Chapter 831
Yoo-hyun clicked his tongue as he looked at the report filled with technical terms.
“Wow! You crazy kid. You made a whole chip just for analysis?”
That’s what he did.
The genius who had brought his company to the top by successfully creating a smartphone modem and AP, had also replicated the Huawei communication modem chip that went into the base station.
Thanks to that, he was able to discover the backdoor that even the CIA had not found yet.
Ding.
After carefully examining the contents, Yoo-hyun immediately called Hyun Jin-geon Gun, who was in the US.
After a few rings, he heard the voice of his friend and partner on the other end of the phone.
-What’s up, haven’t you left work yet?
“Are you kidding? I saw this at home. How can you send me something like this so early in the morning?”
-I just came to work a little early. I sent it to you because the results came out.
“You shouldn’t say it so easily. How did you find it?”
-I reverse-engineered the firmware and found a way for the root user to access it via SSH protocol. I attached the detailed method in the attached document.
“I checked it out, but it was hard.”
-Anyway. I found it, but it’s not conclusive evidence. The backdoor doesn’t necessarily mean that someone hacked in from the outside.
Conclusive evidence?
No one had found that until a massive hacking occurred.
If they had known sooner, they could have prevented the incident that plunged the world into chaos.
“Is there a way to get the evidence?”
-We have to catch the moment when the data is being extracted from the Huawei equipment installed all over the world.
“That’s not easy, is it?”
-We don’t know the timing. Even if we did, China is an internet-controlled country, so it’s hard to track the data inside.
Hyun Jin-geon Gun’s words revealed the difficulty of tracing.
China was, strictly speaking, an internet-controlled country.
It was hard to peek inside from the outside because they used a huge closed network.
It was the same principle as why it was hard to break into Hansung’s internal intranet from the outside.
Apart from that, Yoo-hyun sincerely admired him.
“Still, it’s amazing. You did something that no one else could do.”
-Why are you praising me so much? And I couldn’t have done it without Doha’s help.
“Doha?”
-Yeah. Doha’s hacking skills are really amazing. I wondered how to use the backdoor I found, but he cracked it in no time. He could really mess up anywhere he wanted.
-Bro, Huawei offered me another scout. They said they would pay me twice as much this time. Maybe I should become a Trojan horse.
Yoo-hyun chuckled as he recalled what Nadoha had said a while ago.
“I see… So that’s why.”
-What do you mean?
“Nothing, nothing.”
-You’re being stingy. What are you going to do now? It doesn’t seem like there’s anything else to dig into.
“I have something else prepared.”
He was already investigating the people who were trying to move to China, including Vice President Woo Jung-cheol, at Hansung.
His actions would be determined by the outcome of this.
Hyun Jin-geon Gun spoke to Yoo-hyun, who was briefly reviewing the situation.
-Okay. Let me know if you need anything else. I think I should get up soon.
“Hyun Jin-geon.”
-What?
“Thank you, really. It must have been hard.”
-Don’t mention it. I’ll be in Korea soon, so let’s see each other then.
Hyun Jin-geon Gun casually hung up the phone.
Was it because he was still drunk?
He felt a tingling in his chest as he looked at his friend’s name on the screen.
“I’m really grateful.”
There was not much benefit for Hyun Jin-geon Gun to analyze the Huawei communication equipment for Yoo-hyun.
But he rolled up his sleeves and produced a great result.
He had always been like that.
Hyun Jin-geon Gun willingly gave up his shares when he founded JK Communication.
He also exclusively provided a game-changing modem when Yoo-hyun made the Hansung phone.
It was the same when Yoo-hyun presented a new vision for Reverb.
He did not hesitate to give advice on building a cloud data center with blockchain, and offered a server with high-performance GPUs (graphics processing units) for complex calculations.
In the process, he also made a bold move to acquire a stake in Nvidia, a GPU specialist manufacturer, with Yoo-hyun.
“What a guy.”
He was always immersed in what he was interested in.
Thanks to that, the data center of the newly established Reverb Alliance was able to provide not only blockchain operations, but also image processing, natural language processing, machine learning, and other artificial intelligence related services.
He changed the server market from the start.
He did not stop there.
He decided to design his own server chip, thinking that he had to go one step further to beat AWS in the competition.
But the chip was so highly integrated that he ran into trouble with the semiconductor production process.
He was planning to visit Korea to coordinate this issue.
How could he sit still in this situation?
Swish.
Yoo-hyun picked up his phone without hesitation.
He saw the name of a precious colleague who could help him solve the tangled problem on the screen.
A few days later.
Yoo-hyun climbed to the rooftop of the Future Tower with two iced americanos in his hand.
The man sitting in front of the table took the coffee that Yoo-hyun handed him with a haughty posture.
“Hmm, the ice is well crushed to my taste. Thank you, President Han.”
“Director Park, please be more serious.”
“Really? Do I look like a corporate CEO like this?”
The man who frowned and pretended to be serious was Park Seung-woo, Yoo-hyun’s mentor.
Yoo-hyun teased him, who had returned from a business trip to Hansung Semiconductor a while ago.
“How dare I compare myself to you? You are much cooler, mentor.”
“As expected of my mentee. There’s a reason why you’re doing well.”
“This is also thanks to your teachings, mentor.”
“Puahaha! I did well with my mentee.”
Park Seung-woo laughed incessantly, feeling good.
Deep wrinkles formed on his thin face.
Yoo-hyun, who was sitting across from him, asked.
“But why did you lose so much weight?”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. You look pale too. Is something wrong?”
“Just… I’m happy with my married life. Too happy. Ha!”
For some reason, Park Seung-woo’s sigh seemed unusually deep.
Park Seung-woo, the deputy director of Hansung Semiconductor, married Kang Hye-jin, the manager he met through the acquisition of Shinwa Semiconductor last spring.
He still remembered the sight of him entering the wedding hall with a loud cheer of hurray.
Yoo-hyun answered with a faint expression.
“You look really happy.”
“I wish you would get married too.”
“It sounds like you mean it.”
Park Seung-woo was not deterred by Yoo-hyun’s formal reply.
“Try it. Then you’ll understand how I feel.”
“Um… I’ll have to talk to Da-hye about it.”
“Don’t do that. She’ll hear it right away.”
They had become quite close after meeting a few times as a couple, and the women often contacted each other.
Yoo-hyun teased Park Seung-woo, who looked serious.
“Are you just saying that?”
“That’s why I brought this.”
Swish.
Yoo-hyun opened the envelope that Park Seung-woo handed over.
“What is this?”
“It’s a document on the design process of JK Communication’s server chip. The back page is the opinion from Ilsung Semiconductor.”
“Ilsung? You could have just given me the data, why did you go there yourself?”
“I’m a veteran in the semiconductor field, you know. It’s much faster to talk to them than you going there yourself. I have some connections in Ilsung too.”
“…”
Yoo-hyun stared blankly at him, and Park Seung-woo gave him a faint smile.
It was Hansung Semiconductor’s fault that they failed to mass-produce JK Communication’s server chip properly.
They lacked experience in fine processing, and the development of new processes was too late.
They wasted too much time because of that.
They had to pay compensation, of course.
But the bigger problem was that they caused trouble for JK Communication, which they had trusted for a long time, and their beloved mentee’s business.
The only solution?
The support of Ilsung Semiconductor, which had the world’s top production technology.
If they shared the whole review result, they could shorten the initial setup time.
Park Seung-woo pushed it with a good excuse, and that’s how it came to this.
Of course, it was possible because Chairman Shin Kyung-wook’s full support was behind it.
Sigh.
Park Seung-woo said to Yoo-hyun, who was looking at the last page without a word.
“They said it’s possible, but it doesn’t mean they’ll accept it.”
“You’ve done so much for me, I have to make it happen.”
“It won’t be easy. From Ilsung’s perspective, they must be annoyed by JK Communication, which only supplied modems and APs to us. Besides, Ilsung is negative about the River Alliance itself.”
“That’s true.”
He had to admit it.
Yoo-hyun worked hard, but Ilsung’s joining was still uncertain.
They had already checked the technical part, but they still looked at each other.
The reason was Chairman Choi Jin-cheol.
-Chairman Choi is a tiger on the outside, but a fox on the inside. He’ll keep you hanging until the end. Now, what are you going to do?
Former Chairman Shin Hyun-ho seemed to know how to change Chairman Choi’s mind.
But he didn’t tell him, he just watched from a distance.
He felt a little bitter, but he couldn’t help it.
It was Yoo-hyun’s responsibility to bring Ilsung into the River Alliance, and to use Ilsung Semiconductor to meet the production schedule of the next-generation server chip.
Park Seung-woo tapped Yoo-hyun’s shoulder, who was lost in thought.
“Well, anyway, I did my best. To be honest, I wonder if I had to go this far.”
“Thank you for your concern.”
“Just words?”
“Of course not. How about a drink tonight?”
Yoo-hyun raised his eyebrows and pretended to drink, and Park Seung-woo grinned and laughed.
“Deal! Why do you think I came here? Ha ha! Let’s go all night.”
“Are you sure you don’t have to go home? Your wife will be waiting for you.”
“Where does she dare to nag me when I’m working? Right?”
“That’s a dangerous remark.”
“I’m just saying, I’m just saying. Mentee, you can look forward to it. Tonight, your mentor will give you a proper lesson.”
He seemed to be very thirsty for alcohol.
His dark complexion brightened up and his eyes sparkled.
Yoo-hyun was also glad.
“It would be nice if Jun-sik was here too.”
“That kid is still in Japan. He must be having fun with Kim Executive Director.”
Jang Jun-sik, the manager who was responsible for the success of the Japanese expansion, had secured his position, and Kim Hyun-min, the senior manager, had achieved the feat of being promoted to executive director.
It was an ironic situation that the scoundrel who looked like he had no attachment to the company advanced faster than anyone else.
Who else was there?
“Oh, should I call Kim Young-gil Team Leader?”
“Leave him alone. He’s busy with his kid.”
“That’s right. It’s been a month since he was born, right?”
“Don’t even mention it. What’s so great about uploading pictures every day. Tsk tsk.”
Park Seung-woo shook his head and clicked his tongue.
Ziiing. Ziiing.
His phone, which was placed on the table, rang and his wife’s name popped up.
Park Seung-woo flipped his phone over without even checking it.
“Isn’t that your wife’s message?”
“It’s fine. She’s probably trying to pick a fight over something trivial.”
“You should check it anyway. And let her know you’ll be late.”
“A man doesn’t have to do that…”
Park Seung-woo picked up his phone, waving his hand as if it was nothing.
“What? What? What?”
Suddenly, his pupils dilated and his hand trembled.