Chapter 722 Too Ironic
On June 5, 2013, the day finally came.
The British "Guardian" first threw out the first public opinion bomb: the National Security Agency of the United States has a secret project code-named "Prism".
On June 6, the "Washington Post" revealed that in the past six years, the US National Security Agency and the FBI have monitored the emails and chats of US citizens by entering the servers of nine Internet giants including Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo. Confidential information such as records, videos and photos.
On June 8, more details came to light. The European side obtained the list and clearly saw the heinous scope of global surveillance.
Global public opinion was in an uproar.
"No wonder Google refuses to accept supervision, now everything is clear!"
"After a long time, Google really has ghosts!"
"Google is not a company that can be trusted!"
"I still remember the phrase from the founder of Google that Google will never do things that are sorry to users. It's ridiculous."
The fuse of Google is very useful, because just because the things in Southeast Asia are on the cusp, this makes things very smooth, and the outbreak began with Google as a breakthrough.
After Google, it was natural for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco to turn.
"I knew that there would be Microsoft's share. This is not the first time that Microsoft has been exposed. It is more difficult for users to have privacy on Microsoft's side!"
"Microsoft is the largest terrorist organization in the world! When will Microsoft go bankrupt!"
"We all use the Linux desktop system now, and the optimization of the system has been getting better and better in the past two years. Compared with Microsoft, the hardware ecology is slightly worse, but it doesn't matter to ordinary users.
I really can't get used to Microsoft anymore, this time I must let him know the pain! Otherwise, Microsoft will just continue to oppress the market like every time in the past! "
"Cisco is the key accomplice this time. Cisco's main customers are governments and core enterprises in various countries. If you want to get security, you have to replace all Cisco products first?!"
"Cisco missed the SDN era anyway, so let's just miss the entire future this time!"
"The apples are rotten like this, so let's perish quickly, don't come out to be disgusting!"
"Cook was still talking about respecting user privacy last month. Are capitalists really heartless? Don't they really feel a little bit sorry when they deceive consumers?"
After that, there was anger directed at the whole incident.
"Who gave you the right to monitor our privacy?"
"Users all over the world should unite to boycott these companies in the United States."
"This is disgusting. Is this the so-called democratic freedom? Is it the democratic freedom that puts everything under your control?"
"This is not just a matter of boycotting products. The whole world should launch a de-Americanization! According to the current development speed of Yunzhilian, if it continues like this, there will really be a plot where everyone is controlled like in the movie!"
The world's doubts about the United States and American technology companies erupted instantly, and in addition to the outbreak of public opinion, the market's behavioral responses quickly followed.
In just one week, Twitter users have logged out by 12%, their activity has dropped by 35%, Google search users have logged out by 11%, and their search usage rate has dropped by 48%, the return rate of Apple and Android phones has exceeded 23%, and the usage rate of Microsoft has dropped 19%.
Of course, just like in the previous life, the company with the biggest market reaction is Cisco, and Cisco has almost ushered in a 100% return rate. As netizens said, Cisco is the core accomplice of this incident, and Cisco is basically Large customers, large customer chargebacks are easier to concentrate than small customers.
All Cisco orders that have not been issued have basically been refunded, and customers who have cooperated have also come to complain and ask Cisco to give a reasonable explanation.
But what can Cisco explain now? No matter in the past or in this life, Cisco has chosen to be a tortoise, saying nothing, just waiting for everyone's memory to fade after time passes.
And Cisco's silent response also made everyone realize that he was waiting for the market sentiment to subside and what to do, because he is Cisco and because he has a monopoly position in the industry.
As a result, the market situation quickly shifted to another direction, and everyone began to consider a very realistic problem. If the products of these companies cannot be used, can everyone find a substitute?
This substitute must not only make the product good, but at least on the surface, it must not violate user privacy or even directly monitor users like American companies.
But the companies involved in this incident are almost all technology monopoly companies. Where should such replacements be found?
In the previous life, the strong public relations ability and the absolute technological leadership of American products will start to play a role next. After a while, everyone will still have to continue to buy their products.
But this life may have some different future trends.
Just when the market was in chaos, the 6th Gale Global Developers Conference came, and the theme of this year's conference was directly marked with five characters: security and privacy.
On the morning of the first day of the conference, Meng Qian appeared again as the opening ceremony after five years, "Recently, many people have left messages in my Fengxin circle and WeChat circle of friends, hoping that I can stand up and say a few words.
As you all know, judging from the recently exposed list, we have two private companies in Huaxia that are on the monitoring list, one is Huawei, and the other is our Dafeng Group.
I saw some netizens jokingly saying that we should feel proud, but ridicule is ridicule after all. From the perspective of enterprises, we will not really be proud at this time. We just want to solve the problem now.
We have also thought about condemning like European companies, but everyone has condemned. In fact, one more of us is not too much, and one of us is not much. During this period of time, we have been thinking more about how to solve this problem.
Because condemnation is a moral matter after all, what we are more concerned about at the moment is how to quickly build our security product library and how to truly protect the security of users in this Internet age.
To this end, we recently contacted global companies again, hoping to build a security system covering the world one step faster, so that global users can enjoy the convenience brought by the Internet without worrying about whether the Internet is monitoring our lives. .
This year's conference, we will focus on promoting security products and technologies from around the world.
At the same time, we hope that the conference will attract the attention of more companies, and we also hope that more companies will join our WIFI Standards Association and our WIFI Security Organization after the meeting.
In addition, we will go one step further and build a global Internet Security Association, making security a solid guarantee for the development of the Internet. "
When the world was looking for a replacement, the Dafeng Group appeared in the public's field of vision.
In the past few years when capital entered Silicon Valley and led to the explosion of Silicon Valley, if there is any company whose technology level is sufficient to maintain a high level in the face of the outbreak of Silicon Valley, it must be Dafeng Group.
If there is any company that can bring trust to everyone at this juncture and make global users willing to believe that their products are safe, it must put security, privacy, and user experience first from the very beginning. There is no Gale Group with any relevant black material so far.
The Gale Group unknowingly became another global focus under this incident.
But you say that Meng Qian is mocking or rubbing the heat. The Dafeng Group has indeed started to pay attention to security several years ago. The reason why the Kunlun system defeated the Windows system was security.
Moreover, Meng Qian began to promote security and privacy issues in a high-profile manner at the beginning of this year. Everyone has heard that this year's Dafeng Global Developers Conference will continue to focus on security and privacy issues. This is not deliberately to ridicule anyone.
But you said that Meng Qian was not mocking, right? It is so ironic to see Dafeng Group listed as the most unsafe company.
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