Chapter 640: Prism

In January of 1983, the first week just after Christmas, under the guidance of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Tan Zhenhua and the Posacs reached an investment agreement on the "router", a brand-new network equipment. And became the largest shareholder of the newly established IT communications company.
In this newly established company, he will invest 5 million U.S. dollars and occupy 40% of the company's shares. The Possacks and Stanford School will jointly occupy the remaining 60% of the shares. As for the latter The ratio needs to be determined after specific discussions with the school tomorrow, but according to Stanford's practice, the school will account for about 20%.
He certainly knows what this means, and of course he knows what will happen in the future.
This small company, which was just born in the living room of Posack’s family, will occupy an extremely important position in the subsequent wave of information revolution. It is not only because Mrs. Sandy has a meaning for this newly-born small company. Far-reaching name-Cisco, Cisco.
The reason why Tan Zhenhua wanted this company to firmly brand its own brand at the beginning of its founding, apart from knowing that it will surely become the top supplier of network equipment because of the epoch-making invention of "router", but also because Some other extremely important reasons.
The router is one of the most basic network equipment to build the Internet that will connect the world in the future. It is also the hub that interconnects the local area networks and wide area networks in the Internet. It is also a key equipment related to network security, because as long as it is transmitted on this network All data must inevitably be distributed through routers.
And if the router is intentionally implanted with a backdoor, then all data transmitted on this network will have no secrets at all.
Think about it, if a country’s network is built on this kind of backdoor network device, it is equivalent to exposing everything in this country to the eyes of the backdoor controller, and all the data can be requested by him. What a terrifying thing that would be.
What Tan Zhenhua knows is that when Huaxia just started its informatization construction, when Huaxia’s domestically produced alternative equipment had not yet risen, China’s entire country’s network was built on this foundation, and it did so. It's not just the Huaxia family. In fact, almost the entire world's Internet was built on various network equipment provided by Cisco.
And this undoubtedly provides the United States with the ability to spy on the world.
The United States obviously did not waste this ability.
In 2013, the "Prism Gate" incident that shocked the whole world uncovered by the rebellious former CIA employee Snowden revealed the tip of the iceberg of the abuse of this ability by the United States.
Snowden, a former technical assistant to the US Central Intelligence Agency, threw a blockbuster to the media on June 5, 2013. He provided the British "Guardian" and "The Washington Post" with detailed evidence to prove The US National Security Agency NSA and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have been using various backdoors or preset codes in network equipment to mine data and collect intelligence from the central servers of major Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple, Nine international IT network giants with a US background, including Cisco, participated.
In this secret surveillance program code-named "US-984XN" or "Prism", the National Security Bureau of the US can perform email, instant messaging, video, photos, stored data, voice chat, file transfer, video conferencing, and login to the target. Time and the details of social network information can be monitored in real time, and even real-time online search content of a target person can be monitored.
Even the calls between the so-called US allies and their leaders in NATO cannot escape the monitoring of the US!
Tan Zhenhua doesn't want to pursue the ability of the US government now, but he also feels that he doesn't mind laying a meaningful foreshadowing for someday in the future.
What's more, investing in Cisco is a good business with huge potential and huge profits from a business perspective.
And there is one more thing. Tan Zhenhua deeply knows that when a certain China communications company rises, Cisco will become the inevitable business opponent and enemy of this China company, and has manipulated a series of conspiracies against this company behind the scenes. , In an attempt to delay the pace of this enterprise to the top.
However, the excellent company that had set up the grand ambition of "China Youwei" since its inception, after a series of setbacks and blows, eventually grew into a communications giant that dazzled Bluestar, with its scale and leading Technology has left the former overlord like Cisco far behind.
Therefore, Tan Zhenhua believes that his small investment of 5 million US dollars today will surely bring him sufficient returns in the future.
And these rewards are not just money.
After dealing with the cooperation with the Posacks, what he has to do in San Francisco has basically come to an end. Next, he needs to solve another important issue.
This time when he returned to Ningdu, he learned a bit of not-so-good news from Ben. The ELTA system company of Issa is probably unable to provide the EL/M-2021B airborne fire control radar for his "Sea Harrier" fighter.
According to Ben Fang and his joint inference, the reason for this result is probably due to resistance from the United States.
In nominal terms, the purchase of 12 "Sea Harrier" fighters was carried out by Pakistan Railways to execute the contract, but there are many smart people in the world. From the negotiation process, it can be very simply inferred that those who really want to obtain these fighters People must come from China.
To be honest, in the so-called "circle of friends" in the United States, Pakistan Tie is one level higher than China.
For example, the F-16, the largest traded commodity exported by the U.S. Arms, Pakistan Railway can obtain a full-fledged F-16 fighter jet, and can also use military aid funds, which means that you hardly need to pay for it. Some restrictions. And what about China? Even if Huaxia approved the transaction, what Miguo would sell to Huaxia would only replace the advanced turbofan engine with the backward turbojet engine "F-16-J79".
Therefore, if Batie really wants to buy the "Sea Harrier", the Miguo might just close one eye, but after knowing that the last buyer was Hua Xia, he said he should come and insert something. Tapped.
So using the hands of the Isaans to stifle the efforts of the Chinese people to obtain advanced PD radars is obviously a good way to get in the way.
This technique is really old. Tan Zhenhua can smell the strong American flavor inside without using his nose.
Therefore, if we want to solve this problem, we must also start from the United States.
When he was in Ningdu, he promised Benfang, saying that he had a way, and he did think of a way, because he knew that to solve this problem, he did not go to Issa or London, but to go to a place first. .
New York, Wall Street.