Chen Yuan was an employee at Apple China's branch office, responsible for reviewing vulnerability reports for the iOS operating system.
In Chen Yuan's opinion, the higher-ups had really given him an easy job.
As the world's leading consumer electronics giant, Apple not only possessed formidable hardware design capabilities, but was also unquestionably among the very best in software development.
The iOS system was undoubtedly the finest demonstration of Apple's software development prowess. Although it had emerged at almost the same time as Google's Android system, iOS overwhelmingly outperformed Android in both performance and security, becoming the world's most popular mobile operating system.
Of course, no product was perfect. Chen Yuan knew that the iOS system did indeed have vulnerabilities, so in addition to having a dedicated team within the company responsible for detecting iOS vulnerabilities, Apple, like foreign internet giants such as Facebook and Google, had launched its own public vulnerability reporting reward program—the "White Knight Program."
However, China's independent technology enthusiasts were significantly less capable than their European and American counterparts when it came to vulnerability detection.
Since the White Knight Program had also been implemented in China in 2015, only forty or fifty iOS vulnerabilities had been reported and discovered in China so far, and most of them were merely strange little flaws that did not affect system stability.
By comparison, seven or eight high-risk vulnerabilities alone had been reported overseas just last year.
As a result, Chen Yuan's job was practically no different from getting paid to sit around. Aside from being busy for a while whenever the complaints department forwarded a vulnerability report email to him, he spent most of his time daydreaming and playing little games.
Just then, Chen Yuan opened Chess for the third time that day, intending to try out a chess manual