Chapter 971: Hitting You in the Face Directly
What is Project Prism?
The Prism Project is a top-secret electronic monitoring program implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI (FBI) since 2007 during the George W. Bush era. The official name of the program is "US-984XN".
Project Prism can conduct in-depth monitoring of instant messaging and existing data. The monitoring targets include customers in the United States and overseas who participate in the use of the company's equipment and services. That is to say, the United States can monitor the world.
The participating companies include nine international Internet giants including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
Later, a guy named Edward Snowden ran away with two top-secret documents, and now the whole world knows about this plan of the United States.
At that time, those two documents did not involve mobile phones, but mainly aimed at Internet data, but this time the "Hall Institute" revealed that Qualcomm was also part of the Prism Project, and the United States was monitoring the world. Much bigger than what Snowden revealed.
As soon as this article came out, it immediately attracted great attention from all parties, because this article directly pointed at the US national security department.
The previous Snowden incident was an uproar, which can be said to be known to the whole world. It took about a year to gradually subside. Now it is revealed that Qualcomm may participate in the Prism project, which immediately touched the most sensitive nerves in the world.
Suspect,
panic,
These emotions come into play.
The most intuitive reaction is reflected in the stock price. I saw that Qualcomm's stock price began to fall crazily, and the circuit breaker mechanism was triggered three times, and finally fell to 20% and was suspended for protection.
Qualcomm really panicked.
Chairman Tom Horton once again held a press conference to explain the incident.
"We can responsibly say that Qualcomm has not provided any backdoors for the US national security agencies, and we do not allow anyone to use our chips to obtain users' personal information. Qualcomm has always been committed to creating the best chips to serve everyone .”
Qualcomm categorically denied this, and everyone was aware of this, even if they had, they would not admit it, but the reporters did not let the chairman of Qualcomm go.
"Then may I ask if there are any loopholes in Qualcomm chips that threaten the safe use of users." A reporter asked.
Tom Horton pursed his lips with difficulty, "Yes, we need to admit that no design is perfect, and we will continue to improve because of defects. So far, Qualcomm is still the best chip in the world."
Tom Horton said euphemistically, but everyone can hear that the chairman has admitted that Qualcomm chips have design problems.
"Then how do you ensure that these vulnerabilities are not used by hackers to leak user information? We are concerned about this, because many of us here are also users of Qualcomm chip mobile phones." A reporter asked.
"I can only say that we will provide the latest security vulnerability software to prevent hackers from taking advantage of it. At this point, Qualcomm has always done a very good job. Our technology is beyond doubt." Tom Horton said with a full face Said confidently.
At the same time, the National Security Agency of the United States also held a press conference. The spokesperson said in a serious tone: "The so-called 'Hall Institute' is a fictitious organization that has never been registered in any country. It is an organization of lies. , what he said was also a lie, and according to our investigation, all the information came from outside the United States.”
"What I want to say here is that the United States is not monitoring anyone, and the actions of the United States will be responsible for all American citizens."
"For those who spread rumors and slander, we will take action to find out the 'Hall Institute' who spread rumors and crack down severely."
Regarding Qualcomm and the National Security Agency, the media and the public obviously have different opinions, and there are many comments on the Internet.
"Security vulnerabilities have existed for a long time, but they have never been announced to the public. Qualcomm itself is fraudulent, which makes me feel like I am being stripped naked all the time. Although they don't pay attention to me as an ordinary person, it still feels scary."
"Qualcomm chips should be boycotted, what a rubbish company."
"Under the Patriot Act, which was repealed in 2015, all levels of police agencies in the United States have the authority to search and analyze any private phone, email communications, medical, financial, and other kinds of records. "Store data in telecommunications companies. According to the Act, these data must be authorized by the court before they can be called. However, according to the information that Google, Facebook and other companies have been exposed to have been cooperating with US intelligence organizations, the Act has not been complied with. .”
"We live in an era of extreme insecurity. Everything about us is being monitored. Who will protect our rights and interests? The US National Security Agency categorically denies it, but I doubt it."
Scarlett was sitting in the office, watching the news on TV. When the deputy director of the National Security Agency mentioned the "Hall Research Laboratory", she thought of a person for no reason, that bastard with the bald head and big chin.
'Hall Lab'.
Jon Hall, that's the name that bastard used when he boarded the "Crystal Palace" cruise ship.
"Could it be that bastard?"
Scarlett has a special sense of spirituality, which can even be regarded as a special function. When she doubts something, she often finds out in the end that the result is just as she had foreseen and guessed at the beginning.
"How much did Qualcomm stock fall, and how much did we make?" Johnson asked.
"It's down 47% from when we bought it, nearly half of it. I used 5 times leverage. It should be easy to calculate how much I earn." Jiang Hao said with a smile.
With 5 times leverage, as long as the fluctuation exceeds 20%, the brokerage will forcibly liquidate the position. The risk is also not small, but Jiang Hao feels that it should be within his control. After all, there is no big benefit, and Qualcomm’s stock is impossible. sub growth of 20%.
Johnson did a simple mental calculation, and said in surprise: "My God, you have already made $650 million."
"It's about the same. The main reason is that I dare not activate the leverage too much, for fear that the fluctuations will be too violent." Jiang Hao said.
"I have seen a series of your operations these days. I found that you are really a devil. I feel that Qualcomm is going to be played to death by you." Johnson sighed.
Jiang Hao shook his head, "Impossible. After all, Qualcomm is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phone chips and has countless patents. Their background is very strong. It's just because of my combination of punches that they are a little overwhelmed. Even if the stock falls, let them Qualcomm has suffered heavy losses, and it cannot shake the foundation of others."
What Jiang Hao said is indeed true. Although Qualcomm has various problems, it is still the best chip in the world, and other chip manufacturers are still far behind.
"We're just making money, so we don't have to think about it so much. I'm going to wait for the last round tomorrow, and then sell the stocks and cash out." Jiang Hao said.
"It's up to you," Johnson said.
Johnson now admires Jiang Hao very much. In a short period of time, one of the world's largest mobile phone chip manufacturers lost nearly half of it. There are only a few people in the world who can do this.
At the beginning, I called a few guys to ask them to invest. Many people hesitated. Most of them just invested part of it because of their own face. When they saw the profit, they knew that they regretted that they invested less.
As for those guys who don't trust themselves and don't invest a penny, I won't ask for them in the future.
Due to the problem of Qualcomm chips, it has affected countless mobile phone manufacturers. This is the case in foreign countries, as well as several major manufacturers in China. In the stock market, the stocks of manufacturers that use Qualcomm chips have fallen to varying degrees.
A fire at the city gate will bring disaster to the fish in the pond!
Johnson left, and Jiang Hao sat in a daze in the studio, thinking about his own affairs. He cheated Qualcomm this time, and made hundreds of millions of dollars by the way, but so far, he has not received a single system message.
In other words, all his actions now are legal.
Poking out Qualcomm chip loopholes, pointing out that Qualcomm may participate in the Prism project, these actions are also within the legal scope.
Jiang Hao suddenly understood one thing, that is, he seemed to be right when he said that Qualcomm participated in the Prism Project, haha, this is called reverse deduction, and the system told Jiang Hao the correct answer.
What is your task?
Crime.
It’s not okay to be gentle, sunny, sunny, springy and snowy like this, OK, let’s give them some ruthless tomorrow.
the next day.
Thursday,
The New York stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time, and the U.S. stock market runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., without a break at noon, and trades for six and a half hours a day.
The stock market had just started, and everyone found that Qualcomm stock had a strong rebound, and the trading volume gradually increased. Many people could see that there should be a large capital injection, either to rescue the market or to buy the bottom. It only took one hour. The stock rose 4 percent.
Many investors feel that Qualcomm has a strong recovery momentum.
In fact, the problems that broke out before, such as chip security vulnerabilities and participation in the Prism project, are nothing new. Companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook also encountered Prism. What happened in the end? It is still the highest market value. One of the top ten Internet companies. As for chip vulnerabilities, no one can shake its status anyway. If you don’t choose Qualcomm, who else can you choose? Are other chip manufacturers sure to be perfect? As long as Qualcomm's technology and patents exist, it will still be the world's number one chip maker.
Two hours after the opening of the market, Qualcomm's stock has rebounded by 5.5%. Although it is not comparable to the 47% decline these days, it is still considered a strong recovery.
But at this moment,
Hall Institute jumped out again!
A statement from the Hall Institute suddenly broke out on the Internet.
"'Hall Institute' is a company dedicated to the research of future technologies. What's more, we are indeed not an American company. Regarding the accusations made against us by the US security department, that we slander Qualcomm, perhaps we should produce some evidence to show that Our innocence."
"Next, we will post the evidence."
"We have reason to believe that Google is stealing user information on a large scale. Just a few months ago, some companies pointed out that Google has stolen user information. Some of the application software that Google puts on the Android and Apple stores can save user information. The collected data includes 2 billion Android users and tens of millions of Apple mobile phone users."
"More seriously, even if the user stops geo-location recording, some Google applications will still automatically store the data with the location, and will not ask the user about it."
"Google's explanation for this is that the data collection is necessary to further increase the speed and performance of the messaging service, and that the collected data is public data and does not involve real privacy."
"Now, we are skeptical of Google's statement, because we have a large section of call records between Google executives and Qualcomm executives. The recordings and text chat records show that the two parties are communicating and negotiating to steal user data, and These data will also be specially copied to the U.S. national security department for data backup."
Below this article, there is a screenshot of Google's text chat software. The names mentioned above are Powell, Google's vice president of communications and public affairs, and the other is Qualcomm's vice president Max Ned.
The two exchanged a lot of content, but they mainly focused on one topic, how to collect user information more conveniently and use the data as a tool for the next step of company operations. Of course, the US national security department was also mentioned.
Powell even complained that the U.S. national security agencies are annoying and always want to take away more information, but Google has always been more cautious about this, because they are afraid that they will use too much of this information, which will arouse the suspicion of Google users and leak information. The fact that Google stole user data.
sensation!
big news.
After the news came out, it spread wildly on the Internet immediately, and spread wantonly through various channels. Powell, vice president of communication and public affairs of Google, and Max Ned, vice president of Qualcomm, have really become famous now.
correct,
The vice president of Max Ned was the guy who stood up and held a press conference before Qualcomm, saying that Qualcomm never stole user information to open the back door.
This is a direct slap in the face.
The people were in an uproar,
"Oh my god, it's all true, we were scammed by Google and betrayed by Qualcomm."
"Our privacy does not exist at all, we are completely transparent people, who will protect our privacy."
"The U.S. government will protect your privacy, oh, it is reserved, so please go back to the era of digital mobile phones and say goodbye to smart phones."
"The mobile phone is no longer our assistant, but the biggest helper who betrays us."
"No, I don't think the mobile phone should be blamed, but Qualcomm and Google should be blamed, they are trampling on our human rights."
Affected by the news, Qualcomm's stock price plummeted again, followed by three blossoms all the way, and finally fell to 20% suspension protection again.
Looking at the falling line of Qualcomm's red stock, Jiang Hao smiled. The total profit has exceeded one billion and can be harvested.
Without hesitation, Jiang Hao threw out the Qualcomm short position directly, and the funds began to withdraw, and were injected into the company accounts he registered with the offshore company, and then transferred to the bank he opened. After three transfers and two transfers, the money fell safely into his pocket.
Now Jiang Hao can only relax and watch the show.
Because the article "Hall Research Lab" also involved Google, affected by this, Google's stock also fluctuated a lot, and it began to decline continuously in the afternoon, and finally closed down by 3.7%.
You know, Google's market value has reached an astonishing 800 billion US dollars, and just this news made Google evaporate 30 billion.