet was, so he wrote a virus and threw it into the Internet, and in just over 20 hours, more than 250,000 computers were infected, paralyzing the computers of NASA, the US National Defense Strategy Computer Main Control System and command centers at all levels, and the networks of many universities were terminated, causing losses of nearly $100 million. Compared with other viruses that followed, the loss of money caused by Morris may not be much, but his significance and impact are extraordinary, he first made people realize the destructive power of viruses on the Internet, and since then, various viruses have begun to appear one after another.

The court was slow to sentence Morris Jr., the maker of the virus, because the law at that time did not have any relevant provisions for Internet crimes, and it was not until a year and a half later that the court sentenced Morris Jr. to a three-year suspended sentence for causing a major accident. Interestingly, Morris Jr. later succeeded his Lao Tzu as the new chief expert of the National Center for Computer Security, and then there was the rapid development of cyber warfare.

"The current situation is long different from the time of little Morris, the virus has lost its former glory, from the appearance of the virus to its eradication, this time is getting shorter and shorter, and all countries have accumulated multiple sets of means in defending against the virus, which can minimize the harm caused by the virus, and the virus is no longer the preferred means of cyber warfare, not even conventional means!" Sidney smiled. But the new situation is that cyber attacks have become simple and widespread, as long as you download a hacking tool, anyone can launch an attack, there is an old Chinese saying, called 'the law does not hold the public accountable', in this case, you simply do not know who to sanction, if this problem is not solved, the legislation on cyber warfare can only be a dead letter. And your soft alliance products, just for everyone to solve this problem, your software firewall, even few people know about virtual attacks can be defended, and the hardware firewall can ensure smooth communication at any time, perfect defense against data flood, as far as the current situation is concerned, in addition to the virus, the rest of the more than ninety percent of the network attack behavior, your products can make the best prevention. ”

Liu Xiao finally understood at this time, it turned out that he had gone around in a big circle, and Sidney was going to say this, but for cyber warfare, Sidney's insights and opinions were indeed unique.

"When the hacking attack occurred in Estonia, it was the unexpected performance of your products that made the incident start to deteriorate, and some countries were determined to promote cyber warfare legislation. ”

"Ahh It turns out that the real source of confidence that allows Estonia to carry such a big data flood and connect to the Internet will be the firewall sample of the soft alliance. Although Liu Xiao also thought that the bigger the incident, the better, so that the popularity of the soft alliance would also increase, but now that he learned that his product really played a role in fueling the trouble, Liu Xiao was still a little unacceptable for a while.

"The network of each country is tree-shaped, and only by attacking the trunk of the tree can the survival of the entire tree be affected. In this Estonian incident, you have also seen that if it is only a data flood, as long as Estonia closes the link with the outside world, at most there will be some interactive losses, and what really causes harm is the two intrusions, especially the hackers who took advantage of the error messages sent by Estonian mobile operators, which caused great confusion to Estonia. Sidney looked at Liu Xiao, "In the future cyber warfare, the main thing to watch out for is these super hackers who can kill them with one blow, and the legislation is also to sanction these super hackers, your product is to free up everyone's hands to deal with these super hackers and force them to surface to the greatest extent." ”

Sidney doesn't need to talk about it now, Liu Xiao has already understood, he said: "In other words, it is already an out-and-out trend to use SoftAlliance's strategic-level technology to equip its own critical networks, and SoftAlliance's products will replace Microsoft's operating system as a target for the new generation." Only by successfully passing through this layer of protection created by the soft alliance can damage the trunk of the tree, and the vast majority of people are blocked from the outside of the protective layer, and those who pass through it are the attackers who launch cyber warfare, that is, the objects of legislative sanctions?"

"Hehe, you can understand that!" Sidney laughed, "It's your product that makes something that was originally a hassle easier at once." ”

Liu Xiao doesn't know whether to be happy or depressed now, he has tried his best, calculated and calculated, thinking that the time is coming, everything is under his control, who knows that while he calculates others, he is also calculated by others.

"Thank you, Mr. Sidney, for telling me these inside stories today!" Liu Xiao was a little sad and smiled bitterly, "Mr. Sidney didn't come today just to say this, right?"

"Of course not!" Sidney shook his head, "I gave you this information in exchange for one piece of your information. ”

"Please!" Liu Xiao looked at Sidney.

"Why can your software defend against virtual attacks!" Sidney looked at Liu Xiao, "Although I also know the principle of virtual attacks, I haven't come up with a practical and effective defense method, this problem has bothered me for a long time, I wonder if Mr. Liu can help me solve this problem?"

"Information for information, it's fair!" Liu Xiao smiled, "We have a saying, called 'the real can't be fake, the fake can't be true', as long as you see through its tricks, no matter how good the disguise is, it's no play." Take the magician as an example, he can make a train disappear from your eyes by using people's visual habits and poor vision, but if you look at it from a different angle, in fact, the train is not moving at all, and you will think that the magician is ridiculous. You didn't see through the magician's tricks, just because you weren't in the best position. It's like a mirror, the reason why you take the things in the mirror as real things is because your field of vision is too small, you can't see anything other than the mirror, but as long as you take two steps back, after the field of vision expands, you will first know that it is just a mirror, and no matter how things in the mirror change, it will no longer deceive you. ”

"Angle, field of view?" Sidney pondered Liu Xiao's words carefully twice, and then said: "I understand, I am too obsessed with the principle of virtual attack, I want to debunk it from the technique, but I forgot that there is a better way." Thank you, Mr. Liu's guidance made me pause!"

"You're welcome, we're just exchanging information with each other!" Liu Xiao said.

"Then I won't bother you more!" Sidney stood up, "I apologize again for what happened last time, please be sure to convey my apologies to Miss Shang Yue!"

"The matter has passed, Mr. Sidney don't have to take it to heart, I will bring your apologies to Miss Shang Yue!" Liu Xiao also stood up, "Then I'll send you!"

"You're welcome, stay!" Sidney said politely.

Liu Xiao still sent Sidney to the elevator, "If you have a chance, please come back to China!"

Sidney smiled and turned into the elevator. As soon as he left, Liu Xiao stood at the elevator entrance and began to scratch his head, what should he do now, if what Sidney said is true, then he will have to change his strategy.