Chapter 306: A Shocking Scandal
One day, a short video suddenly came out on Youtube, titled "Your iPhone is peeping at you", this is a short 10-minute video, which quickly became a hot spot after uploading, the video content is very simple, but on a college campus, a boy turned on his girlfriend's iphone mobile phone camera through remote control, and secretly took a 5-minute clip of life in the girl's dormitory.
Then he transmitted the video to his iPhone through the Internet, and there are no nude and explosive shots in this video clip, only a real restoration of life.
It can be said that the content of the video itself has no attractive elements at all, but the process of shooting this video immediately detonated Youtube, because the whistleblower said that this is the first time in history that the candid shooting of the iPhone can be controlled from a distance without implanting a Trojan horse.
In order to prove the truth of his claims, the whistleblower demonstrates how to achieve this process in a later video. By downloading an IOS software called I-OWN-Secret, and then entering the unique serial number of the iphone you want to control, as long as the iphone is online, I-OWN-Secret can control the other person's phone, turn on the camera to shoot, upload or delete data from the iphone, etc.
In short, you can control any iPhone without having to plant a Trojan on the opponent's machine, as long as you know the serial number unique to the opponent's iPhone and the phone is connected to a 4G network.
The terrible news immediately spread explosively among the fans who owned the iPhone. Everyone frantically clicked on this short video, and then according to the method introduced in the video, they frantically searched for the amazing software called I-OWN-Secret to test it.
The software, released by Tickbear, a well-known hacker of Apple's system, was distributed for free, but Tickbear noted that the software was not written by him, but was obtained from an anonymous person.
In just one day, this software, referred to as I.O.S, became popular all over the Internet, and both the search volume and the number of downloads immediately became the hottest hot spot on the current Internet.
When more and more people downloaded and tested this software and got exactly the same effect as in the video, the fans who owned the iPhone were angry, and they could control the iPhone without Trojan implantation at all, which was definitely a backdoor deliberately left by Apple. This is a blatant invasion of consumer privacy.
So, angry fans took action, and consumers in the U.S. and Europe launched online class action lawsuits, gathering millions of supporters online in a short period of time!
There is no doubt that this backdoor incident has led to the biggest scandal in the history of the communications industry.
When the news reached the capital market, investors were frightened by the scandal, and the wave of sell-off caused Apple's instant stock price to plummet by nearly 25% in an instant! Then the suspension of trading began at Apple's urgent request.
Shu Ya has been waiting for this huge scandal to be announced, when she received the news of Duke uploading the video, she has been staying next to the trading computer, keeping a close eye on Apple's stock price, and when the Apple futures stock price plummeted to more than 20 percent, she began to gradually close the short positions, and when the Apple futures stock price plummeted by 25 percent, Shu Ya's short positions were all closed and fled with profits, completing this shocking hype before Apple's suspension of trading!
After deducting the various expenses in between, the whole hype brought SAL almost $26 billion in net income cash!
When the $15 billion principal quietly returned to their respective accounts, the dozens of investment companies that were originally shells are now fully capitalized entities.
Although Apple's stock price may have room to fall further in the future, market analysts believe that as a result of this scandal, Apple will not only be under pressure to settle a high consumer class action lawsuit, estimated to be tens of billions of dollars.
On the other hand, this scandal will also have a great impact on iPhone sales, and the market share of high-end mobile phones will decline sharply, the most optimistic estimate is to fall from the first place to the third place, and pessimistic analysts believe that Apple is even in danger of losing the high-end market, and it is not surprising that Samsung and the new Nokia Mobile will take over from Apple to compete for the hegemony of global high-end mobile phone sales.
Apple headquarters is in a gloomy panic, engineers are working patches to close the back door, marketing PR is making new plans to try to reverse the current unfavorable situation in public opinion, and lawyers are busiest, preparing for the countless lawsuits that follow.
The top management is meeting endlessly to study how to deal with the current situation. Unfortunately, this backdoor is so hard that there is no room for justification, so the initial plan is to apologize, then urgently roll out the closed patch, and then push out the CTO in senior leadership as a scapegoat.
And the initiator of this big scandal, Duke and Cai Siqiang began to discuss how to divide the spoils!
This huge income from a rather strange way, seeing the final income figures, Cai Siqiang, Dong Feng and others suddenly lost their breath.
"Duke, are you sure you didn't count the wrong zeros?" Dong Feng swallowed a mouthful of water and asked in surprise. He and Zhao Jianwu only knew a little about this matter, and knew that Duke wanted to use the other party's backdoor to do it, but he never dreamed that Duke would play so big.
$26 billion! This is still the net income after deducting expenses, SAL's seven or eight companies combined, and now the net income of a year should not exceed 20 billion US dollars, and in the past few days, a guy has come up with 26 billion US dollars, so it is too easy to make money.
For a moment, Dong Feng felt that everyone was engaged in capital speculation, and it was really too slow and hard to make money in industry.
"That's so much money, but the source of this money is a bit sensitive, and it is too conspicuous to want to transfer it to China, and I believe that there are already people watching where this money goes, so my opinion is to keep them overseas and find the right time to spend them." Duke smiled slightly.
If it weren't for Shu Ya's experience in several successful operations, he wouldn't have thought of using that back door to make a big deal. Now that Apple is in trouble, this windfall is also extremely staggering, although this mode of operation is basically unrepeatable.
On the one hand, he didn't want such a big company as a sniper target, and on the other hand, Duke couldn't think of any other trick that could have such a huge negative impact on a company.
This kind of opportunity is basically as rare as the big prize of the Chinese two-color ball.
For Duke's proposal, everyone raised their hands in favor, but when dividing the specific share, several people had a dispute, Cai Siqiang and others rejected Duke's proposal to divide several people equally, and even Dong Feng felt too embarrassed this time.
"Duke, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't want to earn a penny at all, so from the perspective of distribution according to work, you should take the lion's share, to be honest, the brothers can have today's net worth all thanks to you, and we shouldn't have a penny for this money." Dong Feng said seriously.
"I agree with the madman's words, Duke, although money is a good thing, but now for a few of us, it is just a number, and I believe that we will not worry about money in our lives in this life.
This money is just put there, I always feel that you have a big plan in mind, it needs a lot of money, it is better for you to decide the use of this money, in this regard brothers believe in your character, judgment and vision, to put it a little far, this money will not be spent until we die of old age, it is better to use it to do something meaningful. ”
Zhao Jianwu also said calmly, obviously he didn't approve of taking money from it.
Of course, Duke needs money very much, but he thinks that this money is also earned by using the company's resources, so it is fair that everyone has to have a share, and he can't imagine that the brothers can see it so openly, Duke can't help but be a little moved, because with this money, Duke's huge nuclear power plant construction plan is more certain.
After discussing it for a long time, the matter was finally settled. Duke is now keeping an eye on the progress of the reactor and hopes to turn the solution provided by Bilem into tangible results as soon as possible.