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The FBI was the top intelligence agency in Lijian Province. It had a wide range of powers.
The FBI had the authority and jurisdiction to deal with cases as small as ordinary domestic murder cases and as big as tracking down transnational criminal groups.
If Shi Lei hadn't mentioned racial discrimination when he hacked into the Lijian Province's Internet Entertainment Review Department, then the FBI wouldn't have paid attention to a normal hacking incident.
Shi Lei had mentioned racial discrimination on purpose. Shi Lei had done it on purpose to attract the FBI's attention. Then, he would take advantage of the FBI's negligence to carry out the next step of his plan.
Shi Lei had recorded the FBI's confirmation of the "culprit" who had hacked into the Internet Entertainment Review Department. He had also recorded the evidence that he had hacked into the main servers of Neowiz and Smilegate.
Of course, it wasn't Shi Lei's real identity. It was a fake identity of a Lijian Province hacker to lead the problem back to the Lijian Province.
The two chains of evidence that Shi Lei had kept and handled would fully prove that the FBI had made a big mistake. If they were to release it, it would be a disgrace to the FBI.
Shi Lei had kept the two chains of evidence because he wanted to teach the FBI a lesson. He wasn't keeping them for fun.
As long as the two chains of evidence were released, the FBI would definitely fly into a rage out of humiliation and look for the culprit. And the culprit would naturally be Shi Lei.
But could Shi Lei be discovered by the FBI?
If Shi Lei went head to head with the FBI, even if he was at a disadvantage, Shi Lei would definitely be discovered by the FBI.
This didn't mean that the FBI could destroy IWN's secret network and Infinite Defense System. It meant that the FBI could call for reinforcements at any time.
The FBI wasn't the only intelligence agency in Lijian Province. As long as the FBI held onto Shi Lei's data and thought that Shi Lei was a big fish, then the FBI would contact its "brother organization", the CIA, in a very short time.
The style of the CIA was different from that of the FBI. If the FBI was described as more approachable and friendly, then the CIA's attitude would be extremely bad. Whether it was internally or externally, the CIA's style was more unyielding.
The FBI, the FBI, and the CIA were working together. They posed a huge threat to Shi Lei.
If Shi Lei wasn't careful, he would fall into the hands of the two intelligence agencies in Lijian Province.
There was an even worse situation. As long as Shi Lei resisted the joint attack of the FBI and the CIA for a little while, then the FBI and the CIA would ask for help from their boss, the National Security Agency in Lijian Province.
The National Security Agency in Lijian Province was at least five times more powerful than the FBI and the CIA combined.
In many movies and TV dramas in Lijian Province, the FBI and the CIA often appeared in the scenes. Some of the villains were even played by these two intelligence agencies.
However, the NSA only appeared in movies and TV dramas a handful of times!
As the top intelligence agency in Lijian Province, the NSA's authority was so great that even movies and TV dramas didn't dare to defame them, in case they accidentally fell into the trap of "interfering with national security."
Since the FBI was so dangerous, why did Shi Lei want to provoke the FBI?
The reason Shi Lei wanted to provoke the FBI was very simple. He wanted to use the FBI to help him achieve some goals.
In the words of Xia Xia, it was killing with a borrowed knife.
The "person" Shi Lei wanted to kill was the Washington Post!
This newspaper was considered a semi-official newspaper in Lijian Province. The relationship between the Washington Post and Dream Entertainment was very unfriendly. It could even be said that they were like fire and water.
The Washington Post repeatedly promoted the "Dream Entertainment Threat Theory." They believed that when Dream Entertainment took full control of AMD, Lijian Province's national security would be threatened!
This kind of talk made Shi Lei very angry. However, Shi Lei didn't want to directly invade the Washington Post's server or official website. He didn't want to be taken seriously.
In view of this situation, Shi Lei came up with a good idea, which was to anger the FBI and the FBI. He wanted the FBI to investigate the "mastermind," and then push the Washington Post to be the "scapegoat."
As the mouthpiece of the Lijian Province's government, the Washington Post often helped the Lijian Province's government to publish things that were inconvenient for them to say.
In other words, if the Washington Post took the initiative to "expose" the FBI's mistake, the FBI would not suspect that someone was trying to frame the Washington Post. They would only think that some high-ranking official in the Lijian Province's government was dissatisfied with them and took the opportunity to blackmail them.
Shi Lei sorted out his thoughts in his heart and began to act.
In Lijian Province, the official website of the Internet Entertainment Review Department was restored by the FBI.
At the same time, the FBI released an explanation for the intrusion on their official website.
The FBI's External Liaison Department issued a notice to the South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neowiz, and Smilegate. The FBI hoped that Neowiz and Smilegate would give a clear explanation.
Otherwise, the FBI wouldn't mind suing the two South Korea companies through the International Court of Justice. They would make them pay an astronomical amount of compensation and publicly apologize to the world.
After Shi Lei read the FBI's announcement on the screen of server number one, the smile on his face grew wider. He muttered to himself, "If you don't seek death, you won't die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Lei connected to a temporary high-performance server in Lijian.
Using this server as a base, Shi Lei easily broke into the backend system of the Washington Post's official website without even using the IWN Secret Network's resources.
The network defenses of news media were always so weak, because Shi Lei was the world's top hacker. Normal network defenses were completely useless to Shi Lei!
Shi Lei hacked into the backend of the Washington Post's official website. He didn't do any damage, but simply described the evidence that he had just saved in the form of a news broadcast.
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"The FBI's Big Mistake!"
The FBI is a bunch of good-for-nothings. Every year, the taxpayers spend countless dollars. But what did they do?
Our Online Entertainment Review Department's official website was hacked by a racist hacker. The FBI's idiots actually traced the hacker to two online game developers in South Korea.
Oh, my God!
It had to be said that the FBI was an idiot. Did they not have brains?
Although the hacker who hacked into the Online Entertainment Review Department's website left behind a message that sounded like a South Korean, how could the FBI's elites not discover such an obvious framing?
The Washington Post received an anonymous piece of evidence. This evidence clearly shows that the hacker who hacked into the Online Entertainment Review Department was definitely not from South Korea. He was a local hacker in Lijian Province.
Please, the FBI's idiots. I hope that this time, you can use the evidence provided by us to catch those damn racist hackers!
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Shi Lei posted this report on the Washington Post's official website. It was immediately reposted by related forums and other media organizations.
Everyone in the Lijian Province's media industry knew about the relationship between the Washington Post and the Lijian Province's government.
After Shi Lei hacked into the Washington Post, he no longer cared about the situation in Lijian Province.
Shi Lei didn't like to stay up late. The Lijian Province's plan had been executed. Now, all he had to do was wait for it to spread.
Not long after Shi Lei went to bed, the FBI's huge mistake was spread in Lijian Province. Everyone, from the Lijian Province's government officials to the ordinary citizens of Lijian Province, knew about the FBI's mistake.
The FBI's Federal Bureau of Investigation was as angry as Shi Lei had predicted!
As the Lijian Province's most powerful intelligence organization, the FBI had a lot of power. Even though the Washington Post and the Lijian Province's government were inextricably linked, the FBI was still dissatisfied with the Washington Post. They had directly broadcasted the news without notifying them.
In the past, whenever the Washington Post received news about a scandal involving the FBI or the CIA, it would definitely notify these two intelligence organizations in advance.
It would definitely not be like this time, where the scandal was directly reported.
The FBI's Federal Bureau of Investigation's director, Simon Beck, didn't give any clear instructions after hearing about this incident. However, the Cybercrime Department's assistant director, Adler Cote, had received enough hints to let him eliminate the impact of this incident.
The FBI's prestige was inviolable. If it was their boss, the NSA, who did this, the FBI could still swallow their anger and accept it.
However, a mere Washington Post, what right did they have to criticize the great FBI?
In order to eliminate the impact of this incident, the assistant director of the Cybercrime Department, Adler Cote, didn't plan to directly communicate with the Washington Post.
Since the Washington Post had chosen to directly cause trouble for the FBI, what was the point of communicating with them?
Adler Cote thought of a very good idea, a bad idea that was completely in line with Shi Lei's wishes …
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