"What the hell is going on?" Zhang Ran asked when he saw Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon's solemn expressions.

After Zhang Ran received a call from Bai Yunfei, he asked the pilot to adjust the route and fly directly to San Bruno. When he arrived in San Bruno, he immediately drove to Fly's headquarters to meet Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon.

Bai Yunfei exhaled and said, "After receiving your call, I drew a few engineers from the company who are familiar with the dark web to track down the order information in Alpha Bay, and we quickly found Wang Sichong's computer. ”

Zhang Ran was stunned, logging on the dark web is generally logged in with the Tor browser, which will not leave traces, but I didn't expect Bai Yunfei to find out so quickly: "You guys are amazing!"

Bai Yunfei explained: "That's right, there is a kid in our company who used to place an order to buy things in Alpha Bay, but he was deceived. Furious, it took him months to find the servers in Alpha Bay, and broke through the defenses to find the scammer's information. With his assistance, we easily got the information we needed in Alpha Bay. If Wang Sichong uses the tor English version to log in, basically there is no way to check, but he uses the Chinese version, which has a backdoor, and he uses a VPN, and the domestic VPN also has a backdoor, which will record your operation on the computer, we easily checked Wang Sichong's computer and found the relevant records. However, in the process of tracking down the Shadow Assassin, we stumbled upon something shocking. ”

Speaking of this, Bai Yunfei tapped on the keyboard: "This is a secret diary written by an employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), in which we found an amazing secret, since 2007, the NSA has implemented a top-secret electronic surveillance program, which includes any customer outside the United States who uses the services of participating companies, or any American citizen who communicates with people abroad." Listen to email, video and voice chats, videos, photos, VoIP chats, file transfers, login notifications, and social network details. ”

Zhang Ran was stunned, this is the Prism Project, could it be Snowden's diary, he looked at it and saw that the diary read: "Yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Klepper told a Senate committee that the NSA did not deliberately collect information on millions of Americans. I read this news in the newspaper and said to my colleagues, can you believe this? But they didn't care about James Klepper's remarks. It's terrible, it's like boiling a frog in warm water, you come into contact with a little evil, a little bit of violation, a little bit of dishonesty, and a little bit of public interest. But over time, this vice will gradually amplify, and when you live in this environment for 10 or 20 years, you will not be surprised. At that point, you'll think everything is normal......"

After reading a few pages of the diary, Zhang Ran was convinced that this was Snowden's diary. Snowden was an idealist who grew up embracing the ideas of liberal democracy, and in his eyes the United States was a beacon of liberal democracy. But after joining the NSA, he found that things were not at all what he imagined, he saw the US military and CIA drones silently blowing up living people into corpses, he saw the NSA mass-monitoring the population, and he saw that the NSA regularly sent raw private communications to Israeli intelligence agencies. All this made his belief greatly impacted and made him extremely painful. So, he wrote all his inner struggles and put them on the dark web to hide.

Snowden believes that the United States is now on the edge of a precipice, and the way to save the United States is to make the matter public and prevent the government from continuing to abuse its power. Coming to power gave him a sense of hope, but soon after, he was disappointed and did not keep his promises during the campaign. So, he began to secretly collect documents from the NSA and hide them on the dark web, while he began to prepare for the Exposure Prism program.

Zhang Ran asked, "Have you found the files he saved on the dark web?"

Bai Yunfei nodded slightly: "I found it." It's even more terrifying than you think, with nine companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple participating in Project Prism, from which N.S.A. intelligence analysts can pull user data directly and track users' every move through information such as audio, video, email, files and connection logs. Fly did not participate in this program because we ourselves are the targets of surveillance, especially you and me, because we are Chinese. ”

For the development of Fly, Bai Yunfei became an American citizen, but in the eyes of the US government, he is still a suspicious object and is not trusted. He exhaled and said, "The NSA has a special team to analyze our phone calls and emails, which is comparable to the national leaders they monitor." You say, should we cry or laugh!"

Zhang Ran was not surprised that the U.S. government was monitoring him. After all, he has so much investment in the United States, has such a big influence, and he is not an American, and the US government will definitely take precautions. It's just that I didn't expect Bai Yunfei to become an American citizen, and he is still the key monitoring target of the US government. However, if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising that joining the American nationality does not mean that the ass is sitting on the side of the United States, and Fly's influence is so great, the U.S. government must find out whether the ass of the controller of Fly is sitting on the side of the United States.

Zhang Ran thought about it, and he didn't have much leverage for the U.S. government to arrest, so he said, "Did they monitor something?"

Bai Yunfei bit and said: "You are much better than me, you are in China, and the communication is a Chinese telecom operator." Most of the backbone networks of Chinese telecom companies use Huawei, unlike the United States and Europe, which use Cisco, which has a backdoor and can continuously send massive amounts of information to the NSA. However, if you make international calls or satellite calls, you won't be able to escape their surveillance, and the NSA has hacked into China's major telecommunications companies, and they have intercepted a lot of your call logs and text messages. Bai Yunfei clicked on a document with the mouse and said, "Look at it yourself!"

What appeared on the computer monitor was an analysis report from the NSA, which was an analysis of Zhang Ran, including Zhang Ran's family and social relations, and that Zhang Ran had stayed in the United States for many years and had a good impression of the United States, but he was a nationalist at heart, and if there was a conflict between China and the United States, he would definitely stand firmly on China's side.

The United States is not only monitoring Zhang Ran, but the entire peak of the century is the object of their surveillance. According to the documents, in 2010, the N.S.A. arranged a special team for the summit of the century and launched an operation code-named "Shoot the Giants." The entire operation was carried out with the involvement of the White House Intelligence Coordinator, the CIA and the FBI. The task force successfully infiltrated the servers of Century Summit's headquarters in Beiping, and copied more than 2,500 customer materials and internal training documents used by engineers, including emails from Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide, as well as information about Century Summit's shareholders.

These documents made Zhang Ran quickly creepy, but he didn't expect the US government to monitor himself and the peak of the century to such an extent, and couldn't help but say: "It's terrible, it's really terrible!"

Bai Yunfei smiled bitterly and said: "You are much better than me, among the girlfriends I have dated, there are female agents sent by the government, that is terrifying!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, no wonder Bai Yunfei's face was so ugly, the person sleeping next to him turned out to be an agent, if the U.S. government really wanted to do anything to Bai Yunfei, he would have become a corpse a long time ago. Zhang Ran originally wanted to joke and ask Bai Yunfei how the sleeping female agent felt, but now was not the time to joke, so he said, "What do you think and what are you going to do?"

Bai Yunfei was very annoyed by the NSA's monitoring of him, and said directly: "We contacted the owner of the documents, exposed all the documents through Fly, and made the government pay for their actions." ”

Mike Solomon is calmer: "The Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties explicitly prohibit such mass surveillance, and the Expose Prism program is right. However, the owner of the document was originally going to expose it, and there is no need for us to get involved in it, so it is better to wait and see what happens. ”

Zhang Ran thought for a while and said slowly: "It's impossible not to get involved in this matter, once the Prism Project is exposed, companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple will be affected, and Fly will not participate in the Prism Project and will be the biggest beneficiary of the whole incident." According to the usual logic of conspiracy theories, whoever benefits the most will also be the most suspicious, and we will definitely become the object of suspicion for some. Anyway, it will be suspected, and it is better to fight for more benefits. My view is that you should use these files for small gestures, but don't get deeply involved. ”

Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon frowned when they heard this.

Zhang Ran didn't care about their faces, and continued: "In Snowden's own opinion, he is a patriot and will not divulge too many secrets, nor will he reveal the specific content of Microsoft, Google and other companies' participation in the Prism Project. When the time comes, Google will definitely deny it, saying that we are not involved. With no evidence, Google has had a limited impact. When Google denied it, we sent the evidence to Assange for WikiLeaks to be exposed. We sent the files to Assange via the dark web, and it shouldn't leave a trace. ”

Mike Solomon thought about it and felt that Zhang Ran's words made sense: "I think this is the best." ”

Bai Yunfei was a little unwilling, if all the documents were exposed, it would definitely make the US government disgraced, but he also understood that Zhang Ran's words were right, and finally reason prevailed over anger: "You are right, I am too emotional." Let's discuss how to do it!"

In the next three months, Zhang Ran basically spent time at home with his wife. However, in addition to accompanying his wife, he was also secretly arranging. The exposure of Prism Gate will change the focus of the world's attention on cybersecurity, people will begin to re-examine the issue of cybersecurity, and governments will take different measures to enhance their cybersecurity capabilities.

In the past, China has adopted a system of physical isolation of internal networks, which the government considers to be very secure. The prism gate will tear off all the fig leaf, making the country realize that China's cyber security is like a glass man, which looks gorgeous but is actually fragile. After the exposure of Prism Gate in the last life, domestic operators have replaced Cisco's equipment, and Apple and other equipment have also been excluded from the government's purchasing list.

What Zhang Ran wants to do is to burn the fire to Google and squeeze Android out of China on the basis of Prism Gate. In the last life, after the exposure of Prism Gate, the security of the Android system was questioned, but because there was no system in China that could replace Android, Android could only be allowed to continue to dominate the Chinese mobile phone market. Now the situation is different, and the Phoenix system in the hands of Century Peak can completely replace Android.

On June 5, the British "Guardian" newspaper published a report that the NSA has a secret project codenamed Prism, which requires telecommunications giant Verizon to hand over the call records of millions of users every day. On the 6th, the Washington Post revealed that in the past six years, the NSA and the FBI have monitored secret information such as emails, chat records, videos, and photos of American citizens by accessing the servers of nine major Internet giants such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo.

As soon as the two reports came out, global public opinion was in an uproar, and Prism Gate officially broke out.