It was two o 'clock in the afternoon, Eastern Time.
The President of the United States was in a heated debate with the media on Twitter.
"Dear American citizens, our media is a wholesale center for fake news. Please don't believe those fake news, believe my Twitter. — PS: I'm not an American if I don't retweet... "
"I'm proud to be an American!"
"Believe me! I want to make America great again! "
Just as he was about to send a few more tweets, he heard the landline phone on his desk ring.
This was the President's special line. Usually, when a call came in, it was an important matter.
The President of the United States reluctantly put away his cell phone, picked up the landline phone, and said "hello" lazily.
"Mr. President, this is Hillent. Are you free? I need half an hour to inform you of a cyber attack that our country has just suffered! "The caller was Major General Hillent, the Director of the CIA.
The President of the United States suddenly trembled with anger. "What?! Say that again?! Someone dares to attack my great American network?! They're not giving me a way out! "
Without the Internet, there would be no Twitter. How could he continue to be the President?!
Major General Hillent had long been accustomed to the image of the President as a "terminal internet addict" and did not care much. He still said in a business-like tone, "Mr. President is wise. We will take a series of follow-up measures to crack down on those who dare to violate our American network security. "
"Good! I support you! " The President of the United States breathed a sigh of relief. "Major General Hillent, I knew you would make a great contribution to making America great again!"
At this time, Major General Hillent, the Director of the CIA, was also unsure if he should say it or not.
He took a deep breath and went to the President's Oval Office.
"Mr. President, this is a report on a cyber attack that has just occurred. Please take a look." Major General Hillent, the Director of the CIA, placed a 500-word report in front of the President.
The President of the United States frowned and looked at it, then pointed to the report and said, "I saw the cyber attack here, but what about the damage? Have you evaluated it? "
Major General Hillent nodded and took out another 1,000-word report. "Here is the fixed asset loss assessment report and intangible asset assessment report."
The two reports were full of numbers. Most people would find it difficult to look at them, but the President of the United States was a successful businessman. He had the best feeling for numbers.
Therefore, when he saw the two reports, he became even angrier. He pounded the table and roared, "This is too much! Didn't you say it was a cyber attack? How did we lose so many computers?! Do you think I'm stupid?! "
Could he climb over the network cable and smash the computer?!
Major General Hillent: "…"
The veins on his forehead throbbed. He pushed up the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and said expressionlessly, "Because that place is also our country's largest backup storage base. All of the world's data since the birth of the Internet has been backed up there. Of course, apart from the encrypted intranets of various countries. "
Those encrypted intranets were places that their automatic downloading programs had difficulty accessing, which was one of the reasons they began experimenting with intelligent programming languages.
If the intelligent programming language was developed to perfection, they could hand over the task of entering the encrypted intranet to the intelligent program.
This time, they had hacked into the Hua Xia Empire's intranet using an AI program. Unfortunately, before their AI program was fully developed, it had already been discovered and removed …
"So what?" The President of the United States glared at the Director of the CIA. "Why do we have backups of all the world's Internet data here? Did you ask them to collect usage fees? Do you think it's free to use our backup data? "
Major General Hillent: "…"
Forget it. He had already given up on treatment.
Major General Hillent didn't explain more about security to the President. Instead, he said directly, "Mr. President, this is a very good suggestion. We will consider it. But our problem now is that we were hacked by the Hua Xia Empire and suffered heavy losses. "
"… You still haven't explained why you lost so much hardware due to the network intrusion." The President of the United States was a very shrewd businessman and not easy to fool.
Major General Hillent explained again, "Because it was a backup base, the facilities were very tight. From electricity to fire protection, they were all designed for hundreds of years of uninterrupted storage. Therefore, when the Hua Xia Empire's cyber attack suddenly came, our people had no choice but to use physical destruction to destroy the computers infected by the Trojan virus. "
Because of the special nature of the backup base, they couldn't shut down all the equipment and could only physically destroy the infected equipment.
Of course, the biggest reason was that the person in charge of the secret laboratory didn't expect that the "Pink Piggy" who had disappeared for half a year would suddenly appear and join the Hua Xia Empire's hacker organization to launch an attack on their American network!
The most cunning thing was that the Pink Piggy actually disguised the Trojan virus as a system file and was packaged and brought back by them …
Just thinking about it made him want to vomit blood.
The person in charge, Mr. X, kept complaining that the "Pink Piggy" was too cunning and wanted to "find" him and fight him fair and square!
Major General Hillent, however, believed that if the Pink Piggy couldn't be used by them, they could only make him physically disappear, which meant that he would die.
The President of the United States finally understood Major General Hillent's meaning. After a moment of silence, he said, "What do you need me to do?"
He finally got it …
Major General Hillent almost burst into tears.
He hurriedly said, "Mr. President, if our efforts don't work, then we hope that you can directly pressure the Hua Xia Imperial government to hand over the 'Pink Piggy'!"
The President of the United States raised his hand and agreed without hesitation. "That's no problem. As the President of the United States, this is the effort I should make for America's cybersecurity. If you can't find out who the 'Pink Piggy' is, I will pressure the Hua Xia Imperial government to hand over this person. "
Major General Hillent was surprised again and blushed a little.
He didn't expect that the President, who he thought was extremely unreliable, would actually understand what he meant in an instant.
He was thinking that if he couldn't find out the true identity of the "Pink Piggy," then he would directly use force and have the US Department of Foreign Affairs pressure the Hua Xia Empire to hand over the person.
But doing so meant that the CIA was incompetent. They couldn't even find a hacker, and they had to have the government step in and use diplomatic pressure to force the other party to hand over the person. It was really a bit embarrassing.
Most people wouldn't be able to understand the hidden meaning here.
But their Mr. President immediately understood.
It should be said that this seemingly unreliable President of the United States was also a dark horse in the election. Other than the voters who voted for him, perhaps even he himself didn't believe that he had really been elected President!
However, since he had become President, he would still work hard to complete his work as President and work hard for the great revival of the United States!
After Major General Hillent finished discussing the action steps with the President, he was very grateful for the President's support for his work. For the first time, he gave the President a sincere and unperfunctory military salute.
The President of the United States noticed the change in the CIA Director's attitude and was also overjoyed. He couldn't control his mouth for a moment and said, "Don't worry, if they don't hand over the person, I will attack them on Twitter! I will embarrass them in front of the whole world! "
Major General Hillent really wanted to take back his good impression of him just now …
He closed his eyes and told the President, "Mr. President, this matter must be kept absolutely confidential before diplomatic pressure is applied. So I hope you won't send any Twitter for 24 hours. "
Because the only way to prevent the President from leaking information was to make sure he didn't send Twitter at all.
If he could, Major General Hillent really wanted to confiscate the President's phone.
Of course, it was just a thought.
How could he confiscate the President's phone?!
"I know what I'm doing." The President of the United States waved his hand. "Don't worry."
…
It was two o 'clock in the afternoon in the United States, which was also two o' clock in the morning in the Huaxia Empire.
In the central control room of the Huaxia Empire's imperial capital, everyone had experienced a tense cyber war and had finally relaxed.
Other than some people who were still scanning the network to remove traces left behind by the US cyber attack, most people were resting.
Gu Nianzhi sat next to Huo Shaoheng and chatted with him from time to time as she analyzed the source code that had been restored by the four lines of AI program.
"It seems that these four lines of instructions were implanted into this monitoring software six months ago." Gu Nianzhi pointed to the Special Task Force's special monitoring software on the screen.
"Yes, it should have been implanted for the Prime Minister's election." Huo Shaoheng looked higher and further.
He would never forget that time when someone seemed to have cast an invisible net.
They first transferred him out of the country, then lured Gu Nianzhi out, and finally commandeered the central control room to "monitor" the election.
So coincidentally, the election at that time was supervised by the Secret Service and the Special Operations Forces' central control room together.
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PS: According to the US TV news, there really is such a base in the United States that continuously stores global Internet data since the birth of the Internet … Maybe our chat records and emails from a long time ago can be backed up there …
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