Rebirth: I Want to Surf

Beijing, Yinyin's alma mater, Beijing University of Science and Technology.

In October, another crop of leeks has entered the school, with a clear and stupid look in their eyes, waiting happily to be harvested by the 99 department.

It will be in the evening, after class and after dinner, a few freshmen in the dormitory are watching "Inception" around a laptop.

I bought a pirated DVD and stuffed it in to watch.

In later generations, this ancient movie-watching behavior may not exist anymore.

When the top was spinning at the end, before everyone had time to comment on the movie, a pop-up window popped up suddenly.

"A letter to the user?"

"what?"

The owner of the computer, a clean and gentle boy, clicked on it casually, only to see a page with a gray background, and the title was quite alarmist: "User Privacy Is Over the Sky"!

"In recent years, various black and gray forces have been eyeing private information.

Some netizens chatted online, and their nude photos were stolen and blackmailed. The phone numbers and home addresses of more than 600 artists were leaked online, and they were forced to change their numbers collectively. A well-known host had to bid farewell to his career as a host because his private photos were stolen and widely circulated on the Internet...

Statistics show that Chinese people receive an average of 3 malicious calls every day, 15 harassing text messages and 30 spam text messages every week.

There are many ways to disclose private information, and the bad behavior of some software in the computer is one of them. The vicious competition of the Internet and the desire for commercial interests have caused some companies to abandon the basic moral bottom line.

We have received a lot of complaints recently and found that a well-known chat software serving 600 million Internet users in China is secretly scanning various information in the background of users, including but not only:

Friends list, chat history, mailbox, browsing history, online banking files, download information, video files, etc.!

There is a famous saying in "Spider-Man": With great power, comes great responsibility.

Qihoo 360 is a small company with only a few hundred people, but we are in the field of network security, and we have this responsibility to protect everyone's privacy and security.

In this regard, we launched 360 Privacy Protector, which is just a small piece of software that requires no effort to install, but it can fully expose all voyeuristic behaviors..."

"..."

The gentle boy's face paled immediately, and before he could react, a roommate who owed him shouted, "What downloads?"

"Yo, the download is over, open it and have a look!"

A small software, 360 Privacy Protector, was opened just like that.

"This tool will monitor and record other software's scanning of private files in your computer!"

The following is QQ!

Immediately afterwards, swipe down and pull down:

"A total of xxx files have been viewed by QQ, of which xx items may involve your privacy." As the number keeps beating, the drop-down list becomes more and more, more and more.

"C:\\program files\\..."

"C:\\program files\\..."

"D:\\Study Materials\\Ma Zhe\\"Critique of Pure Reason"\\Hidden Folder\\Beauty TutorのKiss, I am a part-time college student and my wife is in a convenience store, just using my mouth is not an affair..."

Alas! ! !

The dormitory booed.

"You kid is usually prudish, but you are so dirty behind your back?"

The boy blushed immediately, and the veins on his forehead burst out, arguing: "Watching movies can't be considered pornography, but sex education, can it be considered pornography?"

A series of incomprehensible words, such as "Tandi wife" and "investigator", caused everyone to laugh.

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"I applied for a card a while ago, and not long after, a scammer called and knew my name clearly! I just want to ask who leaked my personal information?"

"Isn't this very common? I forgot about spam messages before, how did they know our phone number?"

"A truth that has been hidden for a long time, everyone wake up, we have long been in an era when the whole people are running naked."

"Chinese people's privacy is worthless!"

"I installed a 360 privacy protector yesterday and found that my online banking information was scanned by QQ. If this is true, I am going to sue!"

A large number of users began to upload screenshots on major platforms, all of which detected that QQ was scanning files.

In 2018, Li Yanhong said something:

"The Chinese are willing to trade privacy for convenience, and in many cases they are, so we can do something with data."

After saying it, it was sprayed wildly by countless netizens.

But in fact, quite a few people don't care about privacy at all, as long as their reputation, property, and safety are not affected.

Since China entered the Internet age, privacy has been a big issue.

Yao Yuan's first pot of gold was to steal the client list of the newspaper and send mass text messages. At that time, public opinion focused on "spam text messages" and no one cared about privacy.

Because I didn't realize it at the time.

Now that it has been developed for more than ten years, various industries are still stealing privacy, and many people still don't care.

Qihoo 360's exposure caused an uproar because the behavior of secretly scanning documents made netizens feel like "being spied on privately", "property danger", and "being monitored".

In other words, feel violated.

What about another way? Send a dozen eggs, register personal information, and you can see how many people come over.

Zhou Hongyi is also a master at manipulating public opinion, and directly maximizes the feeling of being violated. Those who surf the Internet, download small movies, like to use online banking, like to chat, and store important information... They are the first to jump out and open scold.

Immediately afterwards, it expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and became a prairie fire overnight.

...

Tencent headquarters.

Looking at 360's statement and the angry netizens, Xiao Ma felt flustered. The other party was not as subdued as imagined, but chose to resist, or use this big killer.

In the past few years, QQ had no reputation at all due to Yao Yuan's tireless stigmatization, but now it has been added by Zhou Hongyi.

Tencent has never been good at public relations, so it came up with three measures:

The first step: pop-up statement!

"Tencent has never snooped on users' privacy. Users are requested to distinguish right from wrong and not be deceived by a company's security threats!"

Step Two: Sue!

Sue 360 ​​for unfair competition, request 360 to stop the infringement, make a public apology and make compensation.

The third step: combine vertical and horizontal!

Zhou Hongyi offended a large number of people. Tencent approached Kingsoft, Baidu, Aoyou, and Keniu, and issued a joint statement: "Resolutely oppose 360's unfair competition, and call for strengthening the self-discipline of the Internet industry..."

...

"Hahaha!"

In Beijing, Lao Zhou watched Tencent's counterattack and laughed: "Weak, too weak! They didn't understand the point of the matter at all, thinking they could scold me to death by asking for help?

The key to this battle lies in the netizens, in the hearts of the people!

Who the hell cares if you make a joint statement? "

He is too aware of his own advantages, that is, to put himself in a disadvantaged position and create a tragic image of Dragon Quest. Netizens will naturally choose who to support.

"I can also play with public opinion, it's not just the 99 family!"

In the face of a strong enemy, Lao Zhou is full of pride, and he has the momentum of getting braver as he fights.

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