Chen Yuan is an employee at Apple's China branch, where he is responsible for reviewing vulnerabilities in the iOS operating system.

In Chen Yuan's opinion, the above really arranged an idle job for himself.

Yes, Apple, as the world's leading consumer electronics giant, not only has strong hardware design capabilities, but also is definitely the best in software development.

The iOS system is undoubtedly the best performance of Apple's software development capabilities, although it was born almost at the same time as Google's Android system, but in terms of performance and security, the iOS system almost completely exploded the Android system, becoming the world's most popular mobile operating system.

Of course, no product is perfect, Chen Yuan also knows that there are indeed vulnerabilities in the iOS system, so in addition to his own company has a special team responsible for detecting vulnerabilities in the iOS system, Apple is also like 'Facebook', 'Google' and other foreign Internet giants, and has also launched its own vulnerability reporting reward for the public - 'White Knight Plan'.

It's just that the strength of Chinese folk technology enthusiasts in vulnerability detection is not small compared with Europe and the United States.

Since 2015, when the 'White Knight Project' was also implemented in China, there have been only forty or fifty iOS system vulnerabilities reported and discovered by China, and most of them are just some bizarre small vulnerabilities that do not affect the stability of the system.

In contrast, there were seven or eight high-risk vulnerabilities reported abroad last year alone.

Therefore, Chen Yuan's work is no different from eating idle meals, except for being busy for a while when the department in charge of complaints turns over the vulnerability report email, he is still in a daze and playing some small games more often.

No, Chen Yuan clicked on Xiangqi for the third time today, and he had the heart to try the chess game he had just found on the Internet.

Although the company's articles of association stipulate that it is strictly forbidden to play games during working hours, simple games such as cards and chess that come with the computer are generally turned a blind eye even if the supervisor sees it when he is not busy.

"I mean, you're all bored, aren't you? Playing chess with the computer every day, aren't you tired? ”

Also in a daze on the side is another employee in charge of iOS system vulnerability reporting and review at Apple's China branch, named Fu Chun.

Because the company often does not receive a single vulnerability report in ten days and half a month, the Chinese branch only arranged two auditors for them.

Now it seems that there are actually two more people!

Chen Yuan glanced at him, "It's better than you stealing the movie, beware of being caught again and being scolded?" ”

Fu Chun smiled: "The 100 megabit optical fiber in the office is much stronger than the four megabytes in my house, anyway, if I am idle, I am idle, it is better to let me play a few ultra-high definition movies, and I can go back to watch them at night!" ”

Chen Yuan rolled his eyes, but he played a small game that came with the system, and he couldn't use the Internet at all, so he just didn't see it, who made the two of them difficult brothers, and their work was so boring every day.

As soon as he clicked on the chessboard, because it was the red side, Chen Yuan was about to take the first step and try how to amaze the so-called Ming Dynasty remnants he had newly seen.

Suddenly, he saw a work processing prompt pop up in the background maintenance software on the right side of his computer.

Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that it was a vulnerability report email forwarded by the complaint department.

Suddenly came to the spirit, "Yo, it seems that there is a loophole report, you or I will review it?" ”

"You can take a look first, and make sure it's really a vulnerability report first."

Fu Chun also saw it, but his computer was secretly playing a movie, so he said without looking back.

Chen Yuan nodded, and directly closed the chess game that had not been around for a long time, he immediately clicked on the vulnerability report email and hurriedly scanned it first, Chen Yuan frowned, "I found 17 vulnerabilities in the iOS system, and there are more in my hand, I really dare to say it!" ”

"Poof!"

Fu Chun immediately burst out laughing when he heard this, and couldn't help but get up and lean over and jokingly echoed: "Really? Come on, let me see who is so capable......"

He hadn't even seen the whistleblower's information, and Chen Yuan, who was fast, had already downloaded the folder attached to the email and clicked on it.

Fu Chun then leaned his head closer, and looked at a detailed vulnerability analysis he clicked with Chen Yuan, and his expression changed slightly.

"Use the search function to see the deleted text messages...... Well, this vulnerability does exist ......"

Apple has its own system vulnerability detection team, but when it finds some vulnerabilities in the new version, unless it has been feedback, it chooses to be silent and quietly fix it in the next version, after all, Apple is not stupid enough to slap itself in the face.

However, for convenience, Apple will also regularly update some newly discovered vulnerabilities internally to the technicians who are responsible for this area, so that its own technical team can maintain them.

Unfortunately, Fu Chun happened to remember such a newly identified loophole at the US headquarters.

Chen Yuan nodded and answered, he did know that there was such a vulnerability that had been discovered.

The two of them became serious at the moment, and read them word by word, one by one, and their brows furrowed together.

"There are five vulnerabilities that have been detected by the headquarters, and these reports are correct. As for the rest, although it is uncertain, by analogy, the probability of being correct is still very high......"

After Chen Yuan finished speaking, he bent down and took out a few Apple mobile phones specially used for testing and put them on the table from the drawer under the desk.

There was no need for him to give him more instructions, Fu Chun also came over to help after turning off his computer.

The two of them were busy checking for a while, and after finally confirming that all these vulnerabilities were true, Chen Yuan was in a trance for a moment, and saw that he immediately took out a USB drive from the drawer, sorted out the report and the test records, and copied them into the USB drive.

After finishing, he got up and said to Fu Chun: "I'll go to the copy room to print the documents, Fu Chun, you go and call the supervisor first." ”

Fu Chun nodded with a serious face, he was reported so many loopholes at once, and all of them were proved to be true.

I'm afraid that their supervisor is here, and he has to break out in a cold sweat and continue to report the situation to the top.

If the other party really has more iOS system vulnerabilities in their hands, then it may not only be the Chinese branch that will send an executive to contact the other party in person, but maybe the head office may also send someone from the United States to take charge of the matter personally.

However, none of this has anything to do with the two of them.

"When did China produce such a great technologist?"

Before going out, Fu Chun couldn't help but glance back at the information of the whistleblower left in the report document on the computer screen.

"Studio Cybertron? Testing institutions? ”

With some doubts, Fu Chun shook his head and followed Chen Yuan out of the office and walked towards the director's office.

ps：

1. I opened a small black room, and I couldn't get out in the afternoon.

2. The real-world chapter will end in these two days.