After thinking about it, Alice felt that it would be better to answer like this: "Regarding power armor, the advice I can give is that before the country's basic industry reaches the nanometer level, this product does not need to be thought about. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As she spoke, she looked at her watch again and said, "So in order to save time, let's talk about this later, let's talk about other ideas?" ”

Duties like chief designer or technical advisor could not have been more convenient for Alice, and these people at the Pentagon, seeing their achievements in programming and brilliant scientific imagination, certainly don't let the meeting be limited to paper. I'm a businessman after all, and it's better not to continue to talk to politicians.

"There are a lot of other ideas, of course."

Weinberg continued to flip through the materials in his hand and said: "As far as we know, you ordered a large number of products from General Dynamics during the filming of Alien II. The alien terrain vehicle and armored vehicle used in the movie, and even the landing aircraft, were all made directly by you handing over the design drawings to them, right? ”

"That's right, those drawings were all designed by me, but they were only designed as movie props, and it is not easy to transform them into full-fledged military equipment."

A little bit to break the purpose of each other's understanding, Alice turned to smile and said: "For example, the power armor we just talked about, its real thickness is only one millimeter, and it is difficult to block even a five-millimeter bullet from a submachine gun." However, if you really want to increase the thickness, or use high-strength materials on the premise of retaining the thickness, the cost and technical content will naturally go up. ”

An army general spoke at the right time: "That's right, but your armor is not just a movie prop, but a costly finished equipment." So I have a question, how do you design the joints? ”

This question can be said to be of interest to every technical nerd viewer who has carefully watched "Alien II", and some newspaper comments have been spoken. From the details of the Marines' costumes in the movie, everyone can clearly see that this set of armor is not just a piece of steel on the jacket of the leather jacket, but a real metal connector. So the question is, how do designers make the body movement so dexterous?

"The drawings were drawn by me, and the finished product was made by a mechanical designer in our crew, Sextant Fumihiko."

"He's a former General Dynamics employee who went to Caltech and MIT, and he's very technical," Alice said honestly. ”

After this answer, everyone did not immediately ask another question, but digested and absorbed it first. Alice wasn't in a hurry, she looked at her watch, it was still early before dinner.

After a moment of silence, Defense Minister Weinberg laughed: "You designed it again." ”

This sentence is the highlight.

The conference room was once again dominated by relaxed laughter, and just then, the door of the conference room suddenly opened, and a handsome middle-aged man hurriedly walked into the room: "Damn, didn't anyone tell me Alice has arrived?" ”

"Oh, Director Fryer."

Alice stood up and shook his hand, wasn't this the same NSA chief Dominique Flair with whom she had just had a night chat last night?

"Oh, Alice, I'm sorry, I was busy with other work just now."

Fryer happily shook Alice's hand, then looked at the full house: "What's the topic?" Haven't Clark and Lockheed arrived yet? ”

Alice's eyebrows furrowed, and she immediately swept around.

Of the two men mentioned by Flair, the latter is undoubtedly Oren Lockheed, the future CEO of the company, the rich second generation of the company, who is increasingly in control of real power in the company. As for the previous Clark, since he was tied by Flair and Lockheed, it was obviously the then CEO of General Dynamics, William Clark.

Well, everyone here looked a little embarrassed.

So, Dominique Flair was deliberately late?

"Oh, yes, yes, I almost forgot."

As if suddenly realized, Defense Secretary Weinberg patted his head: "The two of them are still in the hotel, I'll take a look......"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the hotel just had a power outage, and none of us could get a call."

It's like a stage play, one character after another, and before Weinberg could finish speaking, a handsome young man strode into the room, who was not Oren Lockheed?

"Ah, Oron."

Alice shook hands with him in surprise and said, "So you're here too, and ...... Hello, Mr. Clark. ”

He was followed by a mature middle-aged man with a thick black beard on his upper lip. After walking into the conference room, he first glanced at the full room of soldiers, and then nodded to Alice and said, "Meet again, Miss Wang, I have already seen your "Alien II", it is indeed a very good movie." ”

Facing this middle-aged man, Alice also had a very stable image, shook hands with him and said: "Without the support of General Dynamics, I wouldn't have been able to show so many excellent equipment in the movie, and I want to thank you very much." ”

It seems that the situation is somewhat clear.

In fact, when Alice saw that it was Weinberg who was waiting for her in the conference room, instead of Fryer, who had been chatting with her last night, she was already a little muttered.

Then, at this point, first Flair suddenly broke in on the grounds that he was busy with work, and then the two people who walked into the house with a lame interface such as "the hotel had a power outage and did not receive a call......

Feelings, is this a rivalry within the military personnel?

Undoubtedly, at this moment, the focus of the conversation in the room is on Alice. Facing these two arms dealers who had gathered here, and a room full of Pentagon military personnel, she pretended to sigh helplessly: "Okay, you adults, don't you just want me to sell coolies for you?" ”

In a word, when the fifteen-year-old girl spoke easily, everyone suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

But then, she shrugged her shoulders very easily and said, "But it doesn't matter, those who can work harder, as long as you can provide enough payment, I don't mind developing some high-end equipment for the military." Say, Minister Weinberg, and Minister Fryer, if you have anything that I need to design, let them both develop, and explain everything. ”

"Haha, Alice is really refreshing."

The moment of silence seemed to be as long as 10,000 years, and then it was interrupted by Flair's smile, he found a random chair, opened his mouth and said, "I just urged last night, Alice, how is the firewall being developed?" We're all in a hurry! ”

With his mouth, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became active again, and many military generals did not speak again, and Defense Minister Weinberg interjected with a dry cough: "That's right, yesterday the hacker spent half a day of work by the security department, and finally the address was thrown to Australia." Fortunately, he only had time to wander around the outer network, otherwise we would have suffered huge losses. ”

Alice learned about the situation last night, and she didn't bother to pay attention to this past tense: "It's time to test the physical hardware." From November last year to now, we've had five generations of devices built by end-of-line manufacturers, with an average performance improvement of 30 percent per update. If you're in a hurry, I'll speed up and deliver the finished product to you in April. ”

Unsurprisingly, both Weinberg and Fryer smacked their lips.

The technology and products of "Internet security protocols and related hardware" are completely different from the military industry they have always been familiar with, and when they heard that five generations have been updated in a few months, Weinberg really couldn't help but wonder: "Isn't the first generation usable?" Do you have to experiment again and again? How much can they differ from each other? ”

"On the one hand, it's software. This security protocol is like a law, we can make a lot of regulations about how data is transmitted, but there will definitely be a lot of blank areas that are not taken into account, just like legal loopholes, which are always exploited by clever criminals. The biggest amount of work we did when developing firewalls was the continuous compilation and re-compilation of security protocols. ”

Seeing Weinberg's sudden realization, Flair's thoughtful and approving look, Alice shrugged her shoulders and said, "Actually, the main workload is here, you know, every time the protocol is renovated, the software volume will increase a lot." When our current hard disks have not yet reached the point where GB is used as a regular unit, the processor speed is the same, and as soon as the software changes, the hardware part must also be redesigned. ”

After all that, Weinberg, even as a layman, understands the situation. He touched his chin thoughtfully: "In other words, every renovation will make the firewall perform better......"

“…… Alice, then I now ask two questions, first, can the current fifth-generation firewall block the hacker you encountered last time? Second, if we wait until June to order your 6th and 7th generation products, will the performance be even better? ”

"I'll answer the second question first, yes."

Let's give an affirmative answer first, because for the previous question, Alice is also very big: "Ordinary invasion is definitely fine, but for those masters, I can't guarantee you absolutely." After all, no matter how many times I update it, it is still a product that has not really experienced real combat, and even during the development period, our Cisco programmers will make simulated attack behaviors, but after all, the limitations are too great. ”

Weinberg is not reluctant, for the current Pentagon, if there is a firewall, it is a hundred times safer than living in a bare wooden house. (To be continued.) )