【英语语言学习】网络隐私安全性

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

 

The leaks this month by former NSA contractor¹ Edward Snowden revealed just how widespread government surveillance of phone and online information actually is. The revelations of the government's PRISM program have been raising the concerns about privacy, but also have boom to companies that promise greater privacy online.

 

Emma Jacobs of member station WHYY in Philadelphia has this report.

 

EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE²: Mark Randall stands out front of the bustling³ Apple store in downtown Philadelphia. Apple is among the companies the government has asked to hand over data. He is not super tech savvy⁴ but also uses other services on the list cooperating with the government.

 

MARK RANDALL: Yeah, I've used Google, YouTube, I'm on Dropbox with some items now and they're set to join, correct?

 

JACOBS: Yeah.

 

Randall isn't happy about the PRISM program. Still, he hasn't tried to change his online routine.

 

RANDALL: Had you grabbed me in the 60s, I'm sure I would have been much more activist⁵.

 

JACOBS: There are quite a lot of tools Internet users can choose from for greater online privacy, from software that encrypt your web browsing⁶ to others that block third party ad services from following you around the Internet.

 

Once news of the secret government program broke, many of those companies immediately saw their traffic start going up.

 

GABRIEL WEINBERG: That first week of after the story broke, every day broke our record.

 

JACOBS: Gabriel Weinberg founded DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine, which does not keep its users' search history.

 

WEINBERG: So when you do a search on anything, your computer automatically sends information over about itself. Well, what we do is literally⁷ just throw it out.

 

JACOBS: DuckDuckGo looks like your classic tech startup, with bright yellow beanbag chairs and an employee's large dog under a desk. It has just 20 employees. But, as of end of day Thursday, traffic to the company's site had grown more than 60 percent.

 

WEINBERG: And to put that in perspective, it took us 435 days to get from one million to two million searches a day and only eight days to go from two to three million.

 

JACOBS: That's still a small number. Google users log about a billion searches a day.

 

And Weinberg can't offer absolute privacy. It all depends on whether the sites you visit have secure or encrypted versions. Non-encrypted sites would still show up in your Internet service provider's records.

 

KASHMIR HILL: That's the thing about the that way tech works.

 

JACOBS: Kashmir Hill covers online privacy for Forbes on her blog The Not-so Private Parts. She spoke⁸ via Skype, which the government has also asked to supply user data. She says real privacy is doable but complicated.

 

HILL: We're often interacting with lots of different technology companies at once, so this is where it's not just one privacy tool that you can use that solves your problem. Usually you need to use a whole suite⁹ of tools.

 

JACOBS: Because of that, she thinks the honeymoon¹⁰ period of growth for DuckDuckGo and others like it won't last forever.

 

HILL: I just don't think that many people are going to adopt these tools unless it's really easy.

 

JACOBS: Outside the Philadelphia Apple store, Mark Randall agrees with her.

 

RANDALL: I still can't send an attachment¹¹.

 

JACOBS: Randall says he prefers to keep things simple - to log right on to his computer and know where he's going.

 

RANDALL: Certain habits die hard and I am not of the - born into the computer age. So when I get comfortable with something, change is really difficult.

 

JACOBS: And it's likely to stay that way, at least for now.

 

For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Philadelphia.

 

MONTAGNE: This is NPR News.

1 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 bustling   

adj.喧闹的

参考例句：

• The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
• This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。

4 savvy   

v.知道，了解；n.理解能力，机智，悟性；adj.有见识的，懂实际知识的，通情达理的

参考例句：

• She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
• Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？

5 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

6 browsing   

v.吃草( browse的现在分词 )；随意翻阅；（在商店里）随便看看；（在计算机上）浏览信息

参考例句：

• He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

10 honeymoon   

n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月

参考例句：

• While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
• The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。

11 attachment   

n.附属物，附件；依恋；依附

参考例句：

• She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
• She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。