Chapter 124: Swimming Against the Current

During this time of July 1999, the major news agencies were as happy as a holiday, because every day there was a different news, like snowflakes, for them to choose.

And these messages were basically relayed by the CIA's internal computers.

In the past, these top-secret news were unthinkable, but now they are like cabbage at their disposal, and the choice is really a happy trouble!

As the world's largest intelligence agency, Sam's CIA has become the laughing stock of the world. But in the face of this, the CIA is at a loss, and has no idea where to start.

At the end of July, a message was added to the mailing list about Cisco, the world's largest router manufacturer.

The content discloses: in the Cisco core router 7600, there is a backdoor, through which hackers can directly control the router and further launch DNS hijacking, information theft, phishing and other attacks, directly threatening the security of users' online transactions and data storage, making related products become security "landmines" that can be detonated at any time.

As soon as the report was issued, the major telecom operators became nervous, including the Celestial Empire and other major telecom countries, and the core routers used were basically all Cisco 7600 series.

Telecom experts have verified that this backdoor does exist and is widely present in almost all of Cisco's router products.

If we say that the Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerability has a greater impact on individual users, it basically has little to do with large enterprises.

Then, the backdoor problem of Cisco backbone router has completely detonated everyone's sensitive nerves, because this model of router is used in the backbone network of almost all countries, once it is controlled by hackers, or mastered by intelligence agencies such as CIA, it will be a disaster for a sovereign country.

A spokesman for Cisco urgently refuted the rumors, saying that the news organization's report deliberately sensationalized in order to attract attention, causing everyone's panic, but it is actually not that serious, so let everyone not worry. The company will roll out a patch to address this product defect in the fastest possible time.

Cisco, which has a monopoly on the backbone router industry, has no competitors, so it is still a dead duck and unwilling to accept the problem of the router backdoor, which has provoked these telecom companies to condemn and threaten that if it is not solved as soon as possible, the core router will be replaced and Cisco products will be abandoned.

Subsequently, the bullish Cisco, the stock plummeted, and the market opened every day to fall endlessly, and the disk was dazzlingly red, because Sam's country's stocks, red represents falling, and green represents rising.

In less than 10 days, the market value of Cisco's stock has been evaporated by half, and it seems that there is still a lot of room for the downward momentum.

In the face of domestic and foreign difficulties, Cisco's President Chambers personally held a press conference to announce that all 7600 series routers would be replaced free of charge to protect the network communication security of customers.

In the end, Chambers said angrily that in the future, unless the court allows it, all Cisco products will not allow the CIA to do reverse analysis, and the intelligence agencies will never be allowed to reserve backdoors in their own products.

In fact, Cisco is completely aware of the existence of backdoors, and even some backdoors are provided to intelligence agencies on their own initiative, which is also an obligation as a Sam's State enterprise. However, good intentions were treated as donkey livers and lungs, and leaks within the CIA led to heavy losses for Cisco, for Sam Country capitalists, hello, hello, everyone, if you are not good, and cause me to be bad, then everyone will break up.

Once their interests are harmed, what national interests, in their eyes, are pure nonsense.

You know, these giant technology companies have a lot of spokespeople in the Sam's Country government. No matter how powerful the intelligence agencies are, don't think about affecting the profits of these giants, otherwise, you will be their enemy, and they will not hesitate to trample you to death and support an obedient intelligence agency.

In a country like Sam's Country, capital is the absolute ruler, and the so-called president, the so-called Senate and the House of Representatives, are nothing more than playthings in the hands of these rich people.

Some time ago, it was Microsoft, and now it's Cisco, and I don't know which company it will be in the future.

Those technology companies that have cooperated with the CIA are at their own risk, and after seeing the bad luck of Microsoft and Cisco, they are also uneasy, and they don't know if the next company to be exposed will be themselves!

The capital market is the most well-informed market, but also the most disorderly market, the profit and avoid the disadvantage is the instinct of capital, has exploded Microsoft and Cisco, the two big thunder of the Sam country technology community, during this time, has become a rumor.

Reflected in the stock market, you can see that the stocks of the original thriving technology companies are falling sharply, and no one knows who the next unlucky ghost is, so the result is that everyone is panicking to sell technology stocks.

This led to many technology stocks falling below the issue price, which changed the world's capital market for a while.

In the trend of a large amount of capital fleeing from technology companies, Zhang Yi took out all the profits obtained from the previous CIH virus and legendary games, and copied the stocks of some large technology companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle.

And, in a desperate gamble, he resisted a large amount of land, real estate, and all the assets he bought in China, such as micro-hardware and software, shopping malls, legendary Internet cafe chains, and legendary online games, and obtained a large number of bank loans, all of which were used to buy shares of technology companies such as Sam's Country.

The size of the pen made Bai Jie and other personnel who knew the inside of the company's assets dumbfounded.

It also made the many banks that provided him with loans can't help but beat the drum in his heart. This kid is completely born after death, in the tide of all capital is vying to flee and Sam Country's science and technology enterprises, he goes against the current, regards himself as a pick-up man, is so determined, and his methods are so violent, people can't help but gasp.

If he fails, he will go from being a billionaire to a billionaire, not only will he have nothing, but he will become a street rat and everyone will shout and beat.

However, no one in the company's middle and senior leaders objected to Zhang Yi's risky capital manipulation.

In fact, this group of subordinates is basically all from the veterans brought out by Ning Dong at the beginning, and they can only believe in Zhang Yi, because the source of support for this self-confidence is that they have seen the small boss with their own eyes, from having nothing, to everyone harvesting every year, and becoming successful people in the eyes of the villagers.

Another reason is that all the company's investments and all business models were created by Zhang Yi alone. Even if he opposes it, it is useless, because legally the company is completely owned by him alone.

He doesn't need to, and doesn't need to, explain his investment behavior to anyone, even for a sane person, some of his investment behavior is like going to the toilet with a lantern and looking for death.