Reboot 2003

Chapter 212 120: Confidentiality Requirement (Two in One)

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The shelves shook, and a wine bottle with a ribbon on it fell to the ground. The bald Bex held Old Xu by his collar and stared at him with bloodshot eyes.

"You've hurt me so much, Xu, I'm sorry I trust you so much!" He lowered his voice and said to Lao Xu with intimidation.

Naturally, Lao Xu didn't understand why he was angry: "I don't understand what you mean..."

Bex's eyes were bloodshot: "You know what I'm talking about, you leaked our business secrets!"

"what are you doing?"

Lao Xu didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't fight back anyway. Lao Chen quickly came up to stop him. Xu Lingling had never seen such a scene before, so she subconsciously turned to look at Chen Qin, but then she saw Chen Qin next to him holding the man next to him. The old man looked at her and asked her to send him out.

The incident happened suddenly. Xu Lingling quickly took her grandma back upstairs. Before the house was vacated, Chen Qin asked them to wait.

Lao Chen stepped forward to break up the fight, and then more people in suits came over from the elevator: "Mr. Bex, what's going on?" They were surprised to find that Bex from Goldman Sachs Group actually got into a fight...

In short, these people quickly separated the two people who were arguing. Lao Xu was let go and felt very unhappy, but the matter was not over yet.

Bex patted his messed up suit and glared at Lao Xu, still angry after being separated.

The people who broke up the fight were also ICBC staff waiting for the elevator. When they asked, they knew what was going on——

He used exaggerated body language and said to the people at ICBC: "The only person who knows yesterday's trade secret is him, except you! If it hadn't been leaked internally by you, who else would have known it? It's only been a day since it was released. …”

Lao Xu was shocked. He had never done anything to leak secrets, but when he pressed him, the other party refused to provide any explanation at all. The matter seemed to have gone a bit wrong.

Fortunately, Xiao Chen was calm enough and asked him to call the company and the cooperating firm. At this time, the people from ICBC had already discussed what to do.

They invited Lao Xu to the lounge on the first floor of the hotel.

"Mr. Xu, I'm really sorry. We won't do anything to you. As you can see, our bank has some cooperation projects with Goldman Sachs, but one of the confidential documents was leaked last night. Mr. Bakers was very angry. We Your cooperation is now needed."

These people seemed to be just low-level salesmen and had little experience in this kind of thing. It happened that Lao Xu had also contacted the company's legal affairs. The legal affairs department didn't understand the situation yet, but the general idea of ​​​​dealing with this kind of problem was very clear, so Lao Xu Xu replied: "I have not disclosed your bank's secrets. If you need help, I can help. But if you can't explain the actual situation, then I can't help you."

Several people from ICBC went to discuss countermeasures again, and came back after a while and said: "Because it involves the confidentiality of our bank, we can't tell you the matter in detail now. If you are in a hurry to leave, we ask to check your laptop and Electronic equipment."

Lao Xu felt uncomfortable, but it was unlucky enough to encounter this incident today. Even if the manager of Goldman Sachs bumped into him intentionally just now, it was wrong, but the company had also issued a document before, saying that he should be polite to people in the bank when encountering problems. He had to be as tolerant as possible, and this time he could only cooperate as much as possible.

Just as he was about to agree, Xiao Chen next to him jumped up: "That's not possible. My Uncle Xu is in charge of several companies and has thousands of people under his command. Your secrets are secrets, and Uncle Xu's secrets are also secrets. How can you do that?" Just tell you to watch it?"

Lao Chen quickly pulled up his sleeves and asked Chen Qin to sit down, but Lao Xu thought about it and said, "It really doesn't work. I have the company's communication files on my computer. You can't search my personal belongings at will."

The people from ICBC discussed it and began to promise that they would not mess around or modify any files copied from the computer. However, Lao Xu made the decision and gradually came to his senses.

"That won't work. First of all, you said I leaked the secret. Where did I leak the secret? What business secrets did I leak? When I attended your party yesterday, I didn't make any confidentiality promises. You are now seizing my computer. I won't I will cooperate with you."

Lao Xu was a little confused because he was bumped inexplicably just now, but that was all he could do. But now these people are coming again and again, and he can't stand it anymore.

He doesn't do bad things, and he's not afraid of ghosts knocking on his door. Now, as an overseas company owner who came to China to travel, he is being asked to search his computer for no reason. Even if the bank people can't afford to offend him, this is a bit too bullying.

The more Lao Xu thought about it, the more confident he became. His response, which was neither humble nor arrogant, could be said to be reasonable and well-founded. The ICBC people had no choice but to go outside to discuss what to do. After Lao Xu asked the lawyer for verification, the lawyer asked him to I gave the other party an ultimatum, saying that I can wait for you for 20 minutes, otherwise you can discuss it with the company's lawyer, which is considered to throw the problem back to the other party...

"Lingling's father, what's going on?"

Lao Chen was sitting next to him, not knowing what was going on. Lao Xu was no longer worried: "It's okay, just wait for them for a while, it will be fine soon."

Only then did Lao Chen think of business: "Then I'll go see my aunt. She has a bad heart..."

"Lingling is watching." Lao Xu smiled and said, "Just now, Xiao Chen reacted so quickly that I was confused by that person. He also remembered to ask mom to take shelter in advance. He was calmer than me when things happened. It seems that this No. 1 is not for nothing."

Old Xu praised his neighbor Xiao Chen. The incident happened suddenly. Thanks to Xiao Chen's timely response, he first asked the old man and the child to go back to the room to take shelter. Later, Old Xu almost agreed to these people's request, but it was Xiao Chen who reminded him. You cannot give in at will...

However, Lao Xu turned around and patted Xiao Chen on the shoulder, only to find that Xiao Chen's face looked a little ugly at this moment.

Even though everyone was gone, he leaned on the sofa and didn't speak, but his expression was a little...gloomy?
Of course, Lao Xu did not continue thinking in this direction, thinking that Xiao Chen was just a primary school student after all, and maybe he was just scared.

So he and Xiao Chen waited in the lounge, and let Lao Chen go see Xu Lingling and her grandma.

And Chen Qin was sitting on the sofa in the lounge... looking really gloomy.

After all, this incident is indeed a bit sudden - Lao Xu has never done anything bad, so there is nothing to worry about, but Chen Qin is different. He just sent the problem of Goldman Sachs' financial products to ICBC last night, and he has a guilty conscience.

In any case, ICBC wanted to check computers, and the computer they were checking was not Lao Xu's. Lao Xu didn't bring his computer when he came this time. The computer he used belonged to Chen Qin.

And what is in Chen Qin’s computer?

The more recent ones are probably Weibo's marketing plan for this year and the source code of mLinux. Although the file names were changed to 'Super Smash Bros.' and 'Study Materials' respectively, they are not illegal or disciplinary in themselves, but if they are randomly If he just checked it with the security personnel of other companies, where would he put his reputation as Mr. Chen?

Of course, he had considered this matter before. The reason why he was caught now seemed to be a bit of a coincidence, but the matter was still a bit strange.

Goldman Sachs promotes CDOs to ICBC, which is a normal business behavior within the scope of the rules and is not confidential in itself.

Tell ICBC about the risks of CDOs and ask them not to buy financial products from Goldman Sachs. This is not confidential, because those financial data can be found in the market, some are information disclosed by exchanges, and some are compiled by third-party agencies. Information, even if ABX analysis data and some rating information are specially provided within the industry, using part of the information fragments to third parties does not count as infringement of trade secrets, and the verbal agreement between Lao Xu and Da Baldy does not count.

So Chen Qin never expected to be caught checking his computer. This was a bit baffling from the beginning.

But it still happened. The Goldman Sachs manager was so aggressive that he had some vague premonitions. It seemed that this matter was not a simple misunderstanding.

Thinking like this, Chen Qin glanced at the travel bag placed next to him, but he didn't do anything. He just waited in silence with Lao Xu for a while. The people from ICBC came back, and a rough-looking man stood beside them. In the middle, there seemed to be a manager, but this person was actually the one who helped Xu Lingling retrieve her mobile phone yesterday. Today, he was wearing a gray uniform, clustered around the bald man, and burst into the reception room.

Bex was still angry - even though he was the one who hit the person, he was still angry after being forcibly separated, as if someone else had provoked him.Entering the door, Bex looked at Lao Xu condescendingly and ordered straight to the point: "Let them check your computer."

Lao Xu sat on the chair and shook his head. "Please tell me first what you want to check."

"Check the content you leaked." Bex said coldly, "You posted the information I provided you last night on the Internet!"

Lao Xu denied: "I have never done anything like this. If you want me to cooperate, you'd better tell us which piece of information violated which confidentiality contract."

Bex seemed to sneer: "As a trade secret, of course I can't tell you directly, but ICBC and I both know that the secret has been leaked, and you are the only person who has been exposed to this secret."

The ICBC staff nearby did not object, and Lao Xu became increasingly confused: "If it is really so serious, why don't you go to court to sue me?"

Bex stood at the entrance of the lounge, looking sharply at Lao Xu who was sitting in the room with a child. A large number of ICBC and hotel employees were watching outside and inside the door. This time, they put more Suspicious and puzzled eyes were cast on Bakers. Perhaps sensing the gradual change in the atmosphere, the ICBC people also tried to ask: "Mr. Bakers, since you think it is him, he talked to you last night." Did you get any information during the process?”

"Of course it can only be him, there's no doubt about it," Becks said.

The man in charge asked: "Mr. Xu, have you told anyone about the content of Mr. Bex's conversation with you last night?"

Lao Xu said: "Yes, Mr. Bex mentioned something at the cocktail party last night. I told this matter to the investment department within the group."

The ICBC employee seemed to understand: "So, is this the leak that Mr. Bex mentioned?" Lao Xu argued: "He himself asked me to report this matter to the group, not to mention before the meeting last night , I did not receive any confidentiality request about that cocktail party."

Another ICBC employee next to him said: "Last night's cocktail party was just a social business event. There should be nothing that needs to be kept secret internally."

As he said this, everyone looked at the bald head again, but at this moment he was still calm and said: "No, the verbally conveyed information did not contain any commercial secrets. What was really leaked was some information from Goldman Sachs and ICBC. business cooperation documents, it was leaked last night."

His translator explained the words to others, and Lao Xu shook his head: "I have never leaked this thing, and I don't know what you are talking about."

"Of course you have seen it, you are the only one who has seen it!" Bex became excited for some reason, "I handed it to you with my own hands and told you that it must be kept strictly confidential, but you turned a deaf ear to it. !”

"Is this it?" Lao Xu took out the USB flash drive, "You asked me to hand this thing over to the company, and that's what you said."

Bex pointed to the USB flash drive: "That's it, I personally handed it to you last night!"

Someone from ICBC asked: "So it is a leaked document?"

Lao Xu felt that the problem was getting bigger: "No, some of your own documents were leaked, don't you yourself know?"

Someone from ICBC said frankly: "We only know the name and the way the secret was leaked. We don't know what's inside."

Another person confirmed: "So Mr. Xu, who did you give it to? Do you know what it is?"

Lao Xu said: "I don't know what it is, but Mr. Bakers gave it to me and asked me to send it to the investment department of the group. All my actions were done at the instruction of Mr. Bakers. According to my Understand that the contents of the USB flash drive are also financial documents related to us and Goldman Sachs, which I must explain."

The person from ICBC asked again: "Mr. Bakers, is this true?"

"Yes." said the big bald man.

"Oh..." The person from ICBC nodded, "Then can you allow us to check this USB flash drive? It's right here. We will only look at it and won't touch anything in the USB flash drive."

Lao Xu thought about it before nodding, but Xiao Chen next to him suddenly said: "No, it's almost 10 minutes, we should leave."

Lao Xu thought he was impatient: "Xiao Qin..."

"Uncle Xu, since Uncle Bex admits that everything is his request, then this matter has nothing to do with us. If there is anything, we can ask them to negotiate with a lawyer."

The people at ICBC didn't know why the kid was talking, but Bex didn't mind. After listening to the translator, he said seriously: "I can't doubt myself, and I won't doubt Santiago. Santiago is a good partner of Goldman Sachs."

As he spoke, he looked at Lao Xu and said, "Then I can only doubt you. I hope you will cooperate with us in checking the documents."

Xu Tao felt something was wrong when he heard it, but he was not sure what the other party meant, but Xiao Chen still said: "That won't work. Can you determine whether we have leaked secrets by looking at a USB flash drive? If you want to know what is in it, you can go Ask him himself."

Someone from ICBC explained: "This is just part of the work process. I'm really sorry. We belong to the confidentiality working group recently established by our bank. We have little experience, but we must be responsible for the business secrets of our customers and partners. Please cooperate a little bit." Let’s take a look at our work.”

Old Xu was a little confused, but Chen Qin said in his ear: "Uncle Xu, they are deliberately blackmailing us."

Lao Xu was confused: "What did you find?"

"They said we leaked trade secrets, but they didn't know what the secrets were or how they were leaked..."

Lao Xu asked in a low voice: "Are you saying they deliberately made up the charges?"

"It's possible, but have you ever heard of a word called honeypot tactics?"

"Have not heard……"

“Some companies deliberately obtain documents that are not important at all but are highly identifiable, package them as trade secrets, and then handle them with other trade secrets. If the document is leaked, you can know how it was leaked through the information path. You can go out, but you don’t have to suffer losses yourself.”

"Are you saying that what they are doing now is this 'honeypot tactic'?"

"In short, it sounds very similar. The important thing is that they did not talk about how valuable this trade secret is or how much damage it can cause them, so it is likely to have no value at all and can only be used to deal with insiders within their company, but I can’t deal with people outside.”

"Then we..."

"I don't think you need to worry about it at all, because it has no value, so even if it is really leaked by us, it has nothing to do with us, we can just leave."

When Lao Xu heard it, he felt it was true, and Xiao Qin saw clearly.

So he said directly: "No, we can't cooperate with you in any search. If you have no other questions, then we have to leave."

Bex stood at the door: "Take out the USB flash drive and let the bank people check it and let you go."

Lao Xu stood up: "At least tell me where the content I leaked is."

"Goldman Sachs' information processing center has collected relevant information, and we have sufficient evidence," Bakers said.

"If you have evidence, bring it out." Lao Xu refused to give in and looked directly at him. "Although we are just an Internet company, we have always complied with the laws and regulations of all countries. You can't scare us, Mr. Bakers."

As he said that he was leaving with Xiao Chen, Bex really had nothing to say.

But at this moment, the people in the confidentiality team still disagreed: "Mr. Xu, please cooperate with our work."

Xu Tao was helpless: "I have said everything I should say. Since the source of the leak is Goldman Sachs, you should communicate with Goldman Sachs, or go to the legal counsel of my company. If you want to detain me, I need a more defensible one." reason."

"Reason... I'm sorry, we really don't have one, but we have a search warrant." The rough man took out a small black book and said with a wry smile, "Don't be nervous, our event is just a drill, out of international considerations , we are building various new organizational departments to deal with various situations, but this time our marked files did fall into your hands, so we need you to do some cooperation, at least hand over the USB disk."

Lao Xu took a deep breath. He vaguely understood what the big bald man was doing, but he seemed to be still a little short of the answer.

At this moment, Xiao Chen pulled his arm again, and then asked in his ear: "Uncle Xu, what's in the USB flash drive?"

Lao Xu suddenly knew what was going on. He glanced at Bex standing next to him. The bald man was not in good spirits today, but there seemed to be a smile at the corner of his mouth. His plan had succeeded.

Lao Xu whispered: "There are several documents in the USB disk. I didn't look at it carefully, but one of them seems to be related to our company..."

At this moment, Bex's translator came up and handed a document to the leader of the confidentiality team. The leader looked at it and scratched his head: "Oh yes, just sign this confidentiality document first. On the one hand, to ensure You are voluntarily accepting the investigation, and on the one hand, we will not leak all the contents of the USB flash drive."

Old Xu felt it was getting more and more difficult, and Xiao Chen hurriedly asked in his ear: "Uncle Xu, what are the documents related to your company?"

Galaxy Software had been keeping information confidential the year before last. Lao Xu was aware of this. After sending the files yesterday, he put away the USB flash drive without looking at it more: "I don't know, I didn't look carefully last night... …”

"Think carefully, it's too late."

Lao Xu was so anxious that he spoke without hesitation, and subconsciously said to Xiao Chen: "It seems to be related to investment, it seems to be a red water fund or something, I don't understand..."

Xiao Chen's voice seemed to have a certain undoubted flavor. This feeling was very familiar. At this moment, he said to him in his ear: "Then if it's just a USB flash drive, it shouldn't matter. Just show it to them."

(End of this chapter)