Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 518: Planning a Counterattack
In Ke Lan's plan, the first step of counterattack is to use the channels of these major media to release the full version of this video.
Of course, some necessary tricks are still indispensable... For example, the title of this video would not be one of those excuses or whitewashing types. Compared with the serious official explanation, a video titled "Transport Plane Stewardess Handcuffs and Hood Video Full Version 15 minutes and 26 seconds Unabridged" would obviously be more explosive.
When people click on the video out of curiosity and find that it doesn't contain what they want to see, Ke Lan will strike while the iron is hot and release Colonel Roland's bribery record and Anaheim's internal financial report - of course, the latter requires Ke Lan to use some " tricks " to obtain it.
Ke Lan would not directly point the finger at the Morgan Consortium and tell the public that it was the Morgan Consortium that wanted to discredit him - if he did so, the Morgan Consortium would simply reject it outright and then turn the tables, and the situation would become mired in a stalemate... For the Morgan Consortium, as long as they could drag it out and allow the adverse impact of the edited video to ferment and heat up among the public, they would have won.
Although this "win" cannot remove Ke Lan from the position of person in charge of the ruins, the impact on his personal reputation is immeasurable, and it may even implicate the God Hunting Group, Zofia Soma, Ye Yan and the Ye family behind him.
This impact will not only be reflected in a series of data such as stocks and revenue, but also has a force that cannot be ignored outside the data.
Ke Lan still remembers that three years ago, a company that produced auto parts went bankrupt due to fraud, and two executives were thrown into prison. One of them served his one and a half year sentence peacefully, while the other died unexpectedly in the fourth month of his imprisonment .
The cause of death was rectal laceration and excessive bleeding... According to the official news, the prisoner's rectal laceration was caused by severe constipation, and no prison guard or prisoner was punished for his death.
This guy who died of a rectal rupture had exposed a copper smelting scandal a few years ago. Although the case was eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence, it does not mean that this matter will be forgotten as time goes by.
Before this man went to jail, he often received anonymous emails containing dead rats, razor blades, or excrement. He reported the case to the sheriff's department, but the department was completely perfunctory and did not conduct any further investigation after making a record. If this man had not been the only son of the president of the auto parts company, he would have probably lost his job in the month the scandal broke out.
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What Ke Lan has to do is to publish these pieces of evidence one by one, and then guide the public to infer the "correct answer" by themselves... In this process, the evidence and the conclusion are not the most important. What is important is the guidance process.
This problem has been plaguing rulers of all generations since the birth of human society. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a famous saying as “It is more difficult to guard against the people’s mouths than to guard against the rivers.”
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Two days later, Fleet Zero.
In addition to the nominal flagship "Aguna Kotor", the second flagship of this fleet is the only "Gangfeng-class" aircraft carrier battleship "New Dawn" in the fleet. Since the "three-dimensional defense circle" of the S-019 ruins has not been completed, Ke Lan has spent the past two days on this New Dawn.
However, the conditions on the flagship No. 2 could definitely not be described as "making do". Apart from anything else, the three meals a day alone were of a standard that could reach that of a star hotel - this place was too close to the Ark, and all the ingredients were directly shipped from the Ark by transport ships. After the staff in the logistics kitchen took the fresh fish out of the ice water and thawed them, the ingredients could even jump up from the chopping board.
After enjoying a meal of garlic-flavored grilled fish with rich oil and red sauce, Ke Lan wiped his mouth, adjusted the angle of his chair, and pulled a keyboard in front of him.
"Key here!"
A holographic virtual screen more than three meters long unfolded in front of him. Pages of various forums, news portals, and online communities were divided into hundreds of independent windows of different sizes, densely stacked on the screen.
Thirty minutes ago, the prepared materials and the complete version of the video had been released by major media outlets. Now it was time to test the results.
Just as Ke Lan expected, the hype of the "unabridged version of the video" coupled with the traffic from major mainstream media pushed these things to second place on the popularity list in just thirty minutes, with the popularity index approaching that of the edited version of the video, which ranked first.
It is human nature to like to join in the fun, and on the Internet, this behavior is called "eating melons."
The things that were revealed by the Morgan Consortium had already been read countless times by netizens if they had not been banned. Although the discussion is still very heated, everyone has become more or less aesthetically fatigued.
But now there are new revelations related to this, and they are released by several major mainstream media with the so-called official media. In addition, they use titles that are completely opposite to the daily style of mainstream media. This topic has been ignited instantly, and even the edited video, whose click growth has begun to reach a bottleneck, has seen a second surge in views.
Ke Lan took a quick look and found that the main opinions on the Internet were divided into three types: one was that people firmly believed that the edited version of the video was the truth and that the so-called "complete version" of the official media was a disguised way of whitewashing the parties involved; one was that people smelled a conspiracy and began to analyze the connection between the video, bribery, and the bidding for the ruins; and the other, which was the most popular type, believed that neither side was a good thing and that the dog-eat-dog relationship would only end in a mouthful of fur. Regardless of which viewpoint it was, the vast majority of people already knew one thing:
The Morgan Consortium, a competitor of the Ye Consortium and which missed out on the S-019 ruins development project, got involved in this matter.
Colonel Roland's account records, the relationship between the "Blitz Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Company" and Anaheim and the Morgan Consortium... anyone with a little bit of common sense can guess that there must be some unspeakable secrets involved.
The Morgan Consortium did not make any statement about this. Instead, Anaheim Electronics held an emergency press conference, claiming that the incident had nothing to do with them and that it was the "Blitz Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Company" that took the initiative to bribe privately in order to win the bidding project... They also formally asked all the executives of "Blitz" to accept an audit and re-count the accounts...
But before their self-directed drama could begin, the military issued a statement: there was irrefutable evidence that Colonel Roland Walter had accepted bribes and the case had been transferred to the military court for processing, but Fleet Zero had never had any connection with the "Blitz Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Company" and the "Blitz Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Company" had never participated in any related bidding.
Although this is just a normal statement, we should know that the military has always been extremely low-key in online media. The release of this statement is a powerful assist for Ke Lan.
Anaheim was immediately confused. They wanted to prove that they had nothing to do with the briber of Blitz. However, a reporter's question stumped their spokesperson: "Excuse me, since Blitz did not participate in the tender held by the military, why did the company bribe Colonel Roland? Even if Blitz participated in the tender, why didn't it bribe the officer in charge of the tender? Would bribing an officer in a combat unit instead of a logistics department have any effect? The third question is that the Blitz Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Company itself is not very large. Two million credit points is not a small amount of money for the company. How did the executives of Blitz withdraw such a huge sum of money from the company account without the approval of Anaheim, the parent company?"
This reporter was from the Ark's largest news media, the Ark Official TV Station, but these three questions were designed by Ke Lan herself. With Anaheim's preparation, they would not be able to answer these "three soul-searching questions", especially after the military issued that statement.
For the Morgan Consortium, the best option at this time is to "sacrifice the car to save the driver" - let Anaheim admit that it used unfair means in the competition for the S-019 ruins exploration quota. But Ke Lan knew very well that they would never do this. Although this move could keep the Morgan Consortium out of the matter, all previous efforts would be wasted with Anaheim's confession. As the largest shareholder of Anaheim, they not only failed to prevent Ye from obtaining the ruins exploration rights, but also faced the upcoming huge losses.
It's like stealing a chicken but losing the rice...
Just as Ke Lan was smilingly waiting for how the Anaheim spokesperson would answer this question, the live broadcast of the press conference was suddenly interrupted - not only was the screen black here for Ke Lan, but all the media that were broadcasting the press conference also encountered the same situation.
"As expected, you're still trying to make a last-ditch effort... buying time by unplugging the network cable?"
Soon, Ke Lan received news from the press conference front line - the entire Anaheim company was attacked by hackers and the press conference was urgently interrupted.
"Hacker attack? Attacking themselves?" Ke Lan couldn't help but laugh. However, despite his complaints, he still contacted the official White Hat organization as soon as possible and asked them to assist Anaheim in defense.
"We have contacted people from the Anaheim network department." A white hat told Ke Lan, "They told us that they have their own technical staff and do not need our assistance. In addition, the company's database involves a lot of confidential technology, which cannot be seen by outsiders."
"Okay, I understand. Thank you for your hard work." Ke Lan responded politely and ended the call.
Since you refused when I asked White Hat to help you, I might as well just invade directly... Ke Lan's ten fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard.
Not long after, he found the attacker who was wreaking havoc in Anaheim's internal database. What made Ke Lan speechless was that after entering Anaheim's database, the attacker felt as familiar as if he had returned home. All the useless information, abandoned cases, and bills were deleted, while the useful information and drawings were encrypted and transferred to other places.
Ke Lan had seen hackers who simply destroyed things after invading, and hackers who performed operations as precise as surgery, taking only what they wanted without touching anything else and leaving no traces at all, but he had never seen this kind of person.
It's like a thief breaks into your home, takes away all the genuine items in your collection, and smashes all the fakes to pieces - not only does he smash them to pieces, he also sweeps up the pieces with a broom and dustpan...
Is this reasonable?
But then again, assuming that the hacker was really Anaheim's enemy, then Anaheim's losses this time were really heavy... There was no backup of these precious technical data, and if they were just emptied out, it would take who knows how many years it would take to restore to the state before the attack.
Ke Lan thought for a while, but he did not stop the hacker's actions. Instead, he directly locked the hacker's IP address and launched an attack.
Besieging Wei to save Zhao is also a rescue operation. As for whether the "gold, silver and treasures" snatched by "Wei State" from "Zhao State" will be destroyed in the process, that is not something that Ke Lan can control.
Ke Lan used the simplest, most primitive, but also the most difficult to defend against attack method.
"DDoS attack".
"DDoS attack", whose Chinese name is "distributed denial of service attack", refers to the means of launching a large number of meaningless requests to the target host in a short period of time, consuming the opponent's host resources on a large scale, thereby paralyzing it.
DDoS attacks are one of the simplest means of network attacks, but their biggest disadvantage is that the attacker also needs to consume a large amount of network resources, which is a routine that hurts the enemy by a thousand but hurts oneself by eight hundred.
Generally, hackers would use Trojan programs to hijack a large number of home computers as their own "zombies" to launch DDoS attacks, but at this time, Ke Lan did not need any "zombies" at all.
He has control over the entire Zero Fleet... and the high-performance brains of all the warships in the fleet...
