The black technology empire started with a debt of one billion

Chapter 389 404: Refers to a deer as a horse

The backdoor discovered by Penguin this time is called "Spectre". Intel, ARM, AMD, Apple, IBM, Qualcomm, Nvidia, etc. have all admitted that their processors are at risk of being attacked.

But none of the companies offered to recall the faulty chips.

All major manufacturers have stated that they will launch corresponding patches on their official websites, and people only need to download patches online to fix these bugs.

The patching solution they used is the patching solution currently being promoted by China.

Although the public's trust in major brand chips has dropped to zero, they have no solution because they have no other choice except these manufacturers unless they no longer buy electronic products.

Otherwise, you can only swallow your anger and continue to buy their products.

But as I said just now, the market also responded accordingly. The semiconductor sector plummeted by 12%, and each stock fell by about 15% on average.

Some lawsuits will not miss this opportunity to make money.

A large number of lawyers appeared on Twitter and Facebook inviting people to join the class action lawsuit.

There are two main reasons why the lawsuit encourages consumers to sue Intel. One is that the products have potential safety hazards but are not recalled after a while, and the other is that "patching" will affect the performance of their computers.

Patches to the CPU cores will affect all OS work, most software runs will experience "single-digit dips" of under 10%, typical performance dips are 5%, and worst-case performance dips are in networking functions The range is 30%.

In other words, solving the security "vulnerability door" through "patching" will cause the performance of computing equipment to drop by 5% to 30%.

I have to say that these prosecutors are very efficient in their work, and they found the litigation point in just a short time.

Nowadays, major semiconductor companies now hate Penguin.

Tencent Building on the north side of Shennan Avenue, North District, Nanshan District High-tech Park, Shenzhen City.

Because of Penguin's exposure of the back door of the chip, Xiao Ma received a call from Bob Van Dyke. If the other party asked him to find the loophole again, he should not announce it to the public. He should first tell the major manufacturers about the matter in private.

Because of the reason they announced the BUG this time, Wall Street suffered heavy losses.

For this reason, Xiao Ma had to rush from home to the company and summon the person in charge of this matter to his office.

Ren Yuxin, Yuan Xiaosheng, Deng Jiezhao and security department Fan Zhihang were called to the office by him.

"Next time, if there is a bug in the chip again, please don't make an announcement in other companies. We can handle this matter internally. Do you know how many people called me tonight?

Because of this incident, the entire semiconductor industry in Beacon Country has plummeted, and now semiconductor companies throughout Europe hate us to death. "Xiao Ma flicked the cigarette ash and said very depressed.

At first, he didn't care much about this matter. Europe put him under great pressure, so he had to deal with this matter himself.

"Mr. Ma, this matter is related to all computer information security issues. If we don't announce this matter to the public after learning about it, our image will fall to the bottom." Deng Jiezhao said.

If such a thing was reported maliciously, it might even arouse the disgust of the superiors. By then, Penguin would basically no longer have to hang out in China.

Deng Jiezhao almost told Xiao Ma that you don't forget who you are.

As the saying goes, a man can do something and not do something.

"You don't need to take care of this matter. You just need to report it. I will decide how to deal with it. If you don't understand, just leave Penguin." Xiao Ma said with a gloomy face.

"I resign." Deng Jiezhao took off his name badge and put it on the head of the table, then left.

Brother Xiao Ma knows that his family is rooted in Hongmiao, and there are some things that he can't get over, so he can only choose to leave Penguin, but all this is expected by Brother Xiao Ma.

Brother Xiao Ma doesn't know if such a thing will happen in the future.

But no matter what happened, Penguin couldn't break the news. It was the best choice for Deng Jiezhao to leave Penguin.

Sometimes employees with a strong sense of justice are not a good thing for him.

But it was also very helpless for him.

Seeing Deng Jizhao packing up his things, Wang Yusheng stepped forward and asked, "Brother Deng, what's going on with you?"

"I resigned." Deng Jiezhao said while packing his things.

"What happened, is it because of the back door?" Wang Yusheng asked suspiciously.

"Just do your job well, and don't worry about other things." Deng Jiezhao said.

Wang Yusheng saw that Deng Jiezhao was unwilling to say more, so he didn't ask further, but he had his own guess in his mind.

"I know." Wang Yusheng sighed.

It’s 10:30 in a blink of an eye.

Because of Deng Jiezhao's resignation, matters in the technical department could only be supervised by Ren Yuxin personally.

"Mr. Ren, the bug in Specter has been fixed. Can the game be relaunched?" Wang Yusheng came to Ren Yuxin's office and asked.

"Go online." Ren Yuxin nodded.

Inside a rental house in Tianfu.

Wang Shuming moved the bricks for less than an hour in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, the Penguin side was immediately under maintenance. As a night owl, he could only choose to watch movies to pass the time.

"The game has been launched again. Everyone, hurry up and move online. Game plug-ins will be updated as soon as possible."

When Wang Shuming saw the excitement sent by the owner of the brick-moving group, he immediately shut down the browser.

Because the patch was very small, it was updated in less than 3 minutes. Wang Shuming opened the plug-in again, and the plug-in was updated again as the group leader said.

Tencent Building on the north side of Shennan Avenue, North District, Nanshan District High-tech Park, Shenzhen City.

Penguin Games Technology Department.

In order to better anti-cheat, the technical department mingled in various brick-moving groups, and they knew about the update of the cheat at the first time.

"Have you traced the IP used by the plug-in to transmit data?" Fan Zhihang asked.

Before, they thought that the update would solve the problem of the cheat, so they did not track the data of the cheat, but they did not expect the cheat to be updated again.

So they want to solve this problem by solving the problem of the person who invented the cheat.

(⊙o⊙)...

The comrade in charge of tracking the data was stunned when he saw the tracked IP.

"Jiang Guangqing asked you if you heard what he said?" Fan Zhihang asked.

"It's been traced, it's this IP." Jiang Guangqing didn't know what to say.

He did not expect that the IP eventually traced turned out to be the IP of a European server.

"What's going on?" Fan Zhihang asked with a frown.

"Boss, I traced that the IP is the IP of Fruit's European server." Jiang Guangqing said speechlessly.

"Huh?" Fan Zhihang felt a little unbelievable.

This matter must not be done by the fruit company, then the fruit server has been hacked, and the author of the cheat is regarded as a chicken.

"Xu Tianyi, you contact Fruit to report this to them, and the others will work with me to resolve the plug-in issue." Fan Zhihang said helplessly.

At this time, everyone had a certain suspicion in their minds that the person who made the plug-in was a peerless master.

It's twelve o'clock in a blink of an eye.

Fan Zhihang finally found the operation of the plug-in, this time the plug-in also used the CPU backdoor vulnerability, this time the backdoor vulnerability is called Meltdown.

"This guy is really a freak, how many loopholes does he have?" Fan Zhihang murmured.

Office of the General Manager of the Game Department.

Ren Yuxin was leaning on a chair and resting with her eyes closed, waiting for the result of the technical department's processing.

"Boom~boom~boom~"

"Come in." Ren Yuxin opened his eyes and said after hearing the knock on the door.

"Mr. Ren, the game plug-in has been updated again. The person who made it is a super expert. The loophole they used this time is still a chip loophole. The other party used the fruit server as a broiler." Fan Zhihang said very helplessly.

"Who the hell is the other party? He just does something that can make things difficult for us." Ren Yuxin cursed angrily.

Fan Zhihang suspected that Deep Blue Technology had done this, but he had no evidence so he didn't say anything. In fact, Ren Yuxin shared his suspicion that Deep Blue Technology had done it.

Because this incident is really a coincidence, your Deep Blue Technology has just launched the game, and our game has cheats.

But they don't have any evidence to prove that Deep Blue Technology did it.

"Go and deal with the bug. Send me an email after it's done." Ren Yuxin said helplessly.

"Okay, Mr. Ren." Fan Zhihang nodded.

Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Brian Krzanich finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the semiconductor sector had finally stabilized.

In just one morning, Intel's market value evaporated by 500 billion, and the entire semiconductor industry evaporated a total of nearly 3000 billion in market value.

This time, the whole Wall Street was vomiting blood with anger.

"puff"

Brian Krzanich squirted out all the coffee he had just entered.

Because the stock price of semiconductors has fallen again, the semiconductor sector has obviously stabilized, but it has fallen again inexplicably.

"Boom~boom~boom~"

"Come in," Brian Krzanich said as he wiped the monitor when he heard the knock on the door.

A blond big ocean horse with delicate appearance and slender figure walked in. The pair of snow-white giant peaks in front of him were ups and downs when walking, and they were definitely the most eye-catching ones walking on the street.

"Boss, the Computer Network Security Center issued an announcement that they found another vulnerability called Meltdown." Secretary Juana Karlov said.

"Farke, how did they find out?" Brian Krzanich cursed.

"It is said that it was discovered based on an illegal plug-in program, which modifies the game through this back door." Juana Karlov said.

"Notify the public relations department to prepare public relations." Brian Krzanich said helplessly.

Now that it's done, they have nothing to do. The only thing they can do now is public relations.

On this day, the entire semiconductor industry in the United States was driven crazy by system plug-ins.

Not long after the public relations department held a meeting, another back door burst out, and it went back and forth a total of five times.

Even the heads of public relations departments of various semiconductor companies are going crazy.

I didn't expect my own products to have so many back doors.

Once by chance, twice by chance.

The third time they didn't know how to explain it.

Even if you explain it, people won’t believe it.

However, there are still many smart people. The Intel think tank came up with a way, and Intel took the lead in holding a meeting.

05: 30.

Under the operation of superpowers, reporters from the entire city of Santa Clara came to the gate of Intel headquarters.

After confirming that all reporters were present, Juana Karloff notified Brian Krzanich to come out for public relations.

Because these journalists are paid, they are very orderly.

Brian Krzanich straightened his suit and walked to the podium.

"Thank you to the Computer Security Center for finding so many bugs for us. I believe everyone knows that chips are also manufactured through programming, so it is very normal for chips to have bugs.

Because the BUG of the product has caused trouble to everyone, I am here to say sorry to all consumers.

We will in the future." Brian Krzanich said in a scripted manner.

Intel Think Tank came up with a way to describe the backdoor as a BUG.

BUG and backdoor are different. Vulnerability is an unintentional behavior that is inevitable and unpredictable. Vulnerabilities exist in both hardware and software.

The backdoor is a deliberate act, it is deliberately set up by humans, and it is completely avoidable.

To put it bluntly, BUG is an acceptable attribute, and vulnerability is an attribute unacceptable to consumers. Their method is to confuse these two things.

As long as a little publicity is made, the crisis will be over.

Is there a feeling of referring to a deer as a horse, all they have to do is to refer to a deer as a horse.

Regardless of whether consumers believe it or not, they themselves believe it. Besides, consumers have no right to choose, because there are no alternative products in the market, and consumers will not be able to buy electronic products if they do not buy their products.

After Intel's move, other chip manufacturers also followed suit.

All chip manufacturers have tacitly described these hardware backdoors as bugs.

European netizens also talked a lot after seeing the press conferences of major chip manufacturers.

"They are obviously talking nonsense with their eyes open. This is obviously a back door deliberately left. They even called the back door a bug. They are too bullying."

"What can you do if they bully you? They are the only ones who can produce chips, unless you stop buying their products."

"Unless you want to completely reject their products and return to the original life, you can only choose to buy their products, right?"

"The only hope is that their future products won't have this problem again."

"Do you think this is possible? Unless these backdoors are not discovered, there will always be this problem. Information security is really worrying."

"What do you bastards have to worry about? What information do you have worth stealing? Those big companies are the ones who are worried. If there are still problems with their products, I believe those big companies will not buy them again.

After all, what company would want to use such a product with a backdoor? "

(End of this chapter)