时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

Anchor: The Internet now. We use it for practically everything, but when it was designed and began growing into what it is now, one little detail was left out to the architecture, virtually no built-in security. So could a new Internet and almost wholesale 1 redesign solve the problem? Is that even possible now? In a FOX report from Molly Line.

Molly Line: You order plane tickets, movie tickets. Pay your bills all online.

It's taking over pretty much everything we do in entertainment and business and communication.

Molly Line: But hackers 2 and viruses have programmers on the defence, leading some experts to argue that we face a collapse 3 of internet stability and security. They say a revolution is needed.

When we built the internet over the last 30 or 40 years, we did not incorporate security. The fundamental protocols 4 that make up the internet and make it work don't have any security.

Molly Line: As a result, the internet is a treasure-trove for criminals. Blackmail 5, ID theft, organized crime becoming more common online. The activity is monitored here at ACMI, wherein massive globe shines a light on billions of internet users.

Now our job is to try to make the internet work.

Molly Line: The Cambridge Company specializes in keeping online business up and running. They are the first responders fighting the hackers and worms, a job with no end.

Molly Line: American businesses spend billions of dollars a year just trying to protect their products. Firewalls, antivirus software - these patch methods are working for now, but internet experts argue that all the quick fixes will just complicate 6 the problem.

Molly Line: MIT's David Clark, an early internet architect says:

David Clark: Every time you put a fix into the system, you have to make sure that the fix is compatible with all your other fixes, and it's a well-known phenomenon that you put in one fix and it breaks something else, so you put in a fix and it creates yet a new vulnerability.

Molly Line: So what's the solution? Start from scratch?

David Clark: If we've been trying to solve the problem incrementally 7 for 15 years, maybe what we have to do is go back and revisit some of our fundamental assumptions.

Molly Line: Clark argues for redesign, creating a new internet where trust is assured, the clean slate 8 approach. He is not alone. The National Science Foundation is exploring the idea. Ultimately, there is no easy solution.

David Clark: If there was a magic bullet, we would have fired it already.

Molly Line: In Boston, Molly Line, FOX News.



1 wholesale
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
2 hackers
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 );私自存取或篡改电脑资料者,电脑“黑客”
  • They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒,他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面,他们最终同意了。 来自互联网
3 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
4 protocols
n.礼仪( protocol的名词复数 );(外交条约的)草案;(数据传递的)协议;科学实验报告(或计划)
  • There are also protocols on the testing of nuclear weapons. 也有关于核武器试验的协议。 来自辞典例句
  • Hardware components and software design of network transport protocols are separately introduced. 介绍系统硬件组成及网络传输协议的软件设计。 来自互联网
5 blackmail
n.讹诈,敲诈,勒索,胁迫,恫吓
  • She demanded $1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
  • The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。
6 complicate
vt.使复杂化,使混乱,使难懂
  • There is no need to complicate matters.没有必要使问题复杂化。
  • These events will greatly complicate the situation.这些事件将使局势变得极其复杂。
7 incrementally
adv.逐渐地
  • Incrementally update the shared dimensions used in this cube. 增量更新此多维数据集中使用的共享维度。 来自互联网
  • Grand goals are inspiring, but be sure to approach them incrementally. 辉煌的目标令人鼓舞,但一定要逐步实现。 来自互联网
8 slate
n.板岩,石板,石片,石板色,候选人名单;adj.暗蓝灰色的,含板岩的;vt.用石板覆盖,痛打,提名,预订
  • The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
  • What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢?
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cold atmospheric leaching
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Mututu
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Rhododendron aganniphum
rickson
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