Hong Kong.

After hanging up the phone, the person who was talking to Julian Robertson slowly raised his head, revealing a face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

If Maxim had been here, he would have been surprised to find that this person was none other than his former boss, Jim. Watson.

Since making a fortune in Japan, Jim. Watson began his investment career with great importance, and the result was a mess, arriving in Hong Kong a year ago, taking advantage of the fame of the year to try to make a comeback, only to lose a lot of money in the Thai baht. At that time, he even had the heart to die, who would have thought that the end of the mountain and the water would let him catch up with the Tiger Fund by chance and become a representative of the Hong Kong office, which made him nervous again.

Speaking of Jim. Watson's investment skills are not weak, but he is a little unlucky, and he has bet on the wrong treasure several times when the market has collapsed, resulting in the loss of the net worth accumulated before. Tiger Fund naturally took a fancy to his previous performance in shorting Japan, which made him a pawn in Hong Kong to find out the news, and to put it bluntly, he was a "supernumerary".

Don't underestimate this kind of "supernumerary personnel", many times when it is inconvenient for the official personnel of the Tiger Fund to come forward, these people play a huge role, as is the case now, Jim. Watson took on this responsibility.

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"It's this ghost guy (foreigner), he asked me to copy this thing to this person's computer, and by the way, install a bugging device in his office." In Land Rover's large office, Zhong Shi sat on the boss's chair with Erlang on his legs. The Land Rover, on the other hand, stood respectfully to the side, pointing to something in his hand and whispering.

If the employees of the security company appeared here at this time, they would definitely be surprised to find that the general manager, who was as majestic and inviolable as a tiger in their eyes, and who was not even smiling at all, had turned into a docile cat at this time, and even curryed favor with the small man in front of him in a low voice, this scene would definitely make them fall through their glasses, and more seriously, it might cause people to go insane.

Zhong Shi clicked on the surveillance screen with the mouse, made sure that he didn't know this person, and shook his head. I looked at the floppy disk on the desktop again. Say, "That's all? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, right? ”

"That's not the point!" Land Rover waved his hand, took out a photo, and said, "The point is on this person." We've checked it. This man's name is Rodney. Jones. is an economist. Zhong Sheng, guess which company he works for? ”

"Rodney. Jones? Zhong Shi had a contemplative expression on his face, and after repeating it for a long time. slapped his thigh suddenly, and suddenly realized, "It turned out to be him!" In this way, this matter does have something to do with our industry. Yes, Land Rover, you're doing a good job this time! ”

Rodney. Jones, an economist at the Quantum Fund in Hong Kong, is their chief economist for Asia, responsible for the study of the economies of many East Asian countries, including China and Japan. While Quantum Funds has little interest in emerging markets, it will not give up on them easily.

And Jean Rodney. Jones's claim to fame was not his research, and in fact his research was not known to the outside world, but rather the fact that he published an article on the day of the depreciation of the baht that attracted the attention of the entire market. In the article, "Monetary Tightening: What Keynes Had to Say About Thailand," he sharply takes aim at the Thai government at the time, blaming the nasty economic policies of the country's turbulent currency market swings. The result was very unfortunate, the Thai baht was devalued on the same day, and he and the Quantum Fund, Soros, etc. were thrown to the forefront at once, and even the leaders of some Southeast Asian countries privately said that this was a naked provocation. In the following period, the global media, including the Hong Kong media, focused on the Quantum Fund, and the media in Southeast Asian countries criticized Soros for several months, and finally Soros was forced to make a public appearance in Hong Kong in September and give a public speech as a special guest, which can be regarded as a positive response to the impact of this incident.

Although it is very passive in public opinion, the quantum fund is unanimous in its response to Rodney. Jones's work is full of praise, and if it weren't for his early research and judgment, maybe Soros and his quantum fund would have missed the golden opportunity to depreciate the baht.

And now, there are people who want to do Rodney. Jones used his tricks, and Zhong Shi was naturally surprised by this, and his mind turned to become interested in the contents of the floppy disk in his hand. After thinking about it, he dialed the phone number of the IT department of Tianyu Fund and said, "Mike, I have something here, you can come and take a look." The address is the 33rd floor on the left side of the Lippo Center in Central, Shi Hu is safe, just come in and find the general manager's office. Also, bring your own computer. ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhong Shi thought about it again and pointed to Jim on the surveillance screen. Watson said, "Brother Lu, where is this person now?" Any clues? ”

"Hmm!" Land Rover nodded and said, "Since I know the identity of this ghost guy, I have sent someone to keep an eye on the whereabouts of this ghost guy, it is said that this guy has booked a ticket for tomorrow and will fly directly to Tokyo, I'm afraid he is going to run away." ”

Speaking of this, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said: "This guy is very relieved of us, just to explain such a task, and he is ready to leave without even planning to verify it in the future." You know, he paid a full 100,000 U.S. dollar for this business, and it has been paid to our accounts in advance. ”

Zhong Shi nodded noncommittally, and looked at the eavesdropping device they had given him, a device the size of a button, which could be attached to the bottom of the table, placed in a vase, or even glued to the mural, and would never be visible without looking closely.

Seeing Zhong Shi's eyes staring at the bugging, Land Rover explained: "This bugging device is the latest technology product, it is said that the receiving range can reach 1500 meters, ultra-high frequency sound wave transmission, the signal is difficult to be eavesdropped, I believe that this time the other party is a blood cost." ”

"Really?" Zhong Shi picked up such a button-sized thing and looked at it over and over for a long time. In the end, he didn't find anything mysterious in it, but after putting it down, he remembered something and asked, "Since it's a bugging device, there should be relevant personnel to receive it, right?" Do you have a clue about this? ”

Land Rover smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "Zhong Sheng, are you too anxious?" You know, none of these things have been installed yet. After installation, depending on the environment where the target is located, I don't know how many other locations can be received within 1500 meters, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to find out at all for a while. ”

Between the two talking. Mike. Taylor also rushed over. He was a skinny guy with thick glasses and a staggering walk, fearing that a gust of wind could blow him down.

I pushed the glasses on the bridge of my nose. Mike directly ignored the Land Rover in the office. He just nodded at Zhong Shi. Then he looked at the floppy disk on the desktop and said, "Is this what it is?" After speaking, without waiting for Zhong Shi to answer, he untied the backpack behind him by himself. Pull out a thick notebook.

Zhong Shi picked up the floppy disk, and looked at Mike with a grim face. Taylor said, "Mike, this is not a trivial matter, it could be a business of tens of millions of dollars. You have to be careful, if you can't solve it, at least don't break the program inside, otherwise it will be a big problem! ”

Mike lowered his head, looked at Zhong Shi through his glasses, looked disdainful, and said, "Boss, although I admire your achievements in the economy, but in terms of computer programs, I, Taylor, are the real genius." Don't worry, leave it to me! After speaking, without waiting for Zhong Shi to agree, he snatched the floppy disk in his hand, stuffed it directly into the laptop, and then crackled his hands on the keyboard like wheels.

Looking at the stunned Land Rover, Zhong Shi could only shake his head with a wry smile and said: "This is my employee, who is responsible for the security of the IT department, don't look at him as weak, in fact, he is definitely a computer genius." Many of the programs in the fund, including the firewall, were set up by him, and they have never been breached. ”

"Boss, you're not bad! A lot of the ideas you provided me, and I was blown away by how the program could be designed. If I'm the king of the programming world, you're the queen. "Mike over here. Taylor used his hands and feet together, and his ears were not idle, and he immediately echoed after hearing Zhong Shi's words.

Land Rover looked at Zhong Shi, and then at Mike, who was busy working non-stop, shook his head helplessly, and said weakly: "What are you talking about, I don't understand a word!" ”

It's not that Land Rover can't understand English, he can understand some English and Cantonese after coming to Hong Kong for so long, but he really can't understand a word of the terms spoken by Zhong Shi and Mike, and he has very little contact with computers.

Mike. Taylor is the programmer in charge of the backstage of Da Mo, in the 87 stock market crash, Da Mo suffered heavy losses, his department head was angry with him, simply demoted him to Hong Kong. If it weren't for the fact that the salary is abundant, Mike. Taylor had already resigned, and who wouldn't have thought that after arriving in Hong Kong, he was unexpectedly discovered by Zhong Shi, and it took a lot of effort to dig into the Tianyu Fund and become the chief technical officer of the IT department.

Since Land Rover couldn't understand the terminology, Zhong Shi simply stopped talking, and the two stared at Mike on the side. Taylor was busy. Half an hour later, Mike. Taylor stopped at this time, pointed to the lines of code on the screen and said: "This is a small program developed based on UNIX, which captures the information sent by the other party through the vulnerability of the communication protocol, and sets up a program on the IP port to compress the data packet into ...... again."

"Stop!" With a wave of his hand, Zhong Shi stopped Mike. Taylor gushed endlessly, and asked bluntly, "What does this do, you just say what effect it will have if it is infected on the computer, and the rest is just skipped." ”

Mike. Taylor looked at Zhong Shi in some surprise, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly for a long time, and then he said, "Boss, this is a worm." It is designed to intercept infected computer e-mails, which means that if an infected computer sends an e-mail, it will send another email to a different IP address. And in addition to this, it can also intercept the other party's email, that is, although the email has been sent here, as long as it is through this little thing, it can completely make the recipient unable to receive the email, and he has no knowledge. ”

"That's right!" Zhong Shi nodded, "Since UNIX has this vulnerability, will there be related problems in our system?" He reacted quickly and immediately thought that the internal system of Tianyu Fund was also built on the UNIX platform.

"You can rest assured of this." Mike after getting it. Taylor's expression was very relaxed, and he made a big smirk, "Since I know this loophole, I can naturally plug it." But the other party is really powerful, such a loophole can be found, and it seems that the level is second only to me! After saying that, he sighed very cooperatively.

Although Windows has been released and has caused a global sensation because of the excellent Windows system, because of its too many vulnerabilities and the source code is not public, most secrecy-conscious organizations are still willing to use open source UNIX or linux systems, which is why they need IT personnel internally.

Seeing the smug Mike. Taylor, Zhong Shi was speechless for a while, and it took a full five minutes before he said, "Since you can detect the vulnerability in it, can you add something to it so that the other party's email can also be sent to our computer?" ”

"It's as easy as adding a code to the other person's program, sending it to my broiler (puppet computer), and then going around the global network and it's on my computer. Rest assured, I will never be able to find out my IP address, and besides, with my level, the other party will never find out that I have been passive in the program. "Mike. As soon as Taylor whistled, he immediately knocked on the keyboard with both hands, and after two minutes of crackling, he pressed the button, popped out the floppy disk, handed it to Zhong Shi, and said proudly, "That's it!" ”

Zhong Shi nodded, handed the floppy disk to Land Rover, and ordered with a solemn face: "Do it according to the customer's requirements." Also, keep an eye on the person's movements. If he returns to Hong Kong, let me know immediately! ”

Touching his chin, Zhong Shi thought about it again and said, "Bring someone to my place tomorrow and search me inside and out to see if anyone has installed a bug or something there." Hey, shopping malls are like battlefields, and you have to guard against any means. ”

Land Rover's face was expressionless, but the corners of his mouth twitched violently. (To be continued......)

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