Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3121 Photo Album Security

Arrived in Los Angeles.

The first person I met was not someone from Hollywood, but a direct descendant from Silicon Valley - Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan was sent from China to serve as the vice president of Ziwei Cloud, responsible for the e-commerce services under Ziwei Cloud. Zhou Buqi had high hopes for him, and letting him serve as the vice president of Ziwei Cloud also played a role in supervising Kurian.

"How did you come?"

Zhou Buqi was very happy to see him at the headquarters of Ziweixing Global and he was arm in arm with him.

Jiang Fan smiled and said, "Kurian asked me to come."

"Him?" Zhou Buqi was very surprised. "What can't you say over the phone?"

Jiang Fan said: "It's very important."

"Go to the office."

Zhou Buqi did not avoid Jason Kilar, the CEO of Ziweixing Global, and went to the office together.

"The Hollywood photo scandal is backed by Apple Cloud!"

Jiang Fan was very excited.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Don't gloat over other people's misfortunes."

Jiang Fan said: "Apple Cloud is too bad! We have discussed it internally. Apple Cloud's security level is too low. Compared with Ziwei Cloud, they don't even have an entry level. This incident is said to be a leak of account passwords? But no matter what, Apple's cloud album has a backward security mechanism. In my opinion, this is probably just the beginning. I estimate that more hackers will hack into Apple's cloud album in the future."

This is really accurate.

Private photos of Hollywood actresses are often the first choice of many low-level hackers. Hollywood actresses often use iPhones, and their photos are stored in Apple's cloud albums, which causes the cloud albums to be constantly attacked by hackers around the world.

Accidents often happen.

This is just the beginning.

Two years later, a new scandal of nude photos came. One or two years later, another new one came...

Apple Cloud has a very low strategic level and very little investment. Compared with more powerful and professional cloud computing platforms, Apple Cloud is too weak and lacks the ability to respond to market changes.

"It's not necessarily all Apple Cloud's fault. Hollywood female stars are more popular with hackers and are attacked more frequently." Zhou Buqi thought of something and looked at Kilar next to him. "Three or four years ago, there was a large-scale photo leak in Hollywood?"

Kilar nodded. "Indeed, it was not a cloud photo album leak, but a personal email leak. Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and a group of others were victims."

"Scarlett Johansson?"

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

  Depend on!

Sure enough it was her!

The image of Marvel's "Black Widow" in real life is almost the same as the image of "Black Widow" in the comics. Her private life is a mess, and everything is related to her.

"The hacker's name seemed to be Johnny. He was caught very quickly and was tried for more than two years... He was confirmed last year and was sentenced to more than 40 years. The nature of his crime was quite serious. He hacked into the personal computers of more than a dozen female stars many times, stole their personal information, and then blackmailed them."

Kirar was no stranger to this matter.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Why is it a mailbox?"

Kilar said: "Many people like to use email to send their photos to friends. As long as a Trojan virus is implanted in a personal computer, the user's email account and password can be stolen, and then all the information in the email can be checked remotely. Google Mail, Microsoft Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Firefox Mail are all affected."

After hearing this, Zhou Buqi understood.

Every day, he receives many private photos in his mailbox, all sent to him by girls with dreams. Some even leave messages behind some nude photos, saying "Mr. Zhou, I will sleep with you, can you make me a star?" Straightforward and naive. "It's different now." Jiang Fan is deeply dissatisfied with the nude photo incident three or four years ago. "Relying on Trojans to steal accounts and passwords is a hacker's trick in the past. This routine is useless on cloud computing platforms! At least it's useless for Ziwei Cloud! The cloud e-commerce service I am in charge of has a daily transaction volume of more than 10 billion US dollars, and it is attacked by at least thousands of cyber attacks around the world every day. We are not afraid of any form of Trojans."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him and said, "If these female stars don't store their photos in Apple's cloud photo album, but in Ziwei Cloud's photo album product, can we guarantee that their photos are safe?"

"can!"

Jiang Fan vowed solemnly.

Zhou Buqi shook his head and laughed, "You are so arrogant."

Jiang Fan also has his reasons, "The biggest weakness of Apple Cloud is the matching of Apple Cloud and iOS system."

"Hmm? Weak?"

Zhou Buqi thought this statement was very fresh.

Apple's photo cloud is designed to be part of the iOS system, and since they are both products of the same company, they are a natural fit, which should be an advantage.

Jiang Fan laughed and said, "The hackers who stole photos of female stars are all low-level hackers. The top hackers are all studying system-level vulnerabilities. Every update and upgrade of the iOS system actually has patches for vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities are discovered by Apple, some are bought from hackers, and some are discovered passively after being attacked. Each vulnerability in this system can be worth tens of millions of dollars, which is more profitable than blackmailing with nude photos of female stars."

"and then?"

"Some top hackers are not motivated by the desire to make money, but to sabotage Apple."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

It is not convenient to say more about this matter. Business competition often involves using any means necessary. Ziweixing is not clean in this regard either. It also has a security team that specializes in "checking for leaks and filling gaps" in major systems.

Jiang Fan went on to say: "Many times, when top hackers discover system vulnerabilities in iOS, they disdain to sell them to Apple to make money, but instead directly publish them on the Internet or in a small hacker circle. At this time, some third- and fourth-rate hackers will use these vulnerabilities to cause trouble in Apple devices."

Zhou Buqi understood what he meant. "You mean we can use some loopholes in the iOS system to directly access Apple's cloud photo album from the back door?"

Jiang Fan said: "Yes, that's what I mean! Now the information transmission of the Internet is all in the cloud, especially Apple, which relies heavily on cloud services to provide it with stable Internet services. This leads to a high degree of compatibility between the iOS system and the Apple cloud, and many system vulnerabilities are related to cloud services. This will further reduce the difficulty for hackers to attack Apple's cloud album."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Our products don't have such difficulties?"

Jiang Fan smiled and said, "If Ziwei Cloud develops a cloud photo album product, it is a third-party product and is not very compatible with the iOS system. iOS system vulnerabilities can threaten Apple's cloud, but not Ziwei Cloud. These are two completely different working environments. Hackers can rely on iOS system vulnerabilities to invade Apple's cloud album, but they cannot invade our cloud photo album product."

"Can you guarantee that?"

Zhou Buqi narrowed his eyes and realized the strategic value of this matter.

Jiang Fan hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, "The default photo albums of Esda and Samsung phones all use the cloud photo album service of Ziwei Cloud. Because Ziwei Cloud and Android are not the same operating system, the system vulnerabilities of Ziwei Cloud cannot bypass Android, and the system vulnerabilities of Android cannot bypass Ziwei Cloud. This cooperation model is much more secure. Although the number of vulnerabilities in the Android system is dozens of times that of the iOS system, our cloud photo album service is indeed safer than Apple's cloud photo album."

Zhou Buqi said: "If I say that I call on all female celebrities to use Ziwei Cloud's photo album service, if a photo leak occurs, we will compensate them. The platform must actively take responsibility. Is this feasible?"

Jiang Fan said: "It is feasible, but it needs to be weighed. The higher the security performance, the higher the cost. If it is a strategic competitive means, we can open a private cloud dedicated to important people for a dedicated cloud album to protect data privacy. However, too high a level of security protection will increase costs, making it difficult for the product to make a profit."

This was also the purpose of his special trip here.

Hollywood can bring huge topics, especially when big bosses are interested in making things bigger, it can bring more attention from the society. There have been too many leaks of private photos of female stars in the past 20 years, since the birth of the Internet, from the PC Internet era to the mobile Internet era.

If Ziwei Cloud can launch a product that ensures the security of user data.

This will be a huge boost to Ziweiyun’s brand and external image.

It is a rare opportunity to step on Apple to get to the top.