Big Time 1958 - Chapter 982

   This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because the network built in the United States is overloaded because of the New York stock market crash. This is more useful than any bomb program. The U.S. network now facing the hackers of the Seventh and Eighth Directorates of the KGB is in an unprecedented state of vulnerability.

“It has entered the American network and planted a logic bomb. Four hours after the opening of the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow, the logic bomb will explode!” The logic bomb in the computer world uses this method. When the computer system is running A certain condition happens to be met, such as when the system time reaches a certain value and the service program receives a certain message, it will trigger the execution of the malicious program and produce abnormal or even catastrophic consequences, such as making a process unable to run normally, deleting important partition, destroy database data, paralyze the system, and so on.

“The Secret Police Corps will come to destroy these computers, we can go!” The middle-aged woman’s chest heaved and was very excited, “It’s been five years, and today we finally avenged the outbreak of the Siberian gas pipeline. Thanks to the motherland, justice may come. Late, but definitely not missing.”

   All the network experts who participated in the operation pushed the keyboard forward at the same time and left the villa without reluctance. It took them a few years to get used to the American network coding skillfully, and finally it was time for revenge. When this day came, the boulders in the hearts of the network experts who had been under heavy pressure for five years finally fell.

   The evacuation went as smoothly as mercury poured, and another group of people took over the jobs of experts on these networks. Open the box and take out the Soviet-like C4, commonly known as the red plasticine in the middle, and meticulously bury the detonator to detonate the villa to achieve the effect of destroying the corpse and destroying the traces. The stability of the red plasticine is a little worse, but it is still very safe, and its power exceeds that produced in the United States. C4…

  Including the local militants all evacuated far away, with an earth-shattering loud noise, the magnificent villa was instantly shrouded in smoke, and when the smoke dissipated, it had become a piece of rubble…

   Today’s world network, whether American or Soviet, is in an awkward state. Life has replaced part of the manpower, but it is far from the invulnerability of later generations. The U.S. stock market crash caused the network to run slowly, and the delay time has reached more than six hours. This golden opportunity gave Soviet network experts a chance to plant a logic bomb.

   “Everything is out of control,” The New York Times reported. Six hours after the crash of the New York Stock Exchange, on the day of the crash, there was an extremely strong reaction from all walks of life in the United States, with numerous comments on radio, television and newspapers. Only at this time did Americans know that today’s New York Stock Exchange had an unprecedented crash.

The overwhelming coverage of    makes Americans in a state of daze feel that their eyes are not enough. Many people who still have stocks in their hands hurriedly finished dressing and walked out of their homes, looking for all the places where they could receive information, wanting to know if they were destitute now. If there is such a thing as popularity in this era, I believe that the United States has already been destroyed. burnt.

“Oh, there is a trapeze who can’t take the blow.” A decadent man who looked at the opposite skyscraper with a telescope muttered to himself. The telescope in front of him followed the trajectory of a parabola until a living person turned into a lump of meat. Sauce. Today, this investor has also been hit hard, and his wealth in the past ten years has been lost…

   But isn’t it? It doesn’t matter, as a Soviet civil servant with a double salary, the money he loses is all the company’s. The word “dead end” has nothing to do with him, and the company’s executives can’t blame him, and it’s not that other funds are rising. He is the only one responsible. If the funds are lost, the law is not responsible for the public.

   Some stocks in the Great Crash had negligible gains and were submerged in a sea of ​​falling all the way. Even the trader in this sigh did not know that his motherland was hunting for the bottom and took advantage of this opportunity.

The entire collapse has been raging in the United States, and quickly spread to other countries, Japan, Australia, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, but in Athens, Greece, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece Florakis came forward to warn, “Some international Speculators want to affect the stability of Greece, and I must warn again that Greece is responsible for the financial health of the entire socialist camp and has enough strength to resist risks. Any malicious financier must understand that Greece is not in There are many countries involved in the battle.”

US President Reagan immediately recalled the visiting Treasury Secretary Baker in West Germany and the Federal Reserve Greenspan in the field to closely monitor the development of the situation and discuss countermeasures together; John Phelan of the New York Stock Exchange claimed that I hope this situation will not continue. , and other relevant members have also made speeches to stabilize market sentiment.

“We can’t let the stock market crash continue, and more than 800 billion US dollars evaporate in an instant. This is a heavy loss that we can’t afford. At this time, the only thing we can trust is the unity of the major companies. As long as we jointly announce that we will buy back our shares If the confidence of Americans is restored, we will be able to get through this crisis.” Reagan was also caught off guard by the stock market crash, which broke out too suddenly and made it impossible for people to respond.

   Treasury Secretary Baker and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan nodded. At this time, we can only rely on the unity of capitalists. It is often easier for capitalists to unite because of their common interests. We should be sure to survive this crisis.

On Tuesday morning, banks stopped extending credit to professional brokers and traders, fearing they would go bankrupt and not get their loans back, and professional brokers didn’t have enough cash to pay margins to exchanges to keep trades flowing because they Excessive stock purchases were made on Monday to stem the decline.

“How do you think Reagan will be rescued? Of course, it is the intervention of Wall Street. Do you really think that Reagan likes small government, tax cuts, and free development will not use the state to rescue the market? Does he still seem to be dying?” Sheloff said indifferently, ” I’m not too worried about the stock exchange in Athens, it’s billed in rubles. It’s an independent exchange, and Reagan wouldn’t put out the fire so easily!”

   “Tomorrow Comrade Tikhonov will officially announce that the Soviet Union will sell off all its foreign exchange reserves, and will no longer continue to use dollars in the future. Instead, it will reserve francs and marks!” Serov narrowed his eyes and said, “All Warsaw Pact countries will act together.”

   “Will the Americans think that we are the ones doing the trick and say that we planned the stock market crash?” Tikhonov thought for a moment and said, “Wouldn’t this help Reagan stabilize the current situation in the United States?”

“When is this? This stock market crash has proved the instability of the financial industry. This is a better excuse to give up the dollar. Who let us take advantage of the Americans when they were embarrassed?” Shelov remained unmoved. “Are we still going to help the United States rescue the market? There is no need to pretend to be affectionate. Within two years, take the opportunity to kill the United States…”

   The US dollar is useless to the Soviet Union. It is better to exchange some other currencies from Western Europe. In fact, the US dollar is far from the only one in the foreign exchange reserves. The Soviet Union reserves a lot of marks and francs.

Early the next morning, Reagan, who had not slept all night, hosted a press conference at the White House and said to the anxiously waiting reporters, “This stock market crash is completely incommensurate with our healthy economy in the United States. Our economy is very stable and there is no risk. , can only be regarded as an emergency, and I already have a preliminary response.”

   At the same time as Reagan held a press conference, Fed Chairman Greenspan also expressed the same view. Subsequently, major commercial banks in the United States have lowered interest rates. In the joint assurances of all parties, after the opening of the NYSE the next day, falling support continued for a short while before it began to stabilize.

   “The logic bomb will explode in five and a half hours. Let me make a foreshadowing for this bomb first.” Because of the time difference, the Soviet Union was still in the dark at this time. However, reporters from major Moscow newspapers, who had a premonition that there was a big news, still gathered in the Kremlin to wait for the appearance of the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

“Some financiers are hostile to the Athens Exchange and want to transfer the contradictions of the capitalist countries to the socialist countries. As the leader of a country, I myself cannot allow this to happen! In order to prevent the Soviet Union’s foreign exchange reserves from being stolen The dilution also casts doubt on the credit of the US dollar.” Shelov paused here, looking at the expressions of all the reporters present, “Selling the 180 billion US dollars in the foreign exchange reserves of the Soviet Union, before I announced this news, I had already Having communicated with the allies, this time the collective decision has been made to take a common position on this matter.”

In the following hour, ten countries including the GDR, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Romania and the Soviet Union announced that the US dollar would not be included in their foreign exchange reserves from now on, and the news immediately spread. The world, and soon Chile, announced that it was no longer keeping the dollar as a reserve currency.

This news is like a blockbuster, causing a great uproar all over the world. At this time, the New York Stock Exchange has been open for an hour, and the expected collapse has not occurred. Reagan, who escaped the disaster, is secretly glad that this time there was no surprise. survived the crisis.

  When the first American newspaper reported that eleven countries abandoned the US dollar, a total of more than 200 billion funds would be returned to the United States, which immediately caused a major earthquake in the entire stock market, “You like to eat, right? You will die…”

  The sparse sell-off continued. Four and a half hours later, the sell-off increased sharply. Large-scale selling began to occur from retail investors. The explosion of the logic bomb has arrived. Suddenly, a larger-scale sell-off than yesterday began.