The "domestic" Hongxin browser was slapped in the face, and its founder won the "most audacious in history" award

In order to protect national security, we are stepping up efforts to develop domestically produced chips and operating systems. In the past two days, a domestically produced browser "Redcore" has emerged, which has just raised 250 million yuan. It claims to have broken the US monopoly and has China's first independently innovated smart browser kernel. Doesn't it sound amazing?

Most of the mainstream browsers in the world currently have their own kernels, such as Microsoft IE browser kernel Trident, Google Chrome browser kernel Blink, Apple Safari kernel Webkit, and Firefox browser kernel Gecko.

Many browsers currently used by Chinese people, such as 360, Baidu, Sogou, etc., all use the Blink kernel of Google Chrome browser.

According to public information, the main business of the company to which Hongxin Browser belongs covers high-end manufacturing, energy, transportation infrastructure, finance, government military industry and other industries. Next, Hongxin will create a safe work portal for 100 million people based on the independently developed domestic browser kernel technology "Hongxin Redcore" and Hongxin Browser.

Leifeng.com found that the official website’s introduction to the founder stated that he was a core developer of IE browser at Microsoft headquarters.

The official website introduces the browser as follows (the official website cannot be opened at present): Hongxin Browser has an intelligent authentication engine, rendering engine, and management engine, and also has a powerful "national secret communication protocol" that supports unified management and remote control.

According to Sina.com, Hongxin's financing is endorsed by many well-known investors. In addition to strategic investments in Hongxin's target industry markets (listed companies and government clients), famous institutions such as Morningside Venture Capital, Fortune Venture Capital, and IDG Capital continue to follow up with investments.

With the endorsement of well-known investment institutions, a founder with an impressive resume, and huge market demand, Hongxin's future seems bright.

However, just as the huge amount of financing was reported by various media, Leiphone.com (official account: Leiphone.com) discovered that someone had downloaded the Windows version of the Redcore browser installation package and discovered a jaw-dropping fact - many of the settings of the Redcore browser are similar to those of Google Chrome, and the directory structure of the installation files is also very similar. The properties of the installation program Redcore.exe even show as Chrome.

▲Photo source: Xiaosheng Bibi

After clicking in, it turned out to be all Chrome files~

▲Photo source: Xiaosheng Bibi

The complete process is as follows.

▲Photo source: Xiaosheng Bibi

Moreover, the netizen also discovered that its version number was the outdated 49.1.2623.213, while the latest version of Chrome was already v69.0.3493.3. . . .

This is really speechless, the counterfeiting is so crudely made~

A highly praised answer on Zhihu may represent the views of many netizens:

Hanxin counterfeiters also know how to polish, and only need to deal with the above inspections, and are not open to the public.

This is a very low-level fraud. They just changed the launcher and the entry parameters and dared to release it to deceive people. I'm afraid they are used to seeing the idiots in the upper echelons and think that the public is so easy to fool.

Ironically, Leifeng.com discovered that its founder Chen Benfeng was awarded the "Most Audacious Award in History" for his technological innovation when he worked at Microsoft in 2015. It seems that this award is well-deserved.

Currently, the top three search results for Chen Benfeng on Baidu are as follows:

Reference source: Whispering , Man's Nest