Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3056 Insider

Speaking of which, Zhou Buqi hasn't seen Boss Li for two years.

Otherwise, he wouldn't come here as soon as someone made an appointment.

We haven't seen each other for two years, it would be nice to meet each other.

Li Yanhong is still in great shape, smiling like a handsome guy. After meeting him, he kept shaking hands and praising him, "Congratulations, your career is getting more and more successful! Especially Ziweixing International, you are really admirable."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Baidu is also actively developing the US market, which is great!"

Li Yanhong said, "Yes, I was planning it, and I had finally convinced a promising scientist to leave Google, but you snatched him away halfway."

"I really don't know much about this."

Zhou Buqi quickly passed the buck.

Li Yanhong asked curiously, "Really? I asked him, and he said that one of the important reasons why he joined Ziweixing International was that you made a special trip to New York to meet him."

"Really?" Zhou Buqi pretended to be confused. "Then I'm not sure. My schedule is arranged by them. I just do whatever they tell me to do. I'm not a technician, so I don't know who's who."

Li Yanhong smiled.

Don't believe it at all.

  This guy is so good at pretending!

He is not an ordinary scientist, but a representative of the artificial intelligence industry.

Zhou Buqi quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way, when I came here, I just heard that Weidian Antivirus had killed one of your software?"

Li Yanhong sighed, "Yes, the desktop clients of the two main programs."

Zhou Buqi said sternly, "Then I have to make it clear, there is absolutely no other intention here, and there is no vicious competition. I have already strictly prohibited it. Ziweixing will reject any form of commercial smearing, black public relations, water army rumor-mongering and other vicious competition!"

Others who say this may not be credible.

But what Boss Zhou said was still very credible. The domestic online public opinion resources are basically in the hands of Ziweixing. If Ziweixing really wanted to do it, it could have done it through various means long ago.

Li Yanhong said: "I know, it has nothing to do with you. On the contrary, I should thank Weidian Antivirus. Two of our products do contain malicious code. This malicious code is very dangerous. It will prevent being uninstalled by loading drivers and other means, then lurk for a long time and can be remotely controlled in the cloud at any time."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was startled.

  It’s quite serious!

As a serious large company, Baidu will definitely not take the initiative to do such things.

Li Yanhong said: "However, this is not to steal user information. Unlike many rumors on the Internet, this is not to steal user accounts and passwords to gain profits, but to steal commercial benefits from Baidu. It is mainly like the disguised rogue software in the past, which hijacks users to obtain traffic from advertising alliances. It tampers with and disguises alliance links to defraud Baidu of its share of traffic."

“Advertising fees!”

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Baidu Advertising Alliance is a platform, just like Weidian Advertising Alliance. All large, medium and small websites can join, and then any website that brings traffic to the ads in the advertising alliance can get advertising revenue from Baidu.

The more traffic, the more advertising revenue.

  What if there is no traffic?

Then hijack the user's traffic.

Li Yanhong said: "This time they hid very deeply. The infected computers were randomly selected according to conditions such as region and time period, and then the traffic was hijacked."

Zhou Buqi was puzzled. "Wasn't this kind of traffic hijacking done by the Internet many years ago? Wasn't it eliminated after the emergence of Weidian Security Guard and Weidian Antivirus? Which hacker force is so strong that it can even break through Baidu?"

"This one……"

Li Yanhong felt a little embarrassed.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Don't tell me that a company as big as Baidu doesn't even have this kind of defense mechanism."

Li Yanhong said: "It was a mistake in the use of personnel."

"What do you mean?"

"This was not done by outsiders, but by people inside Baidu. This was not a hijacking by external hackers, but an insider, so of course it is difficult to detect."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was a little bit unbelievable.

Guo Pengfei, who was standing beside him, reacted immediately. "Someone was bribed, right? Was this outsourced?"

Li Yanhong nodded. "Yes, outsourcing. This kind of desktop client is relatively simple to implement technically, and it is mainly done by outsourcing teams. Some external criminals bribed the outsourcing team and implanted their malicious code in the backend of our client. We have already reported it to the police. It is said that the bribery fee was only 40 yuan."

Zhou Buqi was a little dazed.

It feels ridiculous.

When something happens in many official agencies or public institutions and creates a negative impact, they will quickly issue a statement saying that it has nothing to do with the unit and that it was all done by temporary workers.

Unexpectedly, when it was Baidu's turn, it also made a similar argument of putting the blame on temporary workers.

However, this should also be true.

  It only cost 40 yuan to buy it out. That’s too cheap!

At Baidu, the annual salary of a fresh graduate is at least 25 yuan. It is impossible to bribe a regular employee with such a small amount of money. Regular employees are graduates from prestigious universities and have bright futures. Would they commit crimes for such a small amount of money?

Only outsourced people are not Baidu's employees. They lack a sense of belonging and loyalty to Baidu, and their own income is not much, so they are easily bribed.

  Many people may just want to make a quick buck and leave!

After taking this order and making a lot of money, he resigned and left the industry, or even left the Internet world, thinking of taking the money and opening a store in his hometown.

There are pros and cons to everything.

This is one of the downsides of outsourcing.

Outsourced employees are outsiders!

Setting up backdoors in programs is just one aspect. It is even easy to leak information. Outsourced personnel often steal the company's project code and then take it to other companies... Therefore, it is inevitable that major companies treat outsourced personnel differently, that is, they cannot let them touch the core business, and they cannot open up the same permissions as regular employees.

Guo Pengfei was confused from a business perspective and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Should we outsource the development of a product? And the final person who will be responsible for the final work won't be a formal employee?"

Li Yanhong said: "They are regular employees, but it is inevitable that some omissions will occur in such matters. Especially the outsourced team with connections, they always feel that they can be trusted, so they will slack off in many things."

"Relationship household?"

"Well, a mid-level manager at Baidu, who had no progress, went out to work on his own and opened a manpower outsourcing company. Everyone in the company trusted him, so they trusted the team he sent over even more."

“The process is still not optimized.”

Guo Pengfei also has an outsourcing team under him, so he knows everything.

Internet outsourcing requires trust, so there are generally two choices: one, a large listed outsourcing company; two, a client with connections.

The so-called people with connections are just like what Li Yanhong mentioned.

The middle-level and senior executives who left or retired from the company opened an outsourcing company. Because they are familiar with the company's business lines and technology stack, they know better what type of outsourced employees to recruit.

Just like Li Jun who will semi-retire from Ziweixing soon.

If he opens an outsourcing company outside and then comes back to cooperate with Ziweixing, he will have a great advantage.

Not only has Ziweixing established a trusting relationship with him over the years of working together.

And he has sufficient knowledge about Ziwei Star.

He understands Ziweixing's culture and knows what kind of personality and value orientation Ziweixing needs. Combined with business and technical requirements, the outsourced employees he recruits are more suitable for Ziweixing than employees from any other outsourcing company.

Ziweixing can be more adept at using the outsourcing team under Li Jun.

However, Li Jun is not a professional outsourcing worker after all.

The processes are certainly not as mature as those of the outsourcing giants that have become listed companies. Mistakes are bound to occur, as happened with Baidu this time.

Li Yanhong waved her hand and said, "This matter has been dealt with. Just wait for the police's notice. They can't get away. This is not what I asked you to come here to talk about today."

Zhou Buqi smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Yanhong said: "There is no need for the competition between Weidian and Baidu to be too aggressive."