Hogging the Limelight

The manufacturers, scientists, and technicians in attendance had been watching the events unfold in utter bafflement, but now they erupted into raucous laughter. They could not help it.

The Americans had messed up, big time. How ridiculous and shameless of them to have claimed that they had cracked the password, when it had already been made public for a good 15 minutes!

Even if the Americans had actually cracked it by themselves, they could no longer prove it. They should have swallowed their pride and kept quiet.

Instead, they had offered themselves up for a very public smackdown.

"How do we know they cracked it? Maybe they just copied the password…"

"Copied it? Plagiarized it, you mean!"

Gu Nianzhi quickly posted all that had happened to social media, using an anonymous account.

All at once, satirists from all over the globe pounced upon this piece of juicy news; they began to ridicule the US and their "cracking" methods.